Sinatra’s “New York, New York” has to be the most “if you weren’t there for it, you’d assume it happened decades before it did” song of all time. I’d love an oral history of how that song retroactively aged thirty-fifty years.

“Red Right Hand” shows up in the Dexter revival, and jfc you might as well play the Monster Mash at this point.

I love how when his resting death face is called out, Cillian Murphy can only swear he’s “fine” - the subtext being that no, he definitely can imagine somewhere he’d rather be, just not with the judgmental contempt of a thousand moms he appears to show.

The grandest no-prize ever for anyone who knows what I’m referencing. Especially if you’ve seen the original movie or the related book (which I found in my college library!).

Sadly no one I know has assumed she’s jacking Asher Roth www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYx7...

A shiny no-prize to whoever catches my shout-out to the godfather of album blurbs in this latest exploration of alternative airplay chart omnipresence. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-3-pt-1...

A shiny no-prize to whoever catches my shout-out to the godfather of album blurbs in this latest exploration of alternative airplay chart omnipresence. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-3-pt-1...

I love that Lady Soul is technically a “twelfth album,” but only in a context where Taylor was kicking Aretha’s ass for the first nine rounds.

KEEP TALKING ABOUT T-SWIFT. I’ve got “T-Bone” from Neil Young’s twelfth album, Re*Ac*Tor, on repeat.

...but what I literally just learned is that the four guys dancing with him in the background? That's the Pharcyde. That's '90s hip hop group The Pharcyde, back when they were In Living Color's in-house dance crew The Fly Guys. What the fuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-mA...

I can’t decided who benefited more from reviving a lost art in the ‘90s…Eddie Vedder and baritone bellowing, or Jim Carrey and outrageous physical slapstick. Either way, the youth were UNPREPARED.

kid of about seven just asked me why I was wearing a mask. her mom tried to tell her to be quiet, but i said it was ok. i told her “when I get sick, it takes me a little longer than most people to get better. so i wear a mask, and then i don’t get sick as much!” made sense to her.

Round 3 of my search for the worst Alternative Radio God begins! One song inspired me to put “freaky” in italics. I suggest another may be a U.S. Maple tribute. One compelled me to put “Michael Stipe” and “tig ol’ bitties” in the same sentence. CURIOUS? anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-3-pt-1...

Round 3 of my search for the worst Alternative Radio God begins! One song inspired me to put “freaky” in italics. I suggest another may be a U.S. Maple tribute. One compelled me to put “Michael Stipe” and “tig ol’ bitties” in the same sentence. CURIOUS? anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-3-pt-1...

Does anyone remember LAUGHTER? Well, good, because we’re rebooting it.

Maybe she thought it would be taken as “he’s got me incapable of poetry, all I can do is gurgle mom jokes after. It’s the disappointing guys who leave me with the energy to be poignant.”

Kelce reading everybody’s takes on “Wood.”

Sounds like the “latte”/“shot-ay” may have come one album late. I was expecting this to be the return-to-niche course correction but it sure doesnt sound like thats whats up. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-brilliant...

If this was true, Zapp’s streaming numbers would be through the roof.

Should save this for the upcoming post, but - while I knew Linkin Park were fiends when it came to synthesizing earlier forms of adolescent agony & rebellion, I still wasn’t prepared for when a 4th album hit went from Simon & Garfunkel to The Flys to Chemical Brothers within one goddamn minute.

Onwards into the 00s, in search of the worst alt-radio mainstay. It’s been enlightening to discover which newer acts I actually like ok, and which older audio crimes I still can’t forgive. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-2-pt-2...

RIP. A long life that did a great deal of good & added much to the richness of the world--all one could ask for.

Onwards into the 00s, in search of the worst alt-radio mainstay. It’s been enlightening to discover which newer acts I actually like ok, and which older audio crimes I still can’t forgive. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-2-pt-2...

Such an ugly surreal situation to see both the explicit totalitarian desires of those in power, and the transparent contempt they inspire in those around them. The latter suggests the problem is surmountable, but doesn’t remotely guarantee it, or provide safety & justice for others in the moment.

I will say, of all comedians alive today, Pete Davidson seems the most likely to try and pull some Ocean’s Eleven/Fast & Furious/Inigo Montoya shit in Saudi Arabia. Not saying he will, but…if anybody would…

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

I need a word for that feeling when ads crash an article and you debate whether you’re going to try and read further or if the screen going white was god’s will

A farewell to my friend, Kaleb Horton, a great writer who died unexpectedly this past weekend.

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

"Though a young man, Kaleb was drawn to writing about old things...not in a those-were-the-good-old days sense but more like: How did this manage to stick around as long as it did?..And won’t it be sad when even memories of it have passed away?" nofencesreview.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

Catching up on newly streamable horror like The Monkey, Final Destination 6: Death Is Gonna Need A Couple Decades For This One, and Presence! Also a five year old miniseries about Charles Foster Kane’s quantum snow globe. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/deadly-deter...

Alright, now people are using someone’s death to mourn when rich pimps would fund celebrity profiles, taking a break from this app.

My appreciation of Crowe grew tenfold reading this. I can razz his work as well as anybody, all that boyish romanticism, but his enthusiasm to hear David Marchese’s two cents, consider it, and offer his own is so remarkably humble and brave.

One of the funniest things about Kaleb was when he first started getting stuff published but nobody realized how young he was, because his twitter avatar was an old cowboy Robert Duvall and he wrote like he could be an old cowboy Robert Duvall. I loved the double-take his smooth doe-eyed face got.

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

It’s one of the littlest things a guy can appreciate in life, but if you can keep the child alive inside into middle age, that kid gets to drop off a poopie at UPS in a self-addressed stamped package. Mine can’t stop giggling.

It first came up outside Little Toni’s and any time I saw him after. He had been ripping on RHCP and I asked if he’d seen this. He hadn’t, the classy millennial. I almost tried to shove my phone in his face that second. youtu.be/Mr_uHJPUlO8?...

I hadn’t seen Kaleb Horton in far too long. But when I did, I just kept telling him to create stuff without caring if it’s good enough, and that I wanted to watch him see the “Give It Away” video, which he hadn’t. Please create stuff, and watch the “Give It Away” video if you haven’t.

Trying to process the loss of @kalebhorton.bsky.social. Last time we hung out we ate at Bob’s Big Boy and chatted about The Clash at a record store. Dude was a real one. Read his work, he left one hell of a legacy but also left far too soon.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Catching up on newly streamable horror like The Monkey, Final Destination 6: Death Is Gonna Need A Couple Decades For This One, and Presence! Also a five year old miniseries about Charles Foster Kane’s quantum snow globe. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/deadly-deter...

Ok this is honestly kind of hilarious. ‘00s UK stars, trumped by a grab bag of American 90s radio & emo, trumped by Good Charlotte, trumped by Vampire Weekend, trumped by Noah Kahan. Who other than death itself could see that and nod?

When there’s a lot of hand-wringing over how Farage got elected in a little while, this will be the answer. When you ask people if they want fascism or diet fascism they’re never going to pick the low-calorie version

Rattled by how soon after waking up my brain went “someday Luca Guadagnino will remake Whatever Happened To Baby Jane with Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett.”

I just found out about this song that was performed on the daily show and had hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and none of the comments acknowledge it’s a “sex & candy” homage. You kids don’t know Marcy Playground?!?!?! youtu.be/4m3bZOljFEY

Sorry, but I must acknowledge the synchronicity of posting about One Hot Minute the same day an excellent “My Friends” joke hit Bluesky. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-2-pt-1...

Round 2, pt. 1 of my search for the worst alternative radio god, looking at 7 more singles each from 12 qualifying alternative airplay acts. From Achtung and Automatic to Americana and “Amber”! Ah, the memories. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/round-2-pt-1...

FB reels describing modern plot lines are so wild. “Extreme Nightcrawler exists in an alternate dimension where Professor X and Magneto destroyed five earths before becoming X-Galactus, forcing Nightcrawler to fuck a symbiote and use thor’s hammer to reach The League Of Hyperions on Earth-3400, wher

Realizing I’m the same age as a lot of Trump’s loudest goons is weirdly comforting. “What have you done with your life?” Well I’m not at a podium complaining our great leader’s boots aren’t wet enough. I successfully avoided that journey.