In 1969, Chicago said the clock read “25 or 6 to 4.” A year later, they asked “Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?” Being able to name the day of the week in 1972, and guessing it’s the 4th of July, rather than the Twentyleventh of Wow, was a step back to earth for these guys.

Re-reading Dance Of Days, and the way “punk” was used as a synonym for *anything* cool & righteous in the 90s is so wild. In hindsight the problem with trying to conflate a modern “cool” with timeless political virtues feels so obvious, but people were really wrestling with it non-stop!

“Splinters”

For better or worse, I’ve chosen “being honest about my media tastes” over ever plausibly getting in politics. The world ain’t ready for a leader that says “to call my Limp Bizkit CD ironic would be an oversimplification.”

When July 4th falls on a Saturday, it should be a tradition to go to a park and get so wasted you’re not completely sure if it’s the 4th of July.

I remembering filing this with “waiting for the world to change” as songs that would feel very different if Randy Newman sang them - a young girl *relieved* by the monoculture. That the city & country play the same pop hits.

I know we’re all siloed in social media, and I’m sure they’re out there, but it does crack me up that I’m only seeing whataboutisms defending liberal royalism and no one actually *enjoying* the royal wedding. Just glum “men do worse every. day.” and no “ohhh cute! The Empire State Building!”

Now I feel really embarrassed about my Jeff Bezos Eras Tour t-shirt

Jaz Coleman

I consider PA my home state, but lived in NYC and SoCal after, and the Midwest before. So other than Not Being Southern, I just fairweather identify with whatever region’s looking best.

Apparently, the wedding was almost called off because he wanted Sandler to officiate as The Waterboy, but she was like “this is my day!” And he was like “but this is why I wanted him, just one football thing” but they compromised and Sandler is gonna do “love stinks” at the reception.

They’re all gonna laugh at you, indeed

McConnell wanted to be the most powerful senate majority leader ever, an undeniable figure in the history books. Won by any means necessary, only to be pushed aside by the corrupt he empowered, his legacy forever tainted by their crimes. The Joe Paterno of politics.

A lot of people think their shit smells like flowers, but no one is more committed to the bit than Grace.

After almost 40 years, traveling with me from CO to IN to PA to NY to CA, and who knows where before I co-opted them, my parents’ complete doonesbury collection through 1980-ish (and the big Sunday book going up to the mid-Reagan sabbatical), is off to goodwill to find a bigger nerd than me.

I think often of the violence incited by quotations of “I Love, I Love , I Love My Wife (But Oh! You Kid!)”. These are people having IMMENSE FEELINGS about their relationships via song.

Been hopping around this thread on and off. If you’ve got a taste for horror stories, you should be too.

Yes!!! Yes!!! Robert Smith confirms he is officially in Andrew Watt’s circle of olds!!! My dream of Smith telling Watt he wants to get that Lovecats magic back is nigh!!!

Casting Daniel Craig as the next Bond villain was a truly inspired move.

Tonight on Tales From The Crypt, Hank Azaria, Travis Tritt and Ben Stein ask the eternal question “what do you need to make it in Hollywood: studied craft, natural magnetism or neither?”

This is my favorite thing about people who leap to defend Swift. It’s rarely a whole-hearted defense of whatever’s offending people, it’s an attempt to provide mitigating factors that make being mad about it seem petty. That she’s earned a *relative right* to do something obnoxious.

Trump’s entire life has been such a grotesque display of poetic irony at the world’s expense, not only can I imagine him blowing himself up on America’s 250th birthday, I can imagine his last words being “…The Aristocrats!”

The two biggest hits by Jane’s Addiction being 3rd Velvets album lyrics over 3rd Zep album guitars, and a novelty hook (dog barks, steel drums) is such a perfect recipe for alternative rock glory.

Realizing that, just as how the mid-80s pop charts is odd to me, as it’s between the canonical flashback lunch stuff and the bush interzone stuff I enjoyed as a kid, I’m also confused why mid-80s indie rock was so into FLANGE. You were all just flangin out in 87, all the flange.

That a billionaire renting Madison square garden for their wedding announces they’re giving 23 million to charity seems like a matter for a judge to consider once they’ve set up the guillotine. It shouldn’t influence whether we mock someone for being a billionaire who rents MSG for their wedding.

I doubt my kid has any desire to see the fireworks, so the odds are good I’ll spend July 4th hanging out with him and occasionally refreshing this app furiously as my eyebrows rise off my face.

the democrats who believe this should go be republicans. It’s far more justifiable to be a centrist republican suppressing party extremism than a centrist democrat doing likewise. But they’d lose either way, and are too vain to admit they’ve got more in common with mitt Romney than dem voters.

My inner Krusty thought today might not be the day to share this, but my inner Nimoy said NO! The world needs reminding there are good albums about carrying on in 2026. And a lot of decent dad-rock, too! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-favorite-...

Followed by the implicit threat “Can’t understand what I mean? You soon will”!

Did they ask Slash to wear The Hat while playing a radio DJ named “Hank” on Tales From The Crypt? Did he insist? Was he wearing it when he showed up on set, and no one ever suggested it come off?

The Godfather Trilogy. To quote Jack on 30 Rock: “diversity is the engine that drives this country. The first generation works their fingers to the bone making things, the next generation goes to college and innovates new ideas, the 3rd generation *pause* snowboards and takes improv classes.”

Case in point.

A less nerdy man with less time on his hands would stop watching a decades old show following a huge quality drop in season 6, but I can’t give up the search for gold. Not when even weak episodes have strip club owners who wear vests with no shirt, and stars crossing paths like ships in the night.

tfw I’ve been watching a 90s horror anthology show and there’s a sudden drop off in script quality between season 5 & 6

How To Make A Global Quilt, by Great Britain

Literally this

He was fired for screaming “Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass!” right before the vampire lady between his legs would bite him in the crotch.

It’s just so sad when you can tell filmmakers are desperate to latch onto a shred of zeitgeist. That this wasn’t comic inspiration, but execs waiting for a keyword signifying popularity and writers scrambling to think up such a keyword.

Hubristic demagogue summer!

“Am I really watching an Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge homage starring John Stamos and Frank Stallone?” You guessed it! Yes! Thanks, Tales From The Crypt!

Randomly found this on the 1984 page of the quarter-century-old Our Dumb Century while cleaning up my bookshelf today. Didn’t know about America’s “golden gift” yet, but even as someone who references Gremlins 2 in terms of public awareness of his venality, it gave me pause.

This has an obscene muscular exuberance worthy of Cruising directed by Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker. youtu.be/WCUjuVeS4oA?...

you do not have to immediately go “this will also hurt cis people” when there is transphobic legislation/law passed. y’all are not the targets and it is enough that we are like yes, that is a knockon effect and it is bad, but it is not the fucking point

*says goodbye in German* people.com/michael-byrn...

To be clear, Trump isnt smart because he keeps it at “they’re wrong, I’m right, we’re winners they’re losers.” It’s all pathetic, snide denial. But getting in the weeds mocking morality with a pretense of spiritual intellectualism is *also* NOT SMART. And it’s weirder cuz a 5 year old can’t do it.

Everybody press like on their post please thank you

anyway all of this shit insanely evil. these people are evil and their reasoning has no serious intellectual, ethical, or religious grounding, and acting like it does is absurd.

My inner Krusty thought today might not be the day to share this, but my inner Nimoy said NO! The world needs reminding there are good albums about carrying on in 2026. And a lot of decent dad-rock, too! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-favorite-...