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Justice for Me and the Bean.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

just absolutely awful, farewell to pedal steel innovator susan alcorn. i interviewed her almost exactly 5 years ago, one of the forerunners of the avant-pedal steel explosion. gracious & inspiring. www.npr.org/2020/01/07/7...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

It’s genuinely impressive how ill-prepared this party is for the next however many years. And it still boggles the mind that they snuffed out the most potent messaging they’ve had in a very, very long time.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

love you, Marianne. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-r...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

New Alabaster on repeat. The man’s tone still blows my mind. Very Lester! youtu.be/bWXRynHpySo?...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

MORE GARTH (4:33) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBq...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

GARTH www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yprt...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I think the greatest movie that we'll never get to see is: shadowy black ops agents repeatedly attempting to murder Clark Kent, because he's breaking a huge story about tech-adjacent, governmental corruption, and repeatedly (ludicrously) failing, because they have no idea he's Superman

submitted 32 days ago • 81 comments

This is a good order! Also, I love falling asleep to nearly anything from David Lynch. It took 4 months for me to finish Twin Peaks The Return because I would watch it late at night and I would have to consistently restart episodes or figure out where I really left off (which is a fool's errand!)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Rewatched the ending to The Straight Story this morning and it will never not get to me: youtu.be/SfGeYdOeh3w?...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

just said "frankfully" out loud.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

that's my, himbo!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The worst part about writing at 530am (i.e, the only hour I can steal most days) is that once I start feeling limber I have to stop what I’m doing and get the kids ready for school and start working.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I am so fucking sick of being surrounded by these people.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

This but each season is an article end to end, with each episode including a B story about an individual article begun & ended that episode. Sometimes quality work, sometimes a flub, & sometimes the flub is dangerous.

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Just signed up for my first ultramarathon, Jesus Fucking Christ. Cayuga Trails, here I come. www.rednewtracing.com/cayuga-trails

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Read in 2024: (was hoping I could get to around 20 books this year, but this will do considering all the working and family-ing and running) Maus - Art Spiegelman Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel Foe - Iain Reid Lila - Marilynne Robinson Liberation Day - George Saunders Silo - Hugh Howley

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

2024 was lousy in ways I don’t know how to articulate and there’s plenty I’m doing to address the shitty stuff. That said, if I do have resolutions for the upcoming year they are: 1. I am writing a book 2. I will listen to more Wu-Tang when running

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Get thee to a dubbery

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Every holiday break, when I finally have a few hours to read or just fuck off how I choose to, brings me closer to the idea that we’re not supposed to live this way and that we exist in an impossible and exhausting system.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a Christmas gift months in the making: an RF rip of the greatest magic special in history. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, directed by David Mamet, never released on home video, sourced from an internal HBO Production tape sourced by @pulsingcinema.bsky.social: archive.org/details/rick...

submitted 63 days ago • 149 comments

I haven't gone running in 8 days and my body and brain are conspiring against me.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I stand by the idea that “Dress Sexy At My Funeral” is a primo choice when it comes to making a mixtape for your old lady. youtu.be/O41JlQxFnzo?...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

OK, I've heard enough! Here's the non-definitive and non-ordered list of the best albums of the year. Not that any of you asked: Rosali - Bite Down Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee Lankum - Live in Dublin SML - Small Medium Large David Van Auken - Dark Year Tim Heidecker - Slipping Away

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

kids today don't even know what a tastee freeze is. it's mr. beast this or post malone that. they will never know the simple pleasure of sucking on chili dogs behind a fast food franchise with the person you're going to ruin your life with because your shit town doesn't have sex ed or birth control

submitted 74 days ago • 23 comments

The REM cover we needed: youtu.be/cPXKReYqSzo?...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Evil Does Not Exist is one of the most confounding things I’ve seen in a long while and I’m amazed at how much it’s stuck with me - a perfectly confusing out of nowhere ending. Such a wonderfully weird and dark film. Nature hates us!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Dwight Yoakam is still one of the best shows I've ever seen, but boy...I'm only 10 minutes into the WTF interview and it's fascinating and insanely deep and scratches every part of the ol' music nerd brain. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

It’s so interesting to see these urgent exhortations to reestablish decorum. I have not seen evidence of a “coarsening” of American society. If anything, the opposite: I’ve seen thousands of individuals asserting their humanity and protesting the indignity of the system UHC profits from.

submitted 80 days ago • 261 comments

When my coffin is lowered or my ashes are spread on the Delaware River or some beach in Big Sur, you people better fucking play "This Is It" by Kenny Loggins (and Michael McDonald).

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

For almost 20 years I have had to explain yacht rock to my family and many friends and now I can just point at this and say see? It’s also a genuinely loving tribute and it never dips into mean spiritedness. 100 on the yachtski scale.

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

I have officially reached the age where I have no fucking clue what records I own anymore.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

"I find this whole 'the artistic output as a mere reflection of the condition’ argument highly problematic...if you succumb like Nick did, you get your history written for you, your art reduced to fatalism, and your day to day existence reduced to mythology."

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments