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Bennett Hipp
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Trying to leave it better than I found it.

Ole Miss alum. Always go to the show. SC/VA. 🌴🌴
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I love Todd Snider’s music and deeply enjoyed the few times I got to talk with him, including one early afternoon at a music festival when we were both just wandering around. I’ll write something soon, the first opportunity I can find. But here’s a quote from a 2012 interview I did with him. RIP.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Trying to imagine being in this room and hearing Decoration Day live for the very first time. Then having to wait an entire year for the album to come out to talk to folks about DD and Outfit.

Gives me chills.

open.spotify.com/track/3cwMd8...
Decoration Day - Live at Flicker Bar - Athens, GA - June 20th, 2002
open.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For $10, you can buy Madi Diaz’s cover album of Blink 182’s Enema of the State, with all proceeds to the Defending Our Neighbors fund for immigrants and their families dealing with ICE’s bullshit.

Unsurprisingly, the tunes jam.

madidiaz.bandcamp.com/album/enema-...
Enema Of The Garden State, by Madi Diaz
12 track album
madidiaz.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Did the re-emergence of ‘Skinny Culture’ cost Cal Raleigh the AL MVP? In this column, I will…”
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Ping Pong movie is going to bang.
new Marty Supreme trailer

didn't even know you could make a movie like this in 2025
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "I have asked Josh Stein, our governor, to consider working with President Trump to allow the National Guard to come into Charlotte ... use the National Guard as a force multiplier and they can a lot of load off the Charlotte PD."
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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On Friday, Mick Fleetwood surprised fans by playing “Tusk” with the Trojan Marching Band. But Dr. Bartner, the 85-year-old band director who helped bring it to life and earned USC two platinum, albums also surprised Mick. Inside the very L.A. story of the iconic “Tusk.”
www.espn.com/college-foot...
'It's our tune': How Fleetwood Mac worked with the USC Marching Band to create 'Tusk'
The idea initially sounded so far-fetched band directors thought it was a prank. But the collaboration became a sensation.
www.espn.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Don’t let the shittiness of the world and the Democratic Party rob you of the joy that comes with Hillary Duff being back in the bops business.

open.spotify.com/album/5zv7Dv...
Mature
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I don't know the actual details of the shutdown deal but BlueSky is making it sound like the democrats just made a trade with the Rays.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I still don’t really understand this.

Kyrgios has a history of belittling women and plead guilty to physically abusing his partner. Pitting Sabalenka against him in the name of empowering women doesn’t make sense.

And if she wins, it’ll get brushed aside because he’s 652nd in the world.
The latest at Bounces, which is already generating lots of conversation there:

An interview with Stuart Duguid, the agent of Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios who is organizing their controversial “Battle of the Sexes” next month.

On risks and rewards:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/nick-kyrgi...
Battle Ready or Battle Weary?
A conversation with Stuart Duguid, organizer of the "Battle of the Sexes" between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios, on its risks and rewards.
www.benrothenberg.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Entire offseason to go, but “the Braves aim to be a top-5 payroll in baseball” and “the Braves decline to spend a combined ~$11M on 2 good relievers for next season” both doesn’t mesh and doesn’t give a ton of optimism.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Seeing a disgusting loser get his ass kicked all over New York City really makes me miss the Mets
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“When you're young and need anything to make sense, baseball makes sense.”

Got a little dusty in here this morning reading @actioncookbook.com ode to young baseball fandom and the beauty of finding the sport when we need it most growing up.

www.actioncookbook.com/it-doesnt-ma...
It doesn't make any sense
Reflecting on one of the greatest baseball games of all time, and the beauty of its madness
www.actioncookbook.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
(The NFL does not care about its fans).
If the NFL truly cares about its fans, the NFL will demand that YouTube and ESPN (two of the league's broadcast partners) allow Monday Night Football to stream tonight, with or without a Google-Disney deal.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
NFL should pressure YouTube TV, ESPN to allow MNF to stream tonight
The league has the power to squeeze Google and Disney. If it cares about its fans, it will.
www.nbcsports.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This could not be a more uninspired hire.

Status quo and an avoidance of new ideas reigns supreme.
BREAKING: The Atlanta Braves have named Walt Weiss the team's new manager
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
PANTHERS
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Rico Dowdle and the Panthers do the Key & Peele sketch for a celebration and get flagged. Dowdle insists there were only 2 pumps 😂
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Bugonia is weird and bizarre but also an absolute banger. Emma and Yorgos forever.

Jesse Plemons continues to just come in and act his ass off.
November 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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"An eleven play, 43 yard drive that yields nothing but burning six minutes off the clock"

--Tom Hart on Auburn's last drive, and on this masterpiece ofa game in general
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Happy Friday to you guys
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Snocaps (Katie & Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook) is a smash. Just a banger of a surprise album.

spotify.link/3o14nC6HUXb
Snocaps
spotify.link
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM