George Grella
@gtra1n.bsky.social
Write/edit about music & stuff all over the place, amazing taste, hard core values. Prolly only person to play CBGB and write about opera for the FT. Edit Brooklyn Rail music section, kickass newsletter: killyridols.substack.com
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Coming out April 30, 2026: preorder now! Links and more at the link! (new post with updated publication date)
Minimalist Music: The Book open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...
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Newsom and Shapiro in a steel cage death match race to the bottom, Rham chasing behind whining that the big boys should let him play too.
Josh Shapiro can go fuck himself. So goddamn tired of this self-absorbed empty suit.
January 31, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Newsom and Shapiro in a steel cage death match race to the bottom, Rham chasing behind whining that the big boys should let him play too.
He's not going to, and if he did I don't think he'd be that good in the role, but I would vote for this man in a heartbeat and would never vote for a snake and a liar like Newsom
January 31, 2026 at 4:35 AM
He's not going to, and if he did I don't think he'd be that good in the role, but I would vote for this man in a heartbeat and would never vote for a snake and a liar like Newsom
Music, paintings, poetry, films, TV shows, these are the products of civilization and they stand again barbarism, which is the right in it's entirety and also a good number of smug, comfortable centrists
Its actually good and okay to try and find moments of joy during the horrors. Dont let anyone shame you for it.
January 31, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Music, paintings, poetry, films, TV shows, these are the products of civilization and they stand again barbarism, which is the right in it's entirety and also a good number of smug, comfortable centrists
Man, I miss Letterkenny
... and more rough stuff happens ....
January 31, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Man, I miss Letterkenny
Was actually thinking about this due to today's discourse.
Five classes you took in college
Quantum Physics
Improvisation Ensemble
Diplomacy and Espionage
History of Nuclear Weapons
20th Century American History
Five classes you took in college
Quantum Physics
Improvisation Ensemble
Diplomacy and Espionage
History of Nuclear Weapons
20th Century American History
Yeah you guys are gonna love these five classes
Elements of Music
Chemical Foundations of Atomic Theory
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Mathematical Physics
French Poetry and Prose
Elements of Music
Chemical Foundations of Atomic Theory
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Mathematical Physics
French Poetry and Prose
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Values, Technology and Society
Art and the Transatlantic Exchange
Petroleum Engineering
Poetry Writing
Marxist Philosophy (I barely scraped out a C!)
Values, Technology and Society
Art and the Transatlantic Exchange
Petroleum Engineering
Poetry Writing
Marxist Philosophy (I barely scraped out a C!)
January 31, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Was actually thinking about this due to today's discourse.
Five classes you took in college
Quantum Physics
Improvisation Ensemble
Diplomacy and Espionage
History of Nuclear Weapons
20th Century American History
Five classes you took in college
Quantum Physics
Improvisation Ensemble
Diplomacy and Espionage
History of Nuclear Weapons
20th Century American History
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You love to see it.
January 31, 2026 at 2:42 AM
You love to see it.
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Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
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btw the "New York Attorney General" mentioned in the Xbox email would have been none other than Eric Schneiderman, years before he resigned in disgrace for also being a reported sex pest bsky.app/profile/timd...
Wild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him
January 31, 2026 at 12:55 AM
btw the "New York Attorney General" mentioned in the Xbox email would have been none other than Eric Schneiderman, years before he resigned in disgrace for also being a reported sex pest bsky.app/profile/timd...
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I went to the last place that federal agents would look for me
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I went to the last place that federal agents would look for me
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How is Melania the only person with a bespoke font in the Epstein Files?
oh my god
January 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
How is Melania the only person with a bespoke font in the Epstein Files?
Bingo.
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 31, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Bingo.
A cultural legacy of the invasion of Iraq in the hands of another legacy of the GWOT: militarized secret racial police and the FBI as religious police. Now I'll listen quietly to Ezra Klein who supported the invasion and has failed upward, while those who were right are ignored by the establishment
January 31, 2026 at 12:27 AM
A cultural legacy of the invasion of Iraq in the hands of another legacy of the GWOT: militarized secret racial police and the FBI as religious police. Now I'll listen quietly to Ezra Klein who supported the invasion and has failed upward, while those who were right are ignored by the establishment
If it was in my power I would force everyone who gets paid to write political opinions to memorize every word Walt Whitman wrote. Especially this: "Behold the received models of the parlors — / What are they to me?"
That's your right and duty as an American citizen
That's your right and duty as an American citizen
January 30, 2026 at 11:08 PM
If it was in my power I would force everyone who gets paid to write political opinions to memorize every word Walt Whitman wrote. Especially this: "Behold the received models of the parlors — / What are they to me?"
That's your right and duty as an American citizen
That's your right and duty as an American citizen
e.g. Klein and Nichols get to cover cultural things and are at very best entirely amateurish and deeply uninformed on them. But because of their prestigious positions, Klein gets to interview Eno, and Nichols writes about TV shows, when people who offer much more to the public never get the chance
The counterpoint is that it's useful to shout down dull, mediocre, predictable opining primarily meant to promote and preserve the prestige of the establishment class, because like Schumer/Jeffies they're more concerned with managing their own status in changing times then opposing fascism.
"The Sarah Lawrence kids are showing their toughness and street-fightin' cred by shouting down a newspaper columnist" is one hell of a take, and totally gives me faith that we can resist an authoritarian takeover from far more dangerous people
January 30, 2026 at 10:58 PM
e.g. Klein and Nichols get to cover cultural things and are at very best entirely amateurish and deeply uninformed on them. But because of their prestigious positions, Klein gets to interview Eno, and Nichols writes about TV shows, when people who offer much more to the public never get the chance
The counterpoint is that it's useful to shout down dull, mediocre, predictable opining primarily meant to promote and preserve the prestige of the establishment class, because like Schumer/Jeffies they're more concerned with managing their own status in changing times then opposing fascism.
"The Sarah Lawrence kids are showing their toughness and street-fightin' cred by shouting down a newspaper columnist" is one hell of a take, and totally gives me faith that we can resist an authoritarian takeover from far more dangerous people
As a SLC alumn, I'm proud of the kids and enjoying that we're clearly a lot tougher and harder than smug bourgeois centrists who expect to be heard without putting in the hard work and fight to earn it. These weak ass punks can't handle the rough and tumble speech outside their quaint parlors.
January 30, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The counterpoint is that it's useful to shout down dull, mediocre, predictable opining primarily meant to promote and preserve the prestige of the establishment class, because like Schumer/Jeffies they're more concerned with managing their own status in changing times then opposing fascism.
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"The billionaire New York City police commissioner has a billionaire cousin who got girls run to him by the world's most notorious billionaire pedophile" is a Sin City comic that was never written
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein scouted women for New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, emails show.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...
Jeffrey Epstein scouted women for New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, emails show
The emails, sent in 2013, were among more than 3 million Epstein-related documents the Department of Justice released Friday.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:09 PM
"The billionaire New York City police commissioner has a billionaire cousin who got girls run to him by the world's most notorious billionaire pedophile" is a Sin City comic that was never written
As a SLC alumn, I'm proud of the kids and enjoying that we're clearly a lot tougher and harder than smug bourgeois centrists who expect to be heard without putting in the hard work and fight to earn it. These weak ass punks can't handle the rough and tumble speech outside their quaint parlors.
Sarah Lawrence kids shouting down Ezra Klein.
Because when you're facing a fascist takeover, shouting down a liberal at a college talk is definitely the way.
Because when you're facing a fascist takeover, shouting down a liberal at a college talk is definitely the way.
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 PM
As a SLC alumn, I'm proud of the kids and enjoying that we're clearly a lot tougher and harder than smug bourgeois centrists who expect to be heard without putting in the hard work and fight to earn it. These weak ass punks can't handle the rough and tumble speech outside their quaint parlors.
If he's still alive late this year, there's going to be weeks of ranting on social media an in cabinet meetings and press "conferences" about this not getting an Oscar nomination
"A gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest" is a thought that can only exist since 2025
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
January 30, 2026 at 8:01 PM
If he's still alive late this year, there's going to be weeks of ranting on social media an in cabinet meetings and press "conferences" about this not getting an Oscar nomination
"A gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest" is a thought that can only exist since 2025
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 PM
"A gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest" is a thought that can only exist since 2025
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OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
Just as Trump has a handful of marbles in his skull and he just repeats the same-shit-different-day of which one pops up, so does editors reach for the same grab bag of clichés. Bottom line their both lazy in the way only the privileged can afford to be lazy.
"new tone" was a totally imaginary story that the media invented to try to staunch the bleeding Trump was suffering this weekend and help move past what turned out to be a completely disastrous story for the administration
so much for the ✌️”new tone”✌️
January 30, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Just as Trump has a handful of marbles in his skull and he just repeats the same-shit-different-day of which one pops up, so does editors reach for the same grab bag of clichés. Bottom line their both lazy in the way only the privileged can afford to be lazy.
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"[Bari Weiss] found a champion in Bill Maher, who would like you to think he’s Mort Sahl but is actually Vietnam-period Bob Hope with delusions of Hugh Hefner." phildyessnugent.substack.com/p/bari-weis-...
Bari Weis Doesn't Love America
America Wants to See Other People
phildyessnugent.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:43 AM
"[Bari Weiss] found a champion in Bill Maher, who would like you to think he’s Mort Sahl but is actually Vietnam-period Bob Hope with delusions of Hugh Hefner." phildyessnugent.substack.com/p/bari-weis-...
Democrats agree to fund fascism but in a strongly worded letter way.
I dearly dearly hope the primaries will be a massacre because these fuckers absolutely will not learn and need to be retired and never heard from again
I dearly dearly hope the primaries will be a massacre because these fuckers absolutely will not learn and need to be retired and never heard from again
January 30, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Democrats agree to fund fascism but in a strongly worded letter way.
I dearly dearly hope the primaries will be a massacre because these fuckers absolutely will not learn and need to be retired and never heard from again
I dearly dearly hope the primaries will be a massacre because these fuckers absolutely will not learn and need to be retired and never heard from again
There are no words for how deplorably cowardly and incompetent @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov are
If there's ever a history museum dedicated to this time period make sure this sentence gets displayed there
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 AM
There are no words for how deplorably cowardly and incompetent @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov are