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Just some dude. I write songs about Zombie Queens from Outer Space.
I'm like 50/50 on whether or not the Wendy's Carvers sub-sub-plot in The Chair Company is the creators trying to fuck up IRL search engine AI algorithms.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I'm like 50/50 on whether or not the Wendy's Carvers sub-sub-plot in The Chair Company is the creators trying to fuck up IRL search engine AI algorithms.
Getting around to Stranger Things five, I had seen a bunch of people mentioning how this cast is far too old to be playing the age they’re meant to be. And honestly, the jokes didn’t even do justice to how jarring it is. They really should’ve tried to set this in 1994 or something.
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Getting around to Stranger Things five, I had seen a bunch of people mentioning how this cast is far too old to be playing the age they’re meant to be. And honestly, the jokes didn’t even do justice to how jarring it is. They really should’ve tried to set this in 1994 or something.
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Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
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They should bring back those oversized TV remotes that get struck by lightning and send you into the TV where you learn important lessons about life.
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
They should bring back those oversized TV remotes that get struck by lightning and send you into the TV where you learn important lessons about life.
Remembering the Thanksgiving when my mom was recommending a movie called The Robot and Frank, but I thought she was saying “The Robot Anne Frank.”
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Remembering the Thanksgiving when my mom was recommending a movie called The Robot and Frank, but I thought she was saying “The Robot Anne Frank.”
Holiday travel on the actual holiday, super early in the morning. I have an entire Amtrak seat to myself.
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Holiday travel on the actual holiday, super early in the morning. I have an entire Amtrak seat to myself.
new waitresses song just dropped
I fucked up making a Thanksgiving pie so bad, I tossed it & went to rebuy stuff. This guy & I had to pass 2 violently arguing women to get into the store. I said to him, "They make me feel better about freaking out earlier." "Me too!" he said. "We're all going thru it & it could be worse."
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
new waitresses song just dropped
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its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
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On national jukebox day I must come out against being able to control the jukebox from your phone, people should know who put on that awful song and you should stand there and support your taste with whole heart
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On national jukebox day I must come out against being able to control the jukebox from your phone, people should know who put on that awful song and you should stand there and support your taste with whole heart
My only real Thanksgiving hot take is that other countries should appropriate it from us.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
My only real Thanksgiving hot take is that other countries should appropriate it from us.
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Meg says we should stop arguing about pie and instead argue about the four minutes that could have been cut from Rumours to fit Silver Springs
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Meg says we should stop arguing about pie and instead argue about the four minutes that could have been cut from Rumours to fit Silver Springs
A question for something I'm doing:
With what you know right now, without looking up anything or thinking too much, would you consider the band Rancid to be a ska band?
Share please, I'd like to see as many answers as possible. Thanks!
With what you know right now, without looking up anything or thinking too much, would you consider the band Rancid to be a ska band?
Share please, I'd like to see as many answers as possible. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A question for something I'm doing:
With what you know right now, without looking up anything or thinking too much, would you consider the band Rancid to be a ska band?
Share please, I'd like to see as many answers as possible. Thanks!
With what you know right now, without looking up anything or thinking too much, would you consider the band Rancid to be a ska band?
Share please, I'd like to see as many answers as possible. Thanks!
This same doorman today stopped me to tell me that while he admits he's paying more for groceries, he's happy the US has avoiding the fate of Europe: all the migrants telling the natives how to run their countries.
WHY DOES HE DO THIS RIGHT BEFORE XMAS TIP SEASON?!?!
WHY DOES HE DO THIS RIGHT BEFORE XMAS TIP SEASON?!?!
One of the doormen in my building (yeah, I know) told me a few months ago he was voting for Trump because “Kamala let all the prisoners out of the prisons.”
Anyway, here I am, putting together the Christmas tips for the door staff.
Anyway, here I am, putting together the Christmas tips for the door staff.
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This same doorman today stopped me to tell me that while he admits he's paying more for groceries, he's happy the US has avoiding the fate of Europe: all the migrants telling the natives how to run their countries.
WHY DOES HE DO THIS RIGHT BEFORE XMAS TIP SEASON?!?!
WHY DOES HE DO THIS RIGHT BEFORE XMAS TIP SEASON?!?!
This is 100% worth your time.
...and the next! This is my chat with @johnacecil.bsky.social and @levin.bsky.social about Hair Metal...
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Reserved Recommendations Episode 74 - John Cecil and Elana Levin on Hair Metal
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November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is 100% worth your time.
It's good that I binged Death By Lightning alone. I would have paused and ACTUALLY IT WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT-ed through pretty much the whole thing.
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It's good that I binged Death By Lightning alone. I would have paused and ACTUALLY IT WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT-ed through pretty much the whole thing.
"Gen X hated The Beatles" is beyond a bizarre thing to say. The second worst thing about us is how the Boomers told us "we're cooler than you" and we largely replied "yes we agree."
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Gen X hated The Beatles" is beyond a bizarre thing to say. The second worst thing about us is how the Boomers told us "we're cooler than you" and we largely replied "yes we agree."
Caught up with the next 3 episodes and it does, thankfully, get a lot better.
I love trash and I have a LOT of love & respect for King's whole thing... but I think Welcome to Derry might be really really bad.
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Caught up with the next 3 episodes and it does, thankfully, get a lot better.
I too am feeling the pull to start with the Xmas music & decorations. But I will hold firm and refrain until next week. Otherwise I will in all probability begin to hate it before its natural cycle has ended.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I too am feeling the pull to start with the Xmas music & decorations. But I will hold firm and refrain until next week. Otherwise I will in all probability begin to hate it before its natural cycle has ended.
I loathe the use of "crack" by honkies to denote an otherwise innocent thing being addictive.
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I loathe the use of "crack" by honkies to denote an otherwise innocent thing being addictive.
Mr. Mamdani AND Mr. Cuomo's supporters use the word /for each other./ And then most conservatives use the word for both groups collectively. It's maddening.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Mr. Mamdani AND Mr. Cuomo's supporters use the word /for each other./ And then most conservatives use the word for both groups collectively. It's maddening.
NGL it really sucks that when reading anyone's opinion of Mr. Mamdani, one has to parse which of the several definitions of "liberal" is being disparagingly used.
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
NGL it really sucks that when reading anyone's opinion of Mr. Mamdani, one has to parse which of the several definitions of "liberal" is being disparagingly used.
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Colleague on Zoom: It’s all coming back to me now. Isn’t that a Meat Loaf song?
Me: Actually it’s a Celine Dion song, written by Jim Steinman, who wrote most of Meat Loaf’s songs. Meat Loaf heard that one and begged to sing it but Steinman insisted it was for a woman. Steinman also wrote for Air Su
Me: Actually it’s a Celine Dion song, written by Jim Steinman, who wrote most of Meat Loaf’s songs. Meat Loaf heard that one and begged to sing it but Steinman insisted it was for a woman. Steinman also wrote for Air Su
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Colleague on Zoom: It’s all coming back to me now. Isn’t that a Meat Loaf song?
Me: Actually it’s a Celine Dion song, written by Jim Steinman, who wrote most of Meat Loaf’s songs. Meat Loaf heard that one and begged to sing it but Steinman insisted it was for a woman. Steinman also wrote for Air Su
Me: Actually it’s a Celine Dion song, written by Jim Steinman, who wrote most of Meat Loaf’s songs. Meat Loaf heard that one and begged to sing it but Steinman insisted it was for a woman. Steinman also wrote for Air Su
I wish The Zombies had a song called "Cranberry."
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I wish The Zombies had a song called "Cranberry."
I have long been of the belief that The Bee Gees are a very November-coded act. I had no real reason for this, just a deep-seated feeling. But then I learned...
The 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack was originally released 48 years ago on November 15, 1977
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Rediscover the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Soundtrack (1977) | Tribute
Despite the backlash that the disco genre and culture was met with in the late ‘70s, the brilliance of ‘Saturday Night Fever’ is perennial.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I have long been of the belief that The Bee Gees are a very November-coded act. I had no real reason for this, just a deep-seated feeling. But then I learned...
I have been 27 years old for half my life, as of yesterday.
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I have been 27 years old for half my life, as of yesterday.