TA Inskeep (they/them)
@tainskeep.bsky.social
Queer, non-binary trans writer, reader, Hoosier, breaded pork tenderloin aficionado. #MWE for Feb, #HeatedRivalry obsessive.
“I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman
http://ohmanchester.substack.com
“I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman
http://ohmanchester.substack.com
Birthday boy Steve Perry is one of the greatest rock singers ever. Journey's GREATEST HITS, currently closing in on 900 weeks on the BILLBOARD 200, is one of the greatest rock comps ever. I wrote this appreciation almost 19 years ago and still love it.
Journey: Greatest Hits, 1989
One of the sturdiest hits comps ever
ohmanchester.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Birthday boy Steve Perry is one of the greatest rock singers ever. Journey's GREATEST HITS, currently closing in on 900 weeks on the BILLBOARD 200, is one of the greatest rock comps ever. I wrote this appreciation almost 19 years ago and still love it.
It's Steven Adler's birthday, and while Guns N' Roses aren't considered hair metal by many now, they certainly arose from that primordial ooze. An appreciation of the genre.
Pour some sugar: the best of hair metal
The best hair metal rules.
ohmanchester.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:49 PM
It's Steven Adler's birthday, and while Guns N' Roses aren't considered hair metal by many now, they certainly arose from that primordial ooze. An appreciation of the genre.
If you'd told me a month ago that my most-played song for January 2026 would be a 20-year-old single by Wolf Parade, I would've scoffed and told you how crazy you are.
But then Shane and Ilya and Scott and Kip came into my life, and well, everything changed. #heatedrivalry
But then Shane and Ilya and Scott and Kip came into my life, and well, everything changed. #heatedrivalry
January 18, 2026 at 1:50 PM
If you'd told me a month ago that my most-played song for January 2026 would be a 20-year-old single by Wolf Parade, I would've scoffed and told you how crazy you are.
But then Shane and Ilya and Scott and Kip came into my life, and well, everything changed. #heatedrivalry
But then Shane and Ilya and Scott and Kip came into my life, and well, everything changed. #heatedrivalry
How is it that this doesn't seem to get credit as, essentially, the first Afrobeats single to make a big splash in the U.S.?
French Montana - Unforgettable ft. Swae Lee
YouTube video by FrenchMontanaVEVO
youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
How is it that this doesn't seem to get credit as, essentially, the first Afrobeats single to make a big splash in the U.S.?
I just heard part of “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” for the first time and it sounds like nothing so much as “Stuck in the Middle with You.” Unexpected. 🤔
January 17, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I just heard part of “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” for the first time and it sounds like nothing so much as “Stuck in the Middle with You.” Unexpected. 🤔
“I went down to the beach and saw Kiki…”
I get earwormed with, and listen to this, a minimum of once a week.
I get earwormed with, and listen to this, a minimum of once a week.
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“I went down to the beach and saw Kiki…”
I get earwormed with, and listen to this, a minimum of once a week.
I get earwormed with, and listen to this, a minimum of once a week.
Enya is pretty goth. & this is one of my favorite cold-season albums. #NowPlaying #CDFriday (it’s Friday where Enya lives)
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Enya is pretty goth. & this is one of my favorite cold-season albums. #NowPlaying #CDFriday (it’s Friday where Enya lives)
I know that schmaltzy Cliff 🎄 records are practically a genre unto themselves these days, but I’ll always love this one.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know that schmaltzy Cliff 🎄 records are practically a genre unto themselves these days, but I’ll always love this one.
You mean there are people who *don’t* frequently get earwormed with Madonna’s Live Aid performance of “Into the Groove”?
Madonna - Into The Groove (Live Aid 1985)
YouTube video by Live Aid
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You mean there are people who *don’t* frequently get earwormed with Madonna’s Live Aid performance of “Into the Groove”?
If you'd like to see something that will -- or should -- bring you happy tears today, watch this. I don't care about the Emmys, but I definitely care about Jeff Hiller and SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, which will eventually be considered a classic.
Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series: 77th Emmy Awards
YouTube video by Television Academy
www.youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you'd like to see something that will -- or should -- bring you happy tears today, watch this. I don't care about the Emmys, but I definitely care about Jeff Hiller and SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, which will eventually be considered a classic.
Oh, my god. THIS is the kind of queer art we need now. My kingdom to see this performed.
FIGARO/FAGGOTS - Baryshnikov Arts
Based on the Novel Faggots and Other Literary Works by Larry Kramer. Inspired by the Opera Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte
baryshnikovarts.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Oh, my god. THIS is the kind of queer art we need now. My kingdom to see this performed.
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I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
Cool tip: it actually takes MORE effort to deliberately misgender someone AND it marks you as a total asshole! Pretty cool!
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
#CDFriday thanks to Wall of Sound in Seattle. $1! This was the first place I — and I suspect many Americans — first heard “Unfinished Sympathy.”
September 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#CDFriday thanks to Wall of Sound in Seattle. $1! This was the first place I — and I suspect many Americans — first heard “Unfinished Sympathy.”
Oh no, let's go: the charts of the summer of '84 were a *time*.
Pop Top 40: Hot 100, week ending 9/1/84
The good stuff is great, but the bad stuff...
ohmanchester.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oh no, let's go: the charts of the summer of '84 were a *time*.
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We don't need to be rallying behind Dems because they'll "protect" our democracy, we need to be pressuring Dems to RESTORE our democracy.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
August 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We don't need to be rallying behind Dems because they'll "protect" our democracy, we need to be pressuring Dems to RESTORE our democracy.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
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They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
August 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Joy and pain, as Frankie Beverly and Maze sang, are like sunshine and rain. And the R&B top 10 albums this week back in 1980 were mostly on the bright side. (Also: the *other* #1 albums of the week.)
Pop Top 40: Top Soul LPs+, week ending 8/30/80
Let’s do something different.
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Joy and pain, as Frankie Beverly and Maze sang, are like sunshine and rain. And the R&B top 10 albums this week back in 1980 were mostly on the bright side. (Also: the *other* #1 albums of the week.)
I'd MUCH rather see Pedro Pascal starring in a gay romance from Todd Haynes than Joaquin Phoenix, so this is thrilling news.
Todd Haynes’ Previously Shuttered Gay Romance ‘De Noche’ Being Revived With Pedro Pascal Circling – The Dish
Todd Haynes' gay romance De Noche, which shut down about a year ago, is being revived, with Pedro Pascal circling.
deadline.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I'd MUCH rather see Pedro Pascal starring in a gay romance from Todd Haynes than Joaquin Phoenix, so this is thrilling news.
How fucking good does this look, wow.
1985: The Miracle Year
Hüsker Dü. Live. 1985. Need we say more? Witness the transcendent Minneapolis punk trio tearing into the most incendiary year of its existence, captured live on stage at First Avenue in perhaps the hi...
numerogroup.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How fucking good does this look, wow.
I voted for Newsom for Mayor when I lived in SF. I voted for him for Lt Gov, twice. I voted for him for Gov of California. But I WILL NOT and CANNOT vote for him again, as he's completely gone off the anti-trans deep end. And cis/het folks, you shouldn't either, if you call yourselves allies.
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I voted for Newsom for Mayor when I lived in SF. I voted for him for Lt Gov, twice. I voted for him for Gov of California. But I WILL NOT and CANNOT vote for him again, as he's completely gone off the anti-trans deep end. And cis/het folks, you shouldn't either, if you call yourselves allies.
WGCI, August 1986: hotter than ever. Airchecks and a playlist included in my latest "Radio Romance" column.
Radio Romance: WGCI, Power 107.5 Chicago, late August 1986
Are we jammin' the box or what?
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
WGCI, August 1986: hotter than ever. Airchecks and a playlist included in my latest "Radio Romance" column.
Summer '83 on the charts was absolutely golden, and this proves it.
Pop Top 40: Hot 100, week ending 8/27/83
Peak "greatest year in pop" ever
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Summer '83 on the charts was absolutely golden, and this proves it.
In 2005, Madonna released her last best album, which I reviewed for STYLUS, doing the same for its corresponding live album in '07. Because it's her birthday tomorrow, here are both reviews, newly republished.
Madonna: Confessions on a Dance Floor / The Confessions Tour, 2005 / 2007
Her last truly great album and its ensuing tour document, also great
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In 2005, Madonna released her last best album, which I reviewed for STYLUS, doing the same for its corresponding live album in '07. Because it's her birthday tomorrow, here are both reviews, newly republished.
Cardi B's new Jay-Z-interpolating single is killing me today. So so good. So ready for her new album next month, FINALLY.
Cardi B - Imaginary Playerz [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Cardi B
www.youtube.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cardi B's new Jay-Z-interpolating single is killing me today. So so good. So ready for her new album next month, FINALLY.
Tomorrow's the birthday of pop's queen of the past 45 years, Madonna -- and even more than pop, she's been the real queen of the dancefloor. An appreciation, with some caveats.
Remixing it up SPECIAL: Madonna: Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, 2022
Celebrating a record-setting tenure on the dance charts
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Tomorrow's the birthday of pop's queen of the past 45 years, Madonna -- and even more than pop, she's been the real queen of the dancefloor. An appreciation, with some caveats.