Mike Duquette
@mikeduquette.bsky.social
Music reissue news at @theseconddisc.bsky.social, assorted culture writing at Duques-Delight.ghost.io, freelance writing at Allmusic/Observer/UltimateClassicRock/various labels of varying repute
A meeting of the minds in this great @nymag.com photo diary of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s Election Day. nymag.com/intelligence...
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A meeting of the minds in this great @nymag.com photo diary of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s Election Day. nymag.com/intelligence...
FUCK, that’s gotta go in my reactions folder I think (along with some other greats)
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
FUCK, that’s gotta go in my reactions folder I think (along with some other greats)
Why would I want to listen to AI music when humans can make this
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Why would I want to listen to AI music when humans can make this
I understand this is a little “YOUR going to the camps liberal”/“(chuckles) You’re*”—but if this is gonna be a news story, the record should show the WSJ article did NOT say Cash was uncool (a ridiculous assessment). It said he could SEEM uncool compared to Dylan or Springsteen (also ridiculous)
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I understand this is a little “YOUR going to the camps liberal”/“(chuckles) You’re*”—but if this is gonna be a news story, the record should show the WSJ article did NOT say Cash was uncool (a ridiculous assessment). It said he could SEEM uncool compared to Dylan or Springsteen (also ridiculous)
For whatever reason, I always found this guy one of the more insufferable “town criers” of Twitter, but putting that aside: none of these “sustainable” lineups have remained unchanged
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
For whatever reason, I always found this guy one of the more insufferable “town criers” of Twitter, but putting that aside: none of these “sustainable” lineups have remained unchanged
Opening up a PR firm singularly dedicated to writing bizarre quotes about how happy you are to make a game based on a decades-old toy and similar pursuits
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Opening up a PR firm singularly dedicated to writing bizarre quotes about how happy you are to make a game based on a decades-old toy and similar pursuits
Well, well, well, I think that might be one future soundtrack purchase sorted?
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Well, well, well, I think that might be one future soundtrack purchase sorted?
If Universal Studios is going to release a Michael Jackson biopic and not even consider depicting how this photoshoot came together, they don't know how to spend money
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If Universal Studios is going to release a Michael Jackson biopic and not even consider depicting how this photoshoot came together, they don't know how to spend money
Headed to your texts like
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Headed to your texts like
The Left wanted my fat…
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Left wanted my fat…
This is getting one Doc for each of those four words
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This is getting one Doc for each of those four words
I CAN THINK OF A WAY
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I CAN THINK OF A WAY
I have been informed that the Fight and Deliver candidate for mayor posted within the last 24 hours a view of his “good luck truck” that, he takes great pains to assert, is not the getaway car of a famed alleged murderer
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I have been informed that the Fight and Deliver candidate for mayor posted within the last 24 hours a view of his “good luck truck” that, he takes great pains to assert, is not the getaway car of a famed alleged murderer
Mid-level Nakatomi Corporation employee Harry Ellis has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Mid-level Nakatomi Corporation employee Harry Ellis has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo
The name of thys ynytyatyve ys kynd of a lot, yn my opynyon
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The name of thys ynytyatyve ys kynd of a lot, yn my opynyon
Let me get this straight: the Instagram account for perhaps the world’s most recognizable artist of children’s literature has promoted itself the last month with someone dressing as the author’s best-known character in a style recalling a universally-despised film adaptation from two decades ago
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Let me get this straight: the Instagram account for perhaps the world’s most recognizable artist of children’s literature has promoted itself the last month with someone dressing as the author’s best-known character in a style recalling a universally-despised film adaptation from two decades ago
Here is my huge dumb face saying nice things about doing my first ever canvassing for anyone, “anyone” being the terrific @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Now I’m going to sit down and take off my jackets
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Here is my huge dumb face saying nice things about doing my first ever canvassing for anyone, “anyone” being the terrific @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Now I’m going to sit down and take off my jackets
Feel like you might appreciate these
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Feel like you might appreciate these
And THIS was why I watched it for the first time this week #LastFourWatched @letterboxd.social
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
And THIS was why I watched it for the first time this week #LastFourWatched @letterboxd.social
Halloween?? Ugh, as IF!!!
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Halloween?? Ugh, as IF!!!
I have no idea who I sent this to (from my camera roll in summer 2024) but it’s got me LAUGHIN’
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I have no idea who I sent this to (from my camera roll in summer 2024) but it’s got me LAUGHIN’
Listen, let’s stay focused here on things like how Will to Power looked like they were looking for a third in Hell
October 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Listen, let’s stay focused here on things like how Will to Power looked like they were looking for a third in Hell
Everyone has an “aunt/uncle who wasn’t.” Mine’s my aunt’s brother, shot and paralyzed weeks into a tour in Vietnam, seen in his wheelchair in a 1970 Life Magazine spread about hideous conditions in the VA hospital where he recovered (text and photos preserved here www.dailykos.com/stories/2014...)
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Everyone has an “aunt/uncle who wasn’t.” Mine’s my aunt’s brother, shot and paralyzed weeks into a tour in Vietnam, seen in his wheelchair in a 1970 Life Magazine spread about hideous conditions in the VA hospital where he recovered (text and photos preserved here www.dailykos.com/stories/2014...)
Why the fuck is this giving Marvel movie drop
October 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Why the fuck is this giving Marvel movie drop
I don’t disagree, though the use of “you” is making my mind wander to some bad places
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I don’t disagree, though the use of “you” is making my mind wander to some bad places