Ryan J. Novak
@theedjewcator.bsky.social
Full-time teacher, part-time music journalist, and an amateur golem. Record collector, comic book reader, published author, and a Boston sports fan.
In honor of his much-deserved induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame, I wrote about my love of Warren Zevon on my Substack. Enjoy it if it’s your thing.
Ryan J Novak (@ryanjnovak)
At 47, things are starting to get a little foggy, but if memory serves, I first heard Warren Zevon via Dr. Demento playing “Werewolves of London” on a Halloween show one Sunday night close to Hallowee...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In honor of his much-deserved induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame, I wrote about my love of Warren Zevon on my Substack. Enjoy it if it’s your thing.
@superchunk.bsky.social Do you have the 7” at Riot Fest? I can’t find it. I’ve missed the last couple tour-exclusive 7” and don’t want to miss this one.
September 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@superchunk.bsky.social Do you have the 7” at Riot Fest? I can’t find it. I’ve missed the last couple tour-exclusive 7” and don’t want to miss this one.
You know Trump doesn’t want to meet with them because he doesn’t think they’re going to be hot anymore now that they’re adults.
REPORTER: Will you meet with the Epstein victims?
TRUMP: Nobody has suggested that. Certainly I don't like that situation with respect to anybody being abused or hurt. But I haven't even thought about that. Thank you very much. Have a good time.
TRUMP: Nobody has suggested that. Certainly I don't like that situation with respect to anybody being abused or hurt. But I haven't even thought about that. Thank you very much. Have a good time.
September 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
You know Trump doesn’t want to meet with them because he doesn’t think they’re going to be hot anymore now that they’re adults.
@jennyowenyoungs.bsky.social and @kristinnoeline.bsky.social Are you both aware that in The Naked Gun Liam Neeson’s Frank Drebin, Jr is a huge Buffy fan?!
August 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@jennyowenyoungs.bsky.social and @kristinnoeline.bsky.social Are you both aware that in The Naked Gun Liam Neeson’s Frank Drebin, Jr is a huge Buffy fan?!
Trump releases a statement on the passing of Hulk Hogan: “I was with him on his deathbed, and his final words, whispered only to me, were ‘Brother, there’s two things I know: 1. You are the greatest thing to ever happen to America, and which is lucky because you’re very good at being President”
July 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Trump releases a statement on the passing of Hulk Hogan: “I was with him on his deathbed, and his final words, whispered only to me, were ‘Brother, there’s two things I know: 1. You are the greatest thing to ever happen to America, and which is lucky because you’re very good at being President”
They should rename it the “Trump is in the Epstein Files and is Desperate to Hide It Center for the Performing Arts.”
July 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
They should rename it the “Trump is in the Epstein Files and is Desperate to Hide It Center for the Performing Arts.”
Pure cane sugar in Coke, gloating about Colbert being cancelled, and now the return of racist sports team names?! These are all very important things, obviously. Man, it’s like Donald Trump never had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and isn’t trying to desperately get us all to move on!
July 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Pure cane sugar in Coke, gloating about Colbert being cancelled, and now the return of racist sports team names?! These are all very important things, obviously. Man, it’s like Donald Trump never had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and isn’t trying to desperately get us all to move on!
I love Boston. It’s my favorite city, but what I love are the moments it’s history has to intermingle with the modern day resulting in beautiful sentences like this.
What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
July 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I love Boston. It’s my favorite city, but what I love are the moments it’s history has to intermingle with the modern day resulting in beautiful sentences like this.
Any updates on this?
July 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Any updates on this?
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IHTOV is not updated on saturdays, but i do like to highlight past posts you may have missed. today i'm featuring @theedjewcator.bsky.social and his ode to double nickels on the dime, which just had an anniversary on the 3rd ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/their...
Their Band Saved My Life: Double Nickles on the Dime, Mental Health, and My Punk Rock Salvation
I once let a kid who had been kicked out of his house live with me and my family, and he tried to steal my underwear. Okay, that’s a lot up front, let me backup for just a second. It will be quick, an...
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July 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
IHTOV is not updated on saturdays, but i do like to highlight past posts you may have missed. today i'm featuring @theedjewcator.bsky.social and his ode to double nickels on the dime, which just had an anniversary on the 3rd ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/their...
In honor of the 41st anniversary of one of greatest punk albums of all time, take a moment and read my essay about it from @ihavethatonvinyl.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In honor of the 41st anniversary of one of greatest punk albums of all time, take a moment and read my essay about it from @ihavethatonvinyl.com
Ted Cruz’s dad cutting a promo in the ring…
Jim Ross: Why… why… that’s Batista’s music, King!
Jerry Lawler: The Animal is here, J.R.!
Jim Ross: Business is about to pick up!
Jim Ross: Why… why… that’s Batista’s music, King!
Jerry Lawler: The Animal is here, J.R.!
Jim Ross: Business is about to pick up!
June 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Ted Cruz’s dad cutting a promo in the ring…
Jim Ross: Why… why… that’s Batista’s music, King!
Jerry Lawler: The Animal is here, J.R.!
Jim Ross: Business is about to pick up!
Jim Ross: Why… why… that’s Batista’s music, King!
Jerry Lawler: The Animal is here, J.R.!
Jim Ross: Business is about to pick up!
Ten Authors by whom I've read five or (many) more books:
Henry Rollins - 26
Jack Kerouac - 19
Kurt Vonnegut - 14
William S. Burroughs - 11
Nick Hornby - 11
David Sedaris - 10
Jim Thompson - 9
Grady Hendrix - 7
Elmore Leonard - 7
Sarah Vowell - 7
Henry Rollins - 26
Jack Kerouac - 19
Kurt Vonnegut - 14
William S. Burroughs - 11
Nick Hornby - 11
David Sedaris - 10
Jim Thompson - 9
Grady Hendrix - 7
Elmore Leonard - 7
Sarah Vowell - 7
Ten Authors by whom I've read five or (many) more books
William Vollmann - 19
Margaret Atwood - 6
William Burroughs - 11
Stephen Dixon - 8
Tom Wolfe - 7
Clive Barker - 16
Brian Evenson - 6
Rick Moody - 9 (all his fiction)
Blake Butler - 12 (all)
Bret Easton Ellis - 9
William Vollmann - 19
Margaret Atwood - 6
William Burroughs - 11
Stephen Dixon - 8
Tom Wolfe - 7
Clive Barker - 16
Brian Evenson - 6
Rick Moody - 9 (all his fiction)
Blake Butler - 12 (all)
Bret Easton Ellis - 9
June 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Ten Authors by whom I've read five or (many) more books:
Henry Rollins - 26
Jack Kerouac - 19
Kurt Vonnegut - 14
William S. Burroughs - 11
Nick Hornby - 11
David Sedaris - 10
Jim Thompson - 9
Grady Hendrix - 7
Elmore Leonard - 7
Sarah Vowell - 7
Henry Rollins - 26
Jack Kerouac - 19
Kurt Vonnegut - 14
William S. Burroughs - 11
Nick Hornby - 11
David Sedaris - 10
Jim Thompson - 9
Grady Hendrix - 7
Elmore Leonard - 7
Sarah Vowell - 7
I’m a high school English teacher. I always make my students pick up after themselves, and anytime a student complains or says “we have janitors,” I remind them that our maintenance staff already work too hard every day to have more work added because they were too lazy to pick up their trash.
Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
June 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I’m a high school English teacher. I always make my students pick up after themselves, and anytime a student complains or says “we have janitors,” I remind them that our maintenance staff already work too hard every day to have more work added because they were too lazy to pick up their trash.
How it started: millions of people voted for a convicted felon whose previous term in the White House was somewhere between a total clusterfuck and a nonstop nightmare because they thought they’d get free eggs and gas.
How it’s going: we’re getting tips on how to stop the stinging of tear gas.
How it’s going: we’re getting tips on how to stop the stinging of tear gas.
Also, if you get sprayed with tear gas, please don’t wash your eyes out with MILK 🥹 Use either water (distilled preferably) or saline
June 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
How it started: millions of people voted for a convicted felon whose previous term in the White House was somewhere between a total clusterfuck and a nonstop nightmare because they thought they’d get free eggs and gas.
How it’s going: we’re getting tips on how to stop the stinging of tear gas.
How it’s going: we’re getting tips on how to stop the stinging of tear gas.
It’s so crazy the radical left lunatics in Los Angeles spontaneously started rioting for no reason at all right as Elon accused Tr*mp of being a p***phile and not releasing the Epstein files because he’s in them before Donnie had a chance to defend himself. Probably just a total coincidence, though.
Trump, speaking to troops at Fort Bragg, calls Los Angeles a "trash heap"
June 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s so crazy the radical left lunatics in Los Angeles spontaneously started rioting for no reason at all right as Elon accused Tr*mp of being a p***phile and not releasing the Epstein files because he’s in them before Donnie had a chance to defend himself. Probably just a total coincidence, though.
She killed nearly every crew member of the Nostromo.
May 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
She killed nearly every crew member of the Nostromo.
I know they have to ask these questions in light of the New York Times report, but did they think Hassett was going to respond “Did I witness it?!? That guy is a fucking maniac! Oh man, he’d be doing blow right there in the Oval Office, like mid-sentence!”
HUNT: Did you ever witness Elon Musk under the influence of drugs?
HASSETT: Not in a million years. He's a person who is so filled with joy that it's just a natural way that he is.
HASSETT: Not in a million years. He's a person who is so filled with joy that it's just a natural way that he is.
May 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I know they have to ask these questions in light of the New York Times report, but did they think Hassett was going to respond “Did I witness it?!? That guy is a fucking maniac! Oh man, he’d be doing blow right there in the Oval Office, like mid-sentence!”
Anyone with common sense is reading this and laughing at the obvious B.S., but there is tragically a lot of people who fully buy this.
Narrator: they were not considering the offer
May 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Anyone with common sense is reading this and laughing at the obvious B.S., but there is tragically a lot of people who fully buy this.
The answer is obvious: @jennyowenyoungs.bsky.social plays The Bronze 2.0, and @kristinnoeline.bsky.social plays her tour manager.
May 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The answer is obvious: @jennyowenyoungs.bsky.social plays The Bronze 2.0, and @kristinnoeline.bsky.social plays her tour manager.
That’s so cool of Greg Ginn to simultaneously take advantage of these kids AND continue to take advantage of Black Flag fans by getting them to pay money to come watch essentially punk-rock karaoke.
The first picture of Greg Ginn with his new Black Flag bandmates has emerged.
May 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
That’s so cool of Greg Ginn to simultaneously take advantage of these kids AND continue to take advantage of Black Flag fans by getting them to pay money to come watch essentially punk-rock karaoke.
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There’s a broad consensus that Greg Ginn sucks.
Reading any interview with those who know him (or the Flag oral history from Punk Planet) or any book about Black Flag or SST (Spray Paint the Walls, Get in the Van, or Corporate Rock Sucks) will tell you he’s a bad person who abused and chased away everyone whoever played in Flag or worked for SST.
May 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There’s a broad consensus that Greg Ginn sucks.
I love that Trump needed to bother telling us that he doesn’t like Springsteen, like any of us could imagine Trump driving along at night, with his tie loosened, sleeves rolled up, windows down, and just absolutely ROCKING out to “Badlands” and “Born to Run.”
Bruce Springsteen has 17 platinum albums.
Donald Trump has 6 golden bankruptcies.
Donald Trump has 6 golden bankruptcies.
May 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I love that Trump needed to bother telling us that he doesn’t like Springsteen, like any of us could imagine Trump driving along at night, with his tie loosened, sleeves rolled up, windows down, and just absolutely ROCKING out to “Badlands” and “Born to Run.”
No doubt that a lot of the Republican senators who are supporting this bill are all downloading VPN’s or asking questions like “this wouldn’t affect anyone who a collection of vintage DVD’s, right?”
May 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
No doubt that a lot of the Republican senators who are supporting this bill are all downloading VPN’s or asking questions like “this wouldn’t affect anyone who a collection of vintage DVD’s, right?”
Why does he look like he’s throwing a tantrum at Toys-R-Us after being told he can’t get a new toy on this trip in every picture I’ve seen of him?
May 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Why does he look like he’s throwing a tantrum at Toys-R-Us after being told he can’t get a new toy on this trip in every picture I’ve seen of him?