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Larry's 100 Faves: 2025 Music

14 2025 albums on heavy rotation. The Headlines:

Best Album: Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats from the Soul

Best Single: Elderberry Wine by Wednesday

The rest?

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Larry's Faves: 2025 Music
See all #Larrys2025Faves Music presents a dilemma, both timeless and immediate. I listen to a lot of albums spanning almost 100 years, m...
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December 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Larry's 100 Faves: 2025 Music

14 albums on heavy rotation.

Best Album: Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, New Threats from the Soul
Best Single: Elderberry Wine by Wednesday

The rest? Read my #Larrys2025FavesMusic list: write.as/larrys100/la...

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Larry's Faves: 2025 Music
See all #Larrys2025Faves Music presents a dilemma, both timeless and immediate. I listen to a lot of albums spanning almost 100 years, m...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Larry's 100 Faves: The year in books

Fell short of my 35-book goal. Maybe reading goals are dumb?

Best: Death of the Author (Okorafor)
Best Debut: Brooklyn Motto (Johnson)
Best Memoir: The Harder I Fight (Neko Case)

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Larry's Faves: A year of books
See all #Larrys2025Faves I fell short of my goal of 35 books, petering out at 26. Maybe reading goals are dumb. I wrote more, listened to more music, and grew fatigu...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Larry's 100 Faves: 2025 Movies

Bad year for movies. Or bad year for me seeing movies. Ten films I saw, ranked with microreviews.

#1) One Battle After Another: Brilliant, but it has a tragic flaw

#2) Sinners: Juke Joint Cinema

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Larry's Faves: 2025 Movies
See all #Larrys2025Faves Bad year for movies. Or a bad year for me seeing movies. Award season rules push studios to cram releases at year’s end, and it's hard ...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Larry's Faves 2025: Television

Thirty shows ranked. Pluribus, Andor, and The Rehearsal lead the pack.

Stone-cold classics & mind-bending genre work. Comedies returned to balance the darkness.

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Larry's Faves: 2025 Television
Putting this list together, I was knocked out by how good television was in 2025. This list includes stone-cold classics like Andor, Black Mirror, and Hacks, while ma...
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December 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Pluribus Ep 9: Save the World or Get the Girl (Season Finale)

Carol and Manousos meet, negotiate, clash, and team up.

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Pluribus Episode 9: Save the World or Get the Girl (Season 1 Finale)
See 100 Word reviews of previous episodes here Carol and Manousos meet, negotiate, clash, separate, and ultimately team up. That arc sets up season two. The cold open is a haunting scene that revisi...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The Baltimorons: Jay Duplass, 2025

Melancholy May-December rom-com. An improv comedian meets a divorced dentist for a day-long Christmas adventure.

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The Baltimorons 2025, Duplass Brothers Productions, Directed by Jay Duplass (4...
Read more #100HotChocolates reviews There is a recent tradition of established film directors giving their elevated spin on the Christmas movie. See Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers and David Gordon G...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Pluribus Episode 8: Charm Offensive

Carol and Zosia's slow-burning love story. Sexual tension until the collective consciousness deduced that Carol needed to get laid.

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Pluribus Episode 8: Charm Offensive
See 100 Word reviews of previous episodes here Responding to Carol's plea in episode eight, Zosia and the Others return to Albuquerque. The episode centers on Carol and Z...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Oh. What. Fun. Amazon, 2025

Holiday party eggnog left out to curdle. 1970s gender stereotypes, check-collecting stars, and meanness as 'satire' blended together.

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Oh. What. Fun. Amazon 2025 (1.75 out of 5 Hot Chocolates)
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Leary, Felicity Jones, Dominic Sessa, Joan Chen, and Jason Schwartzman. Directed by Michael Showalter Read more #100HotChocolates reviews This movie is a ho...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Pluribus Ep 7: The Gap

Meditative and harrowing. Carol is drowning in loneliness, Manousos is on a glass-huffing vision quest. Both nearly break.

Soulful, quixotic television.

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Pluribus Episode 7: The Gap
See 100 Word reviews of previous episodes here Following Carol and Manousos on their journeys is both meditative and harrowing. Carol is drowning in abundance and...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper

The season's first banger

Atypical male lead, Anchorman-style comedy. Fruitcake ensemble cast.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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An Alpine Holiday (Hallmark Channel, 2025)

Real French Alps sets, sisterhood over romance, and Ashley Williams's quirky comic timing.

The rest?

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An Alpine Holiday, Hallmark Channel 2025 (2.5/5 Hot Chocolates)
Read more #100HotChocolates reviews Two aspects differentiate An Alpine Holiday: authentic French Alps sets (no fake snow!) and a story that focuses more on sibling relationships than romantic entang...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Pluribus Ep 6: HDP

Carol documents what's in the milk cartons,
Fake John Cena explains.

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Pluribus Episode 6: HDP
See 100 Word reviews of previous episodes here Episode 5 cliffhanger revealed: Carol turned vlogger and documented the frozen, shrink-wrapped body parts that ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Fun Easter Egg: Both Kramer and Evan Dando tell different versions of the story where Kramer fired Dando from a MC5 reunion/celebration tour.

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December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Brother Wayne Kramer from beyond the grave: MC5 saga, prison time, junkie business with Johnny Thunders, reflections on being a roofer and more.

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December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Stranger Things is a hot mess. Bloated plot, adults playing teens. But by episode four of Season 5: Part 1, I was back in.

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Stranger Things Season 5, Part 1 Netflix
The Stranger Things franchise is a hot mess. Bloated, convoluted plot, a chorus of characters to track, and the stars are now adults playing teens. But by the fourth episode of...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Christmas movie review season begins! A Merry Little Ex-Mas Netflix 2025

3.5/5 Hot Chocolates ☕

Alicia Silverstone joins the Christmas Movie industrial complex.

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#100HotChocolates #ChristmasMovies #Netflix #100WordReview #100DaysToOffload #drabble
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November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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New Larry's 100n review: PLURIBUS Episode 5, Got Milk

Carol becomes Agatha Christie as clues lead to an abandoned dog food factory and a classic episodic TV cliffhanger.

Being yourself is lonely.

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Pluribus Episode 5: Got Milk #
See 100 Word reviews of previous episodes here Being yourself is lonely. After Carol's interrogation of Zosia backfired, making the whol...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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New #Larrys100 Post: Evan Dando's memoir: Rumors of My Demise

Funny, honest, soulful. No redemption arc. No apology tour. Just warmth, talent, brutal honesty.

Full review: write.as/larrys100/ru...

Part of my #AudioMemoir series

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Rumors of My Demise Evan Dando Audiobook read by author (2025)
Note: Part of my ongoing #AudioMemoir series reviewing author-read memoirs. Previous: Neko Case, Cameron Crowe. Coming: Wayne Kramer, Larry Charles. The 100 Word Review of The Lemonheads' new album.....
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November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Fave 2025 Books: Oathbreakers, The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe

What does the Carolingian Empire warn us about?
Brinkmanship. Family infighting. Power-mad schemers. Endless nepobabies.

100 Word review: larrys100.writeas.com/oathbreakers...

#2025Books #Booksky
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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New Larry's 100 review: #Pluribus Episode 4

Has a memory card ever been so cinematic?

Vince Gilligan makes beautiful TV from small moments: Carol's camera setup, the Paraguayan in his bunker.

Does the show endorse individualism? I'm increasingly uncertain.

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November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Fave 2025 Books: Oathbreakers by @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com

What does the Carolingian Empire warn us about?
Brinkmanship. Family infighting. Egos. Power-mad schemers. Endless nepobabies.

100 Word review:
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#History #Oathbreakers #2025Books #Booksky
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Neko Case: poverty, survival, saved by rock & roll

Cameron Crowe: Rock stars—Lou Reed to Dicky Betts, long tours, late nights

Authors read memoirs, where an audiobook is another performance medium.

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November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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New review mini series: Author-read memoirs.

First Up: Cameron Crowe's The Uncool:

"Warm narration mining his teen music journalism years. Felt like Almost Famous: Writer's Cut."

Full #Larrys100 review: write.as/larrys100/the-uncool-a-memoir-cameron-crowe

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November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM