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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out August 19, 2025 on Repeater Books / shipley.al@gmail.com http://westernblot.bandcamp.com

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every other show on television being a season-long murder mystery is so boring. they're not even good mysteries, they're just exercises in how long you can misdirect the viewer and delay the big reveal with flashbacks or flash-forwards.

11.03.2026 17:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they simply left the private sector to run the united states government

11.03.2026 15:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
311 - Don't Stay Home (Official 4K Video)
311 - Don't Stay Home (Official 4K Video) YouTube video by 311VEVO

it sounds insane in retrospect, but the first time i heard 311, i thought this was a new They Might Be Giants song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoDs...

11.03.2026 15:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i don't think he's gonna get the fifa peace prize again this year

11.03.2026 15:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

fake news on facebook saying that bill hader is going to be hawkeye in a mash reboot just because he did a good alan alda impression on snl smh

11.03.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's called newsmax because they exceeded their daily limit for news and had to start making shit up

11.03.2026 13:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2026 recording log, day 12:
Session with New Band, got lots of work done on Untitled 126B.

11.03.2026 02:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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11.03.2026 01:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No not really

10.03.2026 21:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pearl Jam was taken

10.03.2026 21:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

one thing i like about this, if you refer to kristi noem by just her last name in a lyric, it sounds like you're singing about an evil gnome
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

10.03.2026 21:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

typo of the day: "dello" instead of "cello"

10.03.2026 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

someone who was trying to hurt my feelings called me a "townie" and that seems like such a weird old-fashioned insult that doesn't even make sense when you're talking to a stranger on the internet

10.03.2026 17:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i was feeling indecisive about lunch, but then i left work and immediately saw a food truck with a shrimp po' boy. the universe will provide.

10.03.2026 17:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

well if trump's not our king then why is the country royally fucked?

10.03.2026 15:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
narrowcast: Deep Album Cuts Vol. 393: The Wu-Tang Clan

I made a Wu-Tang Clan deep album cuts playlist:
narrowcast.blogspot.com/2026/03/deep...
open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZG...

10.03.2026 14:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

an elaine benes avatar right next to a george costanza avatar in the likes on one of my tweets. there should be a cash prize if i line up a third seinfeld character.

10.03.2026 14:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you're skeeting on thin ice

10.03.2026 13:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"eww bluesky is the worst" i dunno, in my experience bluesky isn't the site where you get called the r-word by a stranger roughly once for every hundred likes one of your posts gets, it seems fine to me

10.03.2026 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the yellow ones also taste better in both cases

10.03.2026 13:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i feel like if trump dies in office, vance will get impeached in a matter of months for something justifiable but minor compared to what trump has done, just because his weaknesses will be so obvious to both parties, he'll be out on his ass in no time

10.03.2026 13:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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timothee when kylie says she's going to the ballet

10.03.2026 05:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yeah i'm not sure what the hold up is with Kehlani, she released two projects in 2024 but then didn't strike when the iron was hot with the biggest song of her career

10.03.2026 03:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i'm so old that even when i nonchalantly volunteer my age, people think that saying what my age is will make me mad, like they're telling everyone my social security number (i'm so old that my social security number is 7 btw)

09.03.2026 17:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

typo of the day: "monfay" instead of "monday"

09.03.2026 16:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

everyone knows we're fucked and the closest thing to optimism is "lol jim cramer says we're fucked so that must mean we'll be fine" shitposts

09.03.2026 16:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it . ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .

timothee using reverse psychology to sell millions of ballet and opera tickets

09.03.2026 15:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

zombie joe mcdonald tops the charts with the "i-feel-like-i'm-fixin'-to-reanimate rag"

09.03.2026 15:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
narrowcast: Monthly Report: February 2026 Albums

Monthly Report: February Albums - Ratboys, Department, J. Cole, Charli XCX, The Paranoid Style, The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Willow, etc.
narrowcast.blogspot.com/2026/03/mont...

09.03.2026 14:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

American Classic feels so precisely targeted to me: one of the creators of Slings & Arrows doing a similar premise and Kevin Kline doing the Mr. Fischoeder voice in live action

09.03.2026 14:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0