Adultosaur! Great to see you! Here’s my favorite Janet track!

What’s particularly fucking obnoxious is that my own music collection is pretty significant: 2,800 CDs, 1,200 albums, and 30,000 songs on iTunes before I gave up and went streaming. This dude knows that I have the full Beatles discography as well as every album by Elvis Costello, Joan Armatrading, Alexander O’Neal,…

I was out of the grays on Jezebel for two years but was suddenly re-grayed a few months back. No explanation, no idea why.

He’s a shockingly arrogant guy, and I don’t really want to engage with that shit because I’m kind of sick of engaging with that shit. He did the same thing a few months ago when I went to see Babyface; I had to remind him that albums on which ‘Face’s songs have appeared have sold upwards of 500,000,000 copies, and…

I just got yelled at on Facebook because I had the gall to say that I really enjoyed Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814" and was bummed that the concert I was going to tomorrow was rescheduled, and a guy I know who considers himself a music aficionado went off on how Janet Jackson was shit and how it didn't matter…

I wrote a reading response for an American Studies class (“Art & Entertainment in America: 1950 to the Present”) where I related Gawker to The Filter Bubble. Is that good? (I got an “A.”)

There is one song that I can’t find anywhere: it’s by the current drummer from The Damned, Andrew Pinching, and it appeared in episode 6. It’s called “I See the Future.” Here’s as close as I can get—thanks, YouTube!

Stranger Things has joined the list of first seasons that I wish I could watch again for the first time. (That list also includes Luther, The X-Files, Broadchurch, The Fall, The Wire, Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Happy Valley, Damages, and a few others—but only a few.)

I’d link to this article on my Facebook page, but then I’d be fucked.

The Trump campaign just released this video on its website in order to clarify their position on this important issue.

I have a friend who is a higher-up at Twitter. I just sent him this piece.

We used to rent a beach house from a guy who worked for R.J. Reynolds. Everything in that house was branded with some sort of RJR product.

before threatening to kill himself with an AR-15 assault rifle

In part, yes.

I did my Master’s thesis on American popular music and concentrated specifically on the renaissance of the careers of Jackson and Brian Wilson. Interestingly enough, the first single from Thriller was “The Girl is Mine” because Epic was convinced that it was the only song that would appeal to a white audience—the only…

I spoke to a friend the other day who has friends who live on St. Croix. Apparently, Macca, who lives nearby, is the most delightful guy you’d ever want to meet: quiet, self-effacing, and utterly normal.

Eh, I don’t necessarily hold that against him. Child actors gotta act, and it’s a long, hard slog.

Here he is with Stephen King and wearing a scarf. Don’t you dare apologize for that, brother.

Alia: it’s important not to tie your self esteem into how you look or what people think of you. You have to have the heart of an angel and the hide of an elephant.

37, and a guy, and same.