The cover art is incredibly tacky. 

The Nussbaum title and even the jacket lettering are reminiscent of one of Pauline Kael’s 70's collections. For a primer in how much pop cultural criticism, pop culture itself, and the New Yorker have declined since the 70's, just contrast one Kael’s dynamic movie reviews with one of Nussbaums’s tepid essays about…

I went record shopping yesterday, snagging albums by Tuff Darts, Marianne Faithfull, Buddy Holly, Janet Jackson, and Lionel Richie, among others. It was bliss. 

I’ve been watching the “What’s in My Bag?” series of YouTube videos that Amoeba Records puts out, and it makes me sad that physical media is on the decline. What’s more fun than going to Amoeba or someplace like it and going home with a bag of goodies that are yours to keep forever?

Jesus fucking Christ who gives a shit

Meghan McCain has a nice rack.

I hadn’t heard about this. It sounds interesting. 

Last summer was the summer of Cocaine and Rhinestones for me, and warm weather has me anticipating the second season. While I’m waiting, I’m passing the time with Sword and Scale, a treasure chest for true-crime fans. Its episodes go back to 2014, and I fell I’ll never run out of them. And Bret Easton Ellis continues…

I really want the Playing Games podcast to come back. He was so good on that.

I feel like Dylan’s reputation is a joke that the world is playing on me. 

The purity police hate him because his views differ ever so slightly from woke orthodoxy. This is also the case with Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, etc.

I wouldn’t mind if they just picked a different artist for each episode and talked about 1 or 2 albums from that artist’s discography. 

“With their intersectional feminist takes on hook-up culture, self-care, and relationships, Bobo and Flex are dismantling the patriarchy of dating, one episode at a time.” 

Thanks for the heads-up. I was kind of missing that show and hoping the Scotts would start a new show, maybe a Prince or Beatles podcast. 

This is like a compendium of the recently released podcast episodes that suck the most ass. 

I was hoping Chotiner would end the interview by asking Bret if he likes the Eagles. 

Looks like this guy might be cuttin’ up tomatoes, fruits and vegetables and potatoes in the kitchen of a correctional facility. I’m very proud of myself for coming up with this.

What a fucking moron.

My mom took me to see Grease when it first came out—I was four years old— and I’ve probably watched it 30 times since that initial viewing. At some point in my adolescence, I realized it was not a great movie, but, even now, I can’t resist it if it’s playing on TV. Travolta is still my favorite actor, probably. 

DVRing movies off TCM is my preferred method of obtaining great movies to watch. If there’s some classic film I want to see, and it isn’t super obscure, it will pretty likely to turn up on TCM sometime within, say, a 12-month period. And even if it doesn’t, there are a hundred other movies I want to see that will.