I was pleasantly surprised to learn earlier today that in a world of being numbed to rising costs everywhere, Popeyes classic chicken sandwich is a surprisingly reasonable $5.99. 🤔👏🙌
Friday, June 12, 2026
Thursday, June 11, 2026
U2, Why Not
MY SELECTS:
A Celebration
The Unforgettable Fire
Running to Stand Still
Hawkmoon 269
So Cruel
The Wanderer
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Everybody Already Knew It But the New Boss's Arrival Confirmed It:
Randle always was the @#$%ing kiss-ass of the group.
Speaking of the Sex Pistols, Which I'm Always Happy to Do
50 years ago last week, the Sex Pistols played "The Gig That Changed Music Forever" to about 40 people in Manchester:
On June the 4th 1976 The Sex Pistols played a poorly attended gig at a small inaccessible venue in Manchester the Lesser Free Trade Hall. There were only around 40 people in the audience that night but the impact of that tiny gig on the city of Manchester was absolutely seismic and the ripples of it are still spreading out today.Want the documentary about the show? You got it! And YES people, you ARE quite welcome!
In fact it could be argued that without this gig the world would never have seen the Smiths, the Buzzcocks, The Fall, Joy Division, New Order, Simply Red, Happy Mondays and without the Smiths and the Manchester movement would there ever have been an Oasis and the Britpop movement.
Think about the ripples of inspiration that came as a result of those bands maybe there would be no Nirvana, Green Day, Suede, Arctic Monkeys, Blur Radiohead, all of whom are acts that owe a debt to bands formed in the sticky carpeted Isles of the Lesser free trade Hall.
This gig acts as a kind of balancing point for the music scene in Manchester without it things could have been very very different today not just for the city itself but for the UK as a whole and beyond.
Another Country Western Song Title in Search of a Song
I Spent So Much Time Trying to Re-seal the Plastic Lettuce Bag Perfectly So Air Couldn’t Get in and It Turns Out There Were Holes in the Bag the Whole Time Anyway
Monday, June 08, 2026
FINALLY du Jour
A real, definitive Sex Pistols documentary may finally be upon us, and our only clue right now that it won't be the usual "look how CRAZY!! these guys were, WACKY!! " bullshit nonsense is its apparent focus on Glen Matlock, the serious, humanly relatable one who also happened to have all the musical talent at the time.
CAN'T WAIT!!!
CAN'T WAIT!!!
I Cant Believe I'm Rotting for The Knicks 🤣
They lost tonight but as we move on to Game 4 let's hear it for my two all-time favorite Knicks fans!! 🕺❤️🏀🙌🤗
(Keep It Up NYC from below available soon on So What Records.)
Brilliant du Jour
Some brilliant insights into the Republican male psyche, to be put atop their already-loaded baggage rack of daddy issues & weird purity tests for daughters.
A Truth About White People
At a high school graduation dinner last week we all went around & said what (if any) senior superlative we’d received back in our day; with everybody else having matriculated at private schools I took a bit of relish in pointing out that not only was I voted Class Clown, I was voted Class Clown for a class that was 65-70% black & you’re goddam right that makes it much, much more impressive.
Ramones Mania
You know what everybody, let’s give a little love to the now-completely forgotten/overlooked 1988 Ramones compilation album Ramones Mania, which is how I first heard a lot of their songs back when finding their albums was next to impossible. I can't believe I still have the tape 38 years later, we wore this fucker out in BP’s car one summer going to Kings Dominion as much as possible. 🤗🕺🎸
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Ideas. I Have Them.
I wanna do a version of Gilmore Girls in which Lorelei is hideously ugly so nobody feels the need to stand there listening to her endless verbal diarrhea rambling on & on and people throughout Stars Hollow repeatedly tell her to shut the fuck up before she even gets going; all the episodes would be about four minutes long each.
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