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RIP Udo Kier - the German Tim Curry

the songs aren’t funny

Good luck to you if you're taking on NANOWRIMO!

A backyard barbecue cookbook by David Byrne called 'Psycho Griller' and the blurb says "these recipes are fa-fa-FA-fa-licious!"

Searchlight Pictures which produced the movie Poor Things is owned by Walt Disney Studios which technically makes Bella Baxter a Disney Princess

Watching the George Lopez Show - the Labor Day marathon on Cozi TV - hilarious and heartfelt, GL (George Lopez, not Green Lantern) delivers the love and laughter of being a dad, husband, and son - the Sandra Bullock appearances are slapstick gold

"China Syndrome", the two-part series finale of King of Queens, seems to be a fuck you to the audience who "rode along" with the Heffernans, through highs and lows of 9 or 10 seasons of their tough but fair love-hate marriage -- the very final scene of a household terrorized by an unwanted adopted child suggests the hidden hand of Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler (both with KoQ connections) at their most surreal, cynical

Desperado Spaghetti Recipe

Beef Top Ramen (cook as advised) ...25 cents
Dark Red Kidney Beans* (cook as advised)...99 cents
BBQ sauce (to your taste)...20 cents (give or take)

Cost: $1.44

*nature's meatballs

Did you know that Sesame Street citizens Bert and Ernie were named after Nobel Prize winners Albert Camus (1957) and Ernest Hemingway (1954)?

How Our Band Fell Apart

"It would be a Morrissey cover band, but he's fat. We'll call it Fat Morrissey!"

"I could see you doing it!"

"Me?! I was thinking you!"

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Ok. Hear me out. Weird Al (Yankovic) does a parody of "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" (Morrissey) bit it's called "Charcuterie Board, Charcuterie Board"

The video for "Sing Your Life" (Morrissey) takes place in the Twin Peaks universe and is White Lodge adjacent. Prove me wrong, kids. Ha ha. Prove. Me. Wrong.

As a teen tycoon of rock, I look forward to getting Taylor Swift into the studio with Rick Rubin getting her back to basics and the Pipettes shadow-singing a way forward like the Sirens in that one old Greek book

Do you like American music? I like all kinds of music, but I like American music best, baby.

Knock knock

Who's there?

Jeffrey Eugenides!

Jeffrey Eugenides who?

Jeffrey Eugenides nuutz

Found a Brian Eno mix CD a well-meaning friend made. Well, friend, you left off "Blackwater" and "Seven Deadly Finns" lol - but "Spider and I" and "Bicycle" (w/John Cale) were genius additions!!

On porch there arose such a clatter, looked outside to see whassamatta: okay, at 2 AM there was the main black cat hiss talking from vantage of a step stool with, believe it or not, a new black cat (who seemed cranky, like it had walked through the angle of two walls and found itself perplexingly here ) while 2 raccoons stared from the stairs- no doubt a mixup regarding time and place of a secret pizza party.

My main phone of 19 years died. Just letting the, like, three of you who ever communicated (seanced, conjured) me on it know because I am, ha ha, too lazy to do a formal letter to each of you. If you, old friends dear friends, need the new number DM me.

Mandela Effect: could've sworn the title of the album was More Songs about Buildings and Floods

Incredible how the Booker Longlist looks exactly as you'd expect a longlist to look when it is curated in part by actress/publisher Sarah Jessica Parker

You have to let your body sleep to let your soul evolve - A National Acrobat, Black Sabbath

rip ozzy

Walked by two cats huddled together head-to-head. Said, "My, but aren't you two thick as thieves! What are you planning, eh?" Immediately turned 66.

Scott Weiland solo albums are hilarious - sets out to stretch artistic wings - produces just the worst Stone Temple Pilots b-sides this side of Creed demos

Oi! With the poodles, already!

Want to read - Jim Thompson - Five Noir Novels of the 1950s and 60s: Hell of a Woman, After Dark My Sweet, Getaway, Grifters, Pop. 1280 - scheduled March 2026 from The Library of America!

Want to Read: Life Sentences - a book of short stories by American treasure Martin Mull

Dunno why I ever ask any cat, "What are you doing up there?!" Never get a satisfying answer.

Parents, beware! The rock and roll band Jane's Addiction promotes marijuana dependence - and their subversive recordings have been made all too easily available through the Columbia House 10-for-a-penny program