The Beginnings weekly graphic featuring a press picture of today's guest, Stefanie and Chris from the band Big Harp with the Beginnings logo superimposed over them
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Wonderful talk with Stefanie & Chris of Big Harp! Never selling out, the Valley vs. the Sandhills, the rancher lifestyle, Mike Watt’s bass style + MORE!
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“You guys got that What’s Happening? episode where Rerun bootlegs the Doobie Brothers concert?” I ask repeatedly until they kick me out of the Criterion closet.
My favorite CinemaCon moments from the past:
-Park Hae-il & Tang Wei emerging from a massive wet sand hole on stage to promote Decision to Leave
-In 1977, Woody Allen & Diane Keaton enter riding a giant mechanical lobster
-Nicole Kidman in an elaborate golden retriever costume presents Dogville
What is this show?
Huh, well the CDC says the cure is an unguent made from toad semen, ogre bones and the sorrows of an unmarried woman applied twice weekly until 10 local oxen face north, so I guess good-bye to my Parkinson's!
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The weekly Beginnings graphic featuring a press photo of They MIght Be Giants' John Flansburgh (with John Linnell in the background) and the Beginnings logo superimposed over it
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with John Flansburgh of @tmbg.bsky.social! A calamitous first half of life, design obsession, the school newspaper clique, the early days of TMBG + MORE!
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A badly-photoshopped still from Subway Takes featuring Commander Riker saying, "Starfleet should find a better nickname than “Number One” for the XO. What are they, a bunch of piss freaks?"
Well, my brain has two modes, make idiotic shit like "Subway Frakes" or despair over living in one of the most evil countries on the face of the Earth.
Why do people try to “gotcha” Trump by posting old tweets where he contradicts things he says now? He’s a mobbed-up imbecile who’s barely intellectually consistent within the same sentence. It’s like writing a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle grammar-checking the Zodiac letters.
The Beginnings weekly graphic with a picture of Tortoise's John McEntire in his studio surrounded by studio things with knobs and switches. The Beginnings logo is superimposed over it.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
The wonderful John McEntire of Tortoise & tons more joins me to talk Portland politics & family politics, ego vs. understanding, not overthinking it, knowing vs. feeling + MORE!
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Marx remarked that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and second as farce. He forgot the third repetition: as a Benny Hill chase scene slowed down to half-speed with a nu-metal cover of “Yakety Sax”
The amount of supernatural resentment and chaos emanating from this makes the video from The Ring look like a VHS copy of Billy Madison
Everyone's into Pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog, but no one wants to deal with Postpartum Sonic the Hedgehog.
That stupid handshake meme, but the two arms are "Greg Ginn's new version of his old band, now with a bunch of teenagers" and "Possible Mossad agent Ori Solomon running an illegal biolab in Las Vegas" and the handshake is "False Flag". Why did I make this? To stop it from becoming an intrusive thought that would never leave my brain?
Who did I make this for and why?
Excited to announce I am writing the sequel to last year's hit "Is This Thing On?"!
The Beginnings weekly promo graphic featuring a studio picture of today's guests, Jeffrey and Zach, from Fatal Farm and a sasquatch. The sasquatch (maybe even Harry from Harry and the Hendersons?) has their arm around Jeffrey's shoulder and their other arm is pulling Zach into their chest/shoulder in a friendly way. The Beginnings logo is superimposed over the photo.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with @jeffreymax.bsky.social & Zach of comedy directing duo Fatal Farm! Sketch comedy and vulnerability, going to the school from Rushmore, Miami Vice grandfathers and MORE!
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The fall of every empire being handled in 1-10 paragraphs in every high school history textbook completely obscures the long, slow, everyday dread that makes up the core emotion of living in collapse. Really feel like Houghton Mifflin could have given that at least one sentence.
The film poster for Abbott and Costello Meet Alec Baldwin's Character from Glengarry Glen Ross
I know it's not a great time to promote something but I'm very excited to announce my next project!
The ‘90s ethos really is dead. SXSW sponsored by Palantir. Pavement licensing “Hit the Plane Down” to Raytheon. Touch and Go now outsourcing their PR to Blackwater mercenaries.
The Beginnings promo graphic with a picture of today's talented guest Connor Armbruster in a church and the Beginnings logo superimposed over him.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with Connor Armbruster of, well, Armbruster! Parenting and making art, Catholicism, Deep Listening, Riverdance, synesthesia + MORE!
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come on
I guess we're going to have to update the saying for the climate crisis era, "March comes in like a lion and out like a bleached pile of sizzling lion bones"
A picture of Squee sitting "seductively"
A picture of Prem sitting "seductively"
I just found this out, but apparently, for the last few years of their lives, my cats Squee and Prem had signed up for dating apps like Scratch and Litter and Jellicle.
The Academy Awards posted part of the "In Memoriam" section early, and it really hammer home how much incredible talent we lost this year.
A photoshopped picture of New Testament "The Gospel of Joel Osteen". Chapter 1 is called Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, and it says "Buddy, I am going to give it to you straight. You want to make it in this crazy, f'ed up world, you're gonna have to be a giant immoral piece of shit who thinks of nothing but his own base wants and desires, and yes, I said "his" and yes, this commandment supersedes all that love and forgiveness horseshit in the rest of this godforsaken thing"
Things started making more sense when I actually read the version of the New Testament that Evangelicals use.
The Beginnings promo graphic with a picture of Julia Steiner performing at Lollapalooza last year with the Beginnings logo superimposed over it
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Fantastic talk with Julia Steiner of @ratboysband.bsky.social! Obsessions & empathy, the talent “dog”, fear of change, a lucky bubble (???) and SO MUCH MORE!
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A photoshopped Pizza hut ad with the following text, "Grab a slice while a cabal of psychotic pedophiles turns people in another country with hopes and dreams similar to yours into a mass of free-floating sub-atomic particles. And don't forget our new Tuscany-spiced™ spaghetti-filled bread sticks!"
I mean, you have to appreciate Pizza Hut's honesty, I guess.
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Former Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill
America is the myth of Narcissus, but if Narcissus was a grotesque, feces-streaked abomination
Hey guys, I’m trying to earn my Dennis Miller merit badge
