Listen To My Body Tonight: How Prince's Transgressive Spirit Broke Boundaries In the nearly four decades of music Prince made, propriety and prejudice were regularly vanquished by good humor and elegant lust.

Still and always unrivaled. www.npr.org/sections/the...

The Prince 100 Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson counts down his top Prince songs.

Going to be rereading this all month www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Chuck Klosterman gave him a good, empathetic obituary on Grantland: grantland.com/hollywood-pr...

Jani Lane writes 'Cherry Pie' YouTube video by Crossing The Streams

I think about this maybe once a week. youtu.be/OR1xpknCHCQ

This is the average American voter

I heard mixed things about it for so long I was surprised how much I liked it. Still do.

leave me alone

4/20 reminder that your teachers can tell when you show up to class baked, even if we don't say anything.

I have wondered if as time goes on, the Marvel movies will be one of the most "2010s" coded things ever, the equivalent of like 70s variety shows or 50s cars as a decade signifier

!!!

I'm just so sad and angry.

"It happened even as Cerina Fairfax supported the entire family on her salary as a part-time dentist, allowing her husband to assume the role of political leader."

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most maje...

I'd love a book of these. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Happy 80th, you beautiful man

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC

"The RZA, the GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killah, and the Z-I-M-M-E-R Man"

Greatest workout record of all time

I cannot even begin to tell you.
How fast you will move to the top of my ballot.
If you publicly antagonize AI.

Love this story from Craig Robertson's Chris Knox bio about how an Auckland punk band learned to play "Anarchy in the UK" by taping the short bits that aired in a news segment off of the TV and just playing those parts. (Try to explain this to a young person today haha)

this is fucking nuts:

Underrated movie

Author Will Fertman, a middle-aged white man with curly auburn hair, stands against a white wall, smiling and holding up a book, "The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual." He wears a t-shirt with the slogan "American Sign Language is a Human Right." In the top-right corner is a QR code leading to https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/deaf-baby-instruction-manual-9798765189375/ labeled "bloomsbury.com" In the bottom-right corner is a pink star with the words "On Sale Now!" superimposed.

Pub day! The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual is officially for sale, and I'm already getting incredible feedback.

I'm excited to hear from parents with deaf and hard of hearing kids, and especially Deaf adults, who know the real deal. Buy it now at www.bloomsbury.com/us/deaf-baby...

♿ #ASL #deafkids

33 1/3 bookshelves at Rough Trade, NYC.

Body Count (33 1/3)

New, signed Body Count books on the @3313books.bsky.social shelves at @roughtraderecords.bsky.social!

The cover of the Nine Inch Noize album by Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize, featuring an all deep red cover with the exception of a small white/gray rectangle in the lower left corner that has the words "Nine Inch Nails" across the top and "Noize" written out vertically from the 'N' in 'Nails.'

So anyway the Nine Inch Noize album is live and I hope you're all listening, of course. (It rules.)

A few years ago I heard Beirut next to Janis Joplin on a rental car radio and I've never recovered

The Midlife Plot Twist It’s not a midlife crisis—it’s a midlife plot twist! Packed with honest, insightful, and deeply relatable advice for anyone who has reached...

The Midlife Plot Twist is a funny, insightful, and empathetic case for prioritizing your needs, forgiving yourself for not being exactly who you want to be, and so much more. I can't wait for the world to read it. Pre-order it today! #netgalley
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/linds...

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

a movie couple that would definitely have a podcast

Today a student told me he recognized my picture at Montclair Book Center ("I didn't know you wrote a book!") and I'm using that to power through the rest of the semester

Hundreds of Beavers