Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

Incredible to watch, may he play 18 more seasons before spontaneously combusting into kindling.

Victor Wembayana is clearly an incredible talent and I’m probably not the first to make this observation, but on every play, his limbs look like they’re all about to snap into tiny pieces.

Madonna and Derek Jeter out here catching strays all at the same time.

It's Payday.

The opener for the show I’m at tonight can only be described as “what if Jimi Hendrix and Tom Waits collaborated on drone metal”

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They did this, made a whole movie about it. At least, I assume that’s the plot.

Bumping for the afternoon crowd.

Everybody Scream: Two Nights with Florence + the Machine Last weekend, my wife and I attended two concerts by indie pop/rock/R&R artist Florence + the Machine. I had never seen the band before, despite hits like ‘The Dog Days Are Over’ an…

Wrote about Florence + the Machine, folk-horror, and witchy dancing over at my website: travisjcook.com/2026/04/15/e...

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

Everybody Scream: Two Nights with Florence + the Machine Last weekend, my wife and I attended two concerts by indie pop/rock/R&R artist Florence + the Machine. I had never seen the band before, despite hits like ‘The Dog Days Are Over’ an…

Wrote about Florence + the Machine, folk-horror, and witchy dancing over at my website: travisjcook.com/2026/04/15/e...

For sure—but the evolution of what “PR things” entails is worth explaining, especially as those same things (namely, creating fake accounts to drive messaging and manipulate algos) are used to drive agendas around trials, crises, campaigns, controversies etc

Love the Cameron Winter solo record, liked the last two records, but there's just way too much discourse otherwise.

Man, I hear too much about Geese.

Joy Division/New Order! Wu-Tang! Iron Fuckin’ Maiden!

The thing about the Rock Hall is that the backlog is so huge that any incoming class will automatically look great.

Anyway, this year’s rock hall class looks great.

Anyway, yes to all of the above.

Not the main takeaway by far, but as far as TV, one of the more memorable Mythic Quest episodes is that Covid episode, which I still think about to this day/it sums up everything as well as anything I can think of, which is not what I expected from that show esp.

And one dead Pope.

<listening to the new sunn O)))>
Start: hell yes, heavy as shit, this is it
5 minutes in: …oh, it’s just this….is this it?
95 minutes in, floating somewhere in a parallel reality of cosmic noise: +#^*~€^{ ^?€£%¥# ¥+*

*THIS IS IT

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Oh hell yes

Jansen is basically the best reliever not in the hall, statistically speaking. He's in a much better place than Kimbrel, and if he hits 500 saves, he'll make it in after 5-7 ballots, likely.

Also, who made this list lmao there's so much here that's just clearly bait that it's laughable.

This, too. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Earmarking this for payday.

Adam Scott holding a claymation figurine

Now pitching for the Marlins - ah, you gotta be Jo King.

I have time blotted out to write today, but, well...<gestures at the horrors>

Man what