Someone try unplugging Rob Sheffield and then plugging him back in, this is such a pop stan-fried brain take

Full on "Baby, You're a Rich Man"ing some sites during this Cloudflare outage while I'm in this Zoom

On a (full day) Zoom training and for the "favorite holiday" icebreaker, we had 5 fucking people say 4th of July; I am so fucking confused

-No MBDTF, which probably means no Watch the Throne/Cruel Summer, which means blockbuster rap looks veeeery different in the '10s
-Taylor was already/always destined to be a star, but her media profile looks different without the surge of public support, idk if she crosses over like she does w/o it

Pop culture looks different in some pretty substantive and drastic ways if Kanye West never interrupts Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs, I’m so serious

Me, for the last week: you know, I get it, but a truly gobsmacking percentage of trans art has sadness and pain as loci

Also me: [drafts a poem that ends with “I AM JUST A DEAD MOM”]

It is summer 2014, and there is handwringing over the "right" was to protest an obvious social wrong

It is summer 2020, and there is handwringing over the "right" way to protest an obvious social wrong

It is summer 2025, and there is handwringing over th

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Yes, of course I'm all in on HONEY DON'T! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzr6...

Keeping all my ready-to-read poems in one Google doc was a smart idea until I started tweaking them for submissions/the fuck of it, and now I have to track down what goes where for their most recent versions

Living as a woman who truly has it all by hitting up two separate book clubs tonight

Also holy shit the new Arcade Fire song is terrible, fuck Win and fuck that band lmao

It is very funny to be Mad about this article. SG clearly gave Arcade Fire the “fuck this band” special: an early, deliberate mention and linking of the allegations, a bored and factual news brief, and then throwing the band to the commentariat to flambé them

Like, tf are you expecting, "Hey, no worries about your refusal to extend a loved one some basic human decency, meet the moment with curiosity, or try to find a middle ground--Reds bullpen is supposed to look better this year"?

This gets at something I've been thinking about, esp. w/r/t some Christian Boomers I know. They'll tell me to my face that doing me the courtesy of referring to me as I've asked them to is an infringement on their core beliefs & natural law, then be confused I'm not thrilled to break bread with them

A thing that I find incredibly interesting is the world is full of people who genuinely believe they have a *right* to be liked and for people to be obsequious towards them. I have seen it from a wide range of people, and it never ceases to amaze me. No one *has* to be your friend!

Did Elon finally forget to pay the light bill at Twitter?

The Substance is Egg Cinema bc this is absolutely how I look at myself in the mirror on injection day

Today, Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday.

He should be surrounded by friends and family.

Trayvon deserved to see 30. Happy heavenly birthday 🕊️

Everything they say about adult Catholic converts applies to JD Vance, and then you gotta add a 2.5x multiplier on top of it because he entered the faith at St. fucking Gertrude

Kidz Bop has a rendention of “Good Luck, Babe!” which 1. Lol, but 2. Honestly? Still a pretty cutting bridge!

The Tortured Audits Department Gotta give it up for an album whose entire tone is set with its announcement. When Taylor Swift announced her newest album’s release date in her acceptance speech for her last newest album’s Grammy wi...

We're launching the newsletter here by sharing that I wrote belatedly about Taylor Swift starkissed-and-unburned.ghost.io/the-tortured...

Okay fine, Tuesday or summin. Apparently people are bailing on Meta for this week, so maybe tomorrow, who knows?

Exciting shit afoot next week, screenshot kinda related

We picked a book club book back in November, and set a Jan date in December to give everyone time to read it well in advance

And yet here I am, a week away

I love when a pod’s been on long enough where the cohosts are comfortable to let slip whatever actually insane habits they have, like Shea Serrano buying new socks every month

DnD world where clerics/faith are reworked to be rooted in a non-Christian religion so that neither the players nor DMs enter any church plot with a countdown until the reveal of The Church is Bad, Actually, or at least without feeling guilty about it

Where's the Disney duty of care to a trans teenager? I bet she weighed up the cons of being so publicly out as a trans girl with the benefits of bringing representation & hope to trans kids. Now Disney pulls the representation while doubling the publicity & hate she will receive. Cowards

Went to a show with pole dancing last night. Pole’s fun to watch—you see someone perform these astonishing physical feats set to the worst trap remix of Dance of the Sugar Plums on Earth

Saw Hundreds of Beavers on Friday (yessss) and seeing Gladiator II IInite, we're back baby!