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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1h

Easily part of the reason why I found the Taylor rollout exhausting (and as someone who wrote something this week, guilty as charged). By contrast, I think @sterlewine.bsky.social wrote about the Billy Joel doc weeks after it came out and it was one of my favorite things on it

Jeff Giles @jefito.com · 1h

100 percent. The editorial culture based around “winning the search” has conditioned us to believe that any take arriving more than 24 hours after the event isn’t worth reading. It’s insane and bad for us overall.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1h

look no offense to this person specifically but i do think ‘are we still talking about this’ as a response to an essay about something from a couple weeks ago is pretty silly. we should expect thoughtful writing to take time

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1h

When you go next you GOTTA let me know

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1h

Actually yeah, is this the most forced franchise ever? I say that as someone who owns a Flynn’s Arcade shirt

Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 2h

Okay, so admittedly the first Tron was a critical and box office flop, and the second Tron was also a critical and box office flop, but I have some high expectations for this new Tron starring a man who exclusively makes critical and box office flops!

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2h

He expanded the band for this tour! Probyn was all over; the extra guitarist, Payton, did a tremendous job too. She’s young, early 20s maybe, total rockstar

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2h

More proof @alyankovic.bsky.social is a class act: at the close of his biggest tour yet, he posts the names of his hardworking crew for all to admire. All our faves have many folks behind the scenes, and it’s nice to see someone at the top of his game acknowledging them 💜

Bigger & Weirder 2025 Tour | "Weird Al" Yankovic

The official website of "Weird Al" Yankovic.

www.weirdal.com

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2h

The WSJ posting dopey music takes is nothing new, as someone who remembers their onetime music critic claiming cover bands are worthless because they don’t make their own music. (I pushed back on it and he was like “have fun in your garage, nerd”; motherfucker I don’t even play!)

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 14h

Ravioli is saying “go Nuno”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 14h

Ends defender logging on

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 17h

Have you seen some of the lawsuits coming out of my country? I have no doubt your writing is better.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 17h

I happened to be in a doctor’s office as Comey pled not guilty, and even the morning network anchors and reporters were having a hard time dressing the details of the case up as serious. “Can’t wait” to see how this one shakes out

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

idk how many people there are who will throw down for jim comey, but there's a helluva lot of people who will throw down for tish james

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 17h

I think about this a lot; the amount of time I spent agonizing over social posts for catalogue labels and trying to get the most obscure fun facts before I realized, “you’re in this role because you know more than most; many aren’t gonna know this stuff”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah it’s too absurd to get mad about imo

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 19h

An especially silly example, but I see "[much-celebrated legend] is underrated/overlooked" WAY too much these days. IDK if you're young, or hang with the wrong people, or are just desperate for an angle, but this is a very boring (as well as inaccurate) way to discuss someone.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 20h

wtaf are you talking about

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve been without Bluetooth headphones most of the week so I haven’t listened yet but…hmm

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 22h

Just gotta poke at the lede a little: Kanin, as far as I know, had nothing to do with Friendship, which Tim of course stars in but Andrew DeYoung wrote and directed

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 23h

The new HBO comedy ‘The Chair Company’ finds Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin pushing their sensibility to the edge, testing whether the anxious, combustible energy of ‘I Think You Should Leave’ can hold steady in a longer, more fragile form.

The Chair Company Is a Rich Text for Tim Robinson Sickos

The new HBO comedy ‘The Chair Company’ finds Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin pushing their sensibility to the edge, testing whether the anxious, combustible energy of ‘I Think You Should Leave’ can hold steady in a longer, more fragile form.

www.vulture.com

Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s not discount Indiana Groans on the left hand side

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t be the first to read “Travis Kelce mistook someone else for Greta Gerwig” and think “Frances Huh?” But if I can, I deserve at least $100

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Rolling Stone’s Record Guide apparently dinged Linda Ronstadt for having a “premature” greatest hits album, but it thus gives her a rare distinction of having two absolute banger compilations, so there’s that

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

I know, it's the Internet and we have to exaggerate, but I've seen this shared a few dozen times and I take offense at the use of "ruined." If JAWS or Beverly Hills Cop having "bad" sequels "ruins" the original for you, then you are unspeakably washed

Screenshot of a link to a Screencrush article headlined: "15 Great Movies That Were Ruined by Becoming Franchises"

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Would DJ Ol’ Youngin’ go too

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Rolling Stone headline: “There’s No Vaccine for Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome”

Ruben Rabasa in I Think You Should Leave: “Oh my God, he admit it!”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot about the kid absolutely freakin’ it to “Superstition” and the girl who improvs so much melody over the riffs to “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” that Paul Simon looks like he’s going to explode if he can’t get to his vocal cue

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

(With massive unearned confidence) Crazy to do this while Jeese is playing on the Bluetooth

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao fuck

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like it, per the P-lines!

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