Ben Apatoff
@bapatoff.bsky.social
Author of Body Count (33⅓) and Metallica: The $24.95 Book. Working on a biography of Local H for J-Card Press, scheduled for 2027.
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Ben Apatoff
@bapatoff.bsky.social
· Jan 29
Body Count's Body Count
On Ice-T's 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-eve…
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The first-ever book about Body Count, the most incendiary band in the world, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the greatest punk, metal and hip-hop artists who ever lived, for @3313books.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/us/body-coun...
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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Obliged to stump for what, as far as I know, is the only podcast series about Shattered Glass (they get some great guests!)
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Are You Mad at Me? A Shattered Glass Podcast
Two longtime political journalists, Erica C. Barnett and Josh Feit, do a monthly deep dive on the 2003 movie Shattered Glass, about the first major journalism scandal of the digital age. Stephen Glass...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Obliged to stump for what, as far as I know, is the only podcast series about Shattered Glass (they get some great guests!)
shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com
shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com
Jimmy Cliff's path from Ivanhoe Martin to Disney soundtracks is as wild as anything Ozzy or Snoop pulled off. youtu.be/ujTCZgPr5MA?...
Jimmy Cliff / Lebo M - Hakuna Matata (Lion King Soundtrack)
YouTube video by Frenky121212
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November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Jimmy Cliff's path from Ivanhoe Martin to Disney soundtracks is as wild as anything Ozzy or Snoop pulled off. youtu.be/ujTCZgPr5MA?...
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There's a holiday #sale running over on the Bloomsbury website until Sunday December 7th, which means up to 30% off 33 1/3 books! 🎄
Shop 33 1/3: https://bit.ly/4pkGgpO
Shop 33 1/3: https://bit.ly/4pkGgpO
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There's a holiday #sale running over on the Bloomsbury website until Sunday December 7th, which means up to 30% off 33 1/3 books! 🎄
Shop 33 1/3: https://bit.ly/4pkGgpO
Shop 33 1/3: https://bit.ly/4pkGgpO
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been a few "rainy night in soho" covers this year but if you haven't heard Dylan's from earlier this week. the instant audience reaction is something else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrrY...
Bob Dylan — A Rainy Night In Soho. Dublin, Ireland. November 25, 2025
YouTube video by nightly moth
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November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
been a few "rainy night in soho" covers this year but if you haven't heard Dylan's from earlier this week. the instant audience reaction is something else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrrY...
Riding in the quiet car always reminds me of Tim Kreider. www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/o...
Opinion | The Quiet Ones (Published 2012)
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November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Riding in the quiet car always reminds me of Tim Kreider. www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/o...
30% off for a short time! Called "fascinating" by @rollingstone.com, interviews w/Ice-T, Ernie C, Chuck D, Gibby Haynes, Vernon Reid, Angelo Moore, Darlene Ortiz, Duff McKagan, Doc Coyle, Randy Blythe, Max Cavalera, Heidi Cuda, Sean E. Sean, Corey Glover, more: www.bloomsbury.com/us/body-coun...
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
30% off for a short time! Called "fascinating" by @rollingstone.com, interviews w/Ice-T, Ernie C, Chuck D, Gibby Haynes, Vernon Reid, Angelo Moore, Darlene Ortiz, Duff McKagan, Doc Coyle, Randy Blythe, Max Cavalera, Heidi Cuda, Sean E. Sean, Corey Glover, more: www.bloomsbury.com/us/body-coun...
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"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
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Burr Ridge resident Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99.
Toy inventor Burt Meyer, who dreamed up Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, dies age 99
Burr Ridge resident Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Burr Ridge resident Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99.
Reminder that @3313books.bsky.social are 30% off now and make excellent holidays gifts! www.bloomsbury.com/in/discover/...
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reminder that @3313books.bsky.social are 30% off now and make excellent holidays gifts! www.bloomsbury.com/in/discover/...
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2015: it’s Black Friday!
2025: it’s Black Friday week!
2035: October is the start of Black Friday quarter!
2045: *gun to head* Black Friday starts December 26th
2025: it’s Black Friday week!
2035: October is the start of Black Friday quarter!
2045: *gun to head* Black Friday starts December 26th
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
2015: it’s Black Friday!
2025: it’s Black Friday week!
2035: October is the start of Black Friday quarter!
2045: *gun to head* Black Friday starts December 26th
2025: it’s Black Friday week!
2035: October is the start of Black Friday quarter!
2045: *gun to head* Black Friday starts December 26th
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Throwing it out there that I have a manuscript for my debut novel and am looking for an agent/publisher :)
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Throwing it out there that I have a manuscript for my debut novel and am looking for an agent/publisher :)
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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RIP early portrait of Jimmy Cliff 1980s
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
RIP early portrait of Jimmy Cliff 1980s
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Are you a woman between the ages of 40-60 with a story about paying off debt that you’d be willing to share ANONYMOUSLY?
It’s for a chapter about coping with debt in midlife We all have debt! Like, literally, all of us! Your story will help others ♥️
I’d love to hear from you. DM me!
It’s for a chapter about coping with debt in midlife We all have debt! Like, literally, all of us! Your story will help others ♥️
I’d love to hear from you. DM me!
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Are you a woman between the ages of 40-60 with a story about paying off debt that you’d be willing to share ANONYMOUSLY?
It’s for a chapter about coping with debt in midlife We all have debt! Like, literally, all of us! Your story will help others ♥️
I’d love to hear from you. DM me!
It’s for a chapter about coping with debt in midlife We all have debt! Like, literally, all of us! Your story will help others ♥️
I’d love to hear from you. DM me!
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Reggae is soul (not only soul but it is) and this is Sam Cooke level
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reggae is soul (not only soul but it is) and this is Sam Cooke level
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I hopped onto IMDB in the wee hours to peruse his list of credits and it’s truly staggering. I scrolled and scrolled. He never stopped working and made more films in a year than some successful actors make in a lifetime and inspired so many directors, played a muse to many. #Udo
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I hopped onto IMDB in the wee hours to peruse his list of credits and it’s truly staggering. I scrolled and scrolled. He never stopped working and made more films in a year than some successful actors make in a lifetime and inspired so many directors, played a muse to many. #Udo
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Marty actually loves everybody, a humanist like David Lynch or Vonnegut, even though he often makes movies about the worst humans
Okay I am rewatching GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) for the first time since I saw it in theaters and I am ashamed of myself for having completely forgotten about this cameo from the Dolls of 1863 😍😍😍
God bless you, Marty Scorsese
God bless you, Marty Scorsese
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Marty actually loves everybody, a humanist like David Lynch or Vonnegut, even though he often makes movies about the worst humans
One of the greatest I'll ever see. Superhuman levels of positive energy. www.npr.org/2012/06/05/1...
Jimmy Cliff In Concert
Hear the legendary reggae artist play nearly 50 years' worth of hits during an outdoor concert in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Bandshell.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
One of the greatest I'll ever see. Superhuman levels of positive energy. www.npr.org/2012/06/05/1...
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I just think Trump understands Mamdani is not someone he wants to tangle with. Too smart, too charismatic, too New York, too straightforward, too young. Easier targets elsewhere, like everyone who works for him and most of Congress. (1/2)
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I just think Trump understands Mamdani is not someone he wants to tangle with. Too smart, too charismatic, too New York, too straightforward, too young. Easier targets elsewhere, like everyone who works for him and most of Congress. (1/2)
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Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
Come on along with the Black Ryder
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Come on along with the Black Ryder
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WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...