Brian Nicholson
briannicholson.bsky.social
Brian Nicholson
@briannicholson.bsky.social
repulsed
Whenever some conservative complains about the liberal entertainment industry, Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl etc., you gotta say "yeah bitch, you are boring to listen to and the purpose of spectacle is to distract from class war so you don't get strung up - Did you not ctrl-F Jay-Z in the files?"
February 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Something about seventies comics I only recently learned, and still have a hard time wrapping my head around? is that as horror and romance comics sales declined simultaneously, there'd be titles from DC and Charlton consolidating both approaches. Valentine's Day and Halloween all in one, for girls
February 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Really loved @cccilla.bsky.social's That Away Comix (available via @dominocomics.bsky.social): Beautiful silkscreened covers, guts that apply the weedhead record collector mentality many are familiar with to a collective consciousness of appropriated comic characters (whose cameos I won't spoil)
February 15, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This TV show from Zagreb is on Tubi now and having watched the first episode I can confirm it's delightful
Professor Balthazar - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Probably not appropriate to jam this this time of year unless you live in the Southern hemisphere because this is that hot shit but I'm playing it right now and maybe you too feel the need to boogie down
Disco Documentary - Full Of Funk, by Nana Love
10 track album
nanalove.bandcamp.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
It rocks that if you look up Norma Tanega: I Don't Think It Will Hurt If You Smile on Discogs the recommendations at the bottom of the page are Faust IV, Alice Coltrane, Scott 4, Virginia Astley, Big Star, Cocteau Twins, Young Marble Giants, Annette Peacock, and The Faust Tapes
February 13, 2026 at 1:06 AM
New character: Guy who insists you can't "read" music
February 11, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Brian Nicholson
This is what they meant by 'make weirder art'
February 10, 2026 at 8:25 AM
When I was a teen reading Grant Morrison comics I saw Bjork's "Army Of Me" video and thought Michel Gondry could do a Doom Patrol movie. This was before Human Nature came out, but years after these things were first released. I was a precocious teen who should've lost my virginity to an older woman
February 10, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Don't agree with Bad Bunny's political message (you should dump someone if they don't eat ass) but it seems far less extreme than the position taken by Kid Rock (you should be deported if you don't like getting shit on)
February 9, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Even if you're not a conspiracy theorist, it might be helpful to think "Epstein didn't die" in the same metaphorical sense you might say the Confederacy won the Civil War in the long term, or the Nazis won WWII. Their influence continues
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I live in an old house in south Philly, heated by a 250-gallon oil tank. We got it refilled a little over a month ago, but it is so cold that we are out of oil again - something I worried about happening last week but dismissed my fears with a "we filled it a month ago." It's chilly folks
February 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
All of the curse words we use to emphasize how cold it is outside are used for heat as well. The only expression used specifically for something being cold - a witch's tits - is in actuality the hottest of them all
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The rabbit did nothing wrong. It doesn't know what Christmas is
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Print magazines can escape the panopticon of social media judgment and that's a good thing but it is very funny the new issue of Mineshaft (47) has a transcript of R Crumb talking to ChatGPT about Pfizer. I do think whoever's idea this was should likely be charged with elder abuse
February 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Me And My Cat
February 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Ed Emberley woodcut print on display at the Philadelphia Free Library main branch
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Cracking up about a character in a James Bond movie being named Lolita Espresso
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Interested in this one, coming later this year. Evenson intro is a good sign
The Statuary Gardens
In an unnamed country where the men cultivate statues and the women are nowhere to be seen, a traveler takes a room at an inn. One foggy morning, a mysterious man invites him to take him on a tour of ...
www.nyrb.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Thank you Letterboxd for reminding me that the sampled dialogue at the end of this is taken from the early '90s erotic thriller THE LAST SEDUCTION
billy woods & August Fanon "Funny Games" feat. Fatboi Sharif [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
YouTube video by billy woods
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Shoppin for clothes at the thrift store thinking "I'm trying to dress like someone who listens to Yellow Magic Orchestra and if someone thinks I listen to Vampire Weekend I will kill myself"
February 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This guy was in Q And Not U, which is interesting, as my Q regarding these layoffs for Jeff Bezos is: And not U?
I’ve been laid off by The Washington Post

Serving as this newspaper’s pop music critic for the past 16-plus years has been my privilege, my joy

Endless solidarity to my righteous colleagues, endless gratitude to our faithful readers
February 4, 2026 at 7:27 PM
This would surely sound great on a turntable, damn
African Skies, by Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy
7 track album
kelanphilcohranlegacy.bandcamp.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Yeah i'm on the spectrum... the visible light spectrum! My invisibility technology failed because I'm not that interested in physics it turns out
February 3, 2026 at 4:32 AM
The razzing Greg Giraldo would've given him over this
Nick Dipaolo being in the Epstein files is the most Guys+ story of all time
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM