Timely and well-constructed observation by Dan Moore incoming: The first three seasons of Arrested Development are not a TV show, they're their own separate and unnameable thing
February 12, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Timely and well-constructed observation by Dan Moore incoming: The first three seasons of Arrested Development are not a TV show, they're their own separate and unnameable thing
Melvin keeps inadvertently picking fights with Nancy by saying "I'm thequeen!" while they're playing. She instantly snaps—No, I'M the queen! You're the king!—because she does not understand that he's saying he's Lightning McQueen from Cars. For some reason I cannot explain this to either one of them
February 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Melvin keeps inadvertently picking fights with Nancy by saying "I'm thequeen!" while they're playing. She instantly snaps—No, I'M the queen! You're the king!—because she does not understand that he's saying he's Lightning McQueen from Cars. For some reason I cannot explain this to either one of them
The crazy thing about the John Cheever bio is that Cheever is one of the great American drunks and his father and brother (both named Fred) were at least a full step drunker than he was. Read the Shady Hill stories though
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The crazy thing about the John Cheever bio is that Cheever is one of the great American drunks and his father and brother (both named Fred) were at least a full step drunker than he was. Read the Shady Hill stories though
Weezer absolutely crushed it at the Prohibition Party's Super Bowl Halftime Show, wish you guys could have seen it but everybody thought everybody else was going to bring the camera
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Weezer absolutely crushed it at the Prohibition Party's Super Bowl Halftime Show, wish you guys could have seen it but everybody thought everybody else was going to bring the camera
I am nearly 50 years old. If anything in popular culture has the barest whiff of familiarity to me, I am hyper-aware that I am being directly targeted by a marketing strategy
February 9, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I am nearly 50 years old. If anything in popular culture has the barest whiff of familiarity to me, I am hyper-aware that I am being directly targeted by a marketing strategy
Listening to the rest of Keiichi Suzuki's MOTHER MUSIC REVISITED album from 2021 today (I'd mostly only heard Flying Man before this). The little "I miss you" sample in Fallin' Love... nice
February 7, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Listening to the rest of Keiichi Suzuki's MOTHER MUSIC REVISITED album from 2021 today (I'd mostly only heard Flying Man before this). The little "I miss you" sample in Fallin' Love... nice
It's my pleasure to announce, after a few years' consideration, that "Come Dancing" by the Kinks has received the coveted Perfect Song/Perfect Video award from copywriter and longtime music listener Dan Moore. Ray Davies can come pick the award up from my desk at his earliest convenience
It's my pleasure to announce, after a few years' consideration, that "Come Dancing" by the Kinks has received the coveted Perfect Song/Perfect Video award from copywriter and longtime music listener Dan Moore. Ray Davies can come pick the award up from my desk at his earliest convenience
The only limit on the number of videos about "Peg" by Steely Dan that I'm capable of watching at 10:30 on a Saturday night is the number of times the various players have been interviews about it
February 1, 2026 at 5:36 AM
The only limit on the number of videos about "Peg" by Steely Dan that I'm capable of watching at 10:30 on a Saturday night is the number of times the various players have been interviews about it
I don't think I'm ready to try Vollman but this is a high-level cover for a debut by a weird novelist... like, the stranger your book is, the harder it should be to determine the year it was published, what it's about, etc. Ideally you dump "A novel by" too... go fully inscrutable
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I don't think I'm ready to try Vollman but this is a high-level cover for a debut by a weird novelist... like, the stranger your book is, the harder it should be to determine the year it was published, what it's about, etc. Ideally you dump "A novel by" too... go fully inscrutable
Related to this, I've been thinking about the category of "Tech that is real but exists almost exclusively in glossy children's books." What am I missing?
1. Astronaut jetpack used three times ~40 years ago 2. Monorails (also represented here) 3. Hovercrafts 4. Hydrofoil boats
Nancy's homework has writing in it now so I finally got to put the children's dictionary I bought years ago into play. Love that it has the astronaut MMU photo that universally denotes 80s/90s educational content, just like my childhood encyclopedia did
January 30, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Related to this, I've been thinking about the category of "Tech that is real but exists almost exclusively in glossy children's books." What am I missing?
1. Astronaut jetpack used three times ~40 years ago 2. Monorails (also represented here) 3. Hovercrafts 4. Hydrofoil boats
Nancy's homework has writing in it now so I finally got to put the children's dictionary I bought years ago into play. Love that it has the astronaut MMU photo that universally denotes 80s/90s educational content, just like my childhood encyclopedia did
January 30, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Nancy's homework has writing in it now so I finally got to put the children's dictionary I bought years ago into play. Love that it has the astronaut MMU photo that universally denotes 80s/90s educational content, just like my childhood encyclopedia did
This guy's book kind of changed my life last year... did not know what he looked like but frankly I'm glad it's this. I'm like the guys in midcentury novels who traveled east to learn from Buddhist monks in the Himalayas, only the wisdom of the ancients is unfashionable baby-boomer self-help stuff
January 28, 2026 at 5:53 AM
This guy's book kind of changed my life last year... did not know what he looked like but frankly I'm glad it's this. I'm like the guys in midcentury novels who traveled east to learn from Buddhist monks in the Himalayas, only the wisdom of the ancients is unfashionable baby-boomer self-help stuff