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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 1d

the stars: they're just like us

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Lakers star LeBron James is sidelined for at least 3 to 4 weeks due to sciatica on his right side. He is out for the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 2d

also a reminder of the gratuitous Eddie Van Halen slander in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 10d

he looks like he’s about to announce the world’s most racist iPhone

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13d

Put together some thoughts here.

In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either.
www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

He seemed to be struggling. With drinking and with not drinking of late. Always looking for work too. What a fucking condemnation of this industry that he was ever in need of it. One of his greatest pieces ever – on Haggard – was taken down by a corporation that decided it no longer needed great writing anymore. It can only be read on the internet archive . That’s just how the industry is now I suppose. In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either. All of the rest of us scrabbling for that kind of gig just nodding in approval. That makes sense. He has that coming.

A couple years ago I offered him the most money I have ever offered anyone to write for Hell World. Not as much as he deserved mind you but a lot for me. Write about literally anything you want I said. He said he would. He promised he would write something for me multiple times over the years but one thing or another always came up. Something big just around the corner was about to happen.

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 13d

“It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.”

fuck

Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 13d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 14d

goddammit

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 15d

I made this for you bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Jan 27

if it's GOOSE with two Os, those are jam band bros

if it's GEESE with two Es, have some indie psych please

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 16d

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Orange (1994)

Julie Klausner @julieklausner.bsky.social · 16d

Sexual Matador records, is that anything???????

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 16d

"we want to do that ourselves"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Vance: "Look, just because we don't support illegal aliens, we don't want them to be executed by violent assassins engaged in political violence."

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 18d

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 21d

if you were given 100 guesses to name the opening act for the who’s hollywood bowl show you would not get it

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 21d

salute to @cwarzel.bsky.social for achieving the life/career highlights of talking to jon stewart and being complimented by michael stipe and still have it feel utterly depressing

Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 21d

This conversation this week is so on point and sloshes through the muddy water of the internet platforms towards something much clearer

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 21d

Jon and @cwarzel.bsky.social discuss the ways that algorithms and social media incentives have upended free speech.

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 21d

yeah what’s up BML

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 21d

had a dream last night that I was starring in Waiting for Godot alongside @alexwinter.com instead of Keanu and I'd never read the script so I was just kind of riffing and people were super mad, also I am not an actor so it was a weird choice all around

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 22d

you should call your senator and tell him this

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24d

If you enjoyed Rolling Stone’s reporting and output over the past four years or so, it is a fact that it would not be what it is without @lisatozzi.bsky.social

That is just a fact, so hire her immediately if you want that for your media outlet, k?

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 24d

when I was a PA on QUIZ SHOW, one of my first tasks was to buy Robert Redford like a 20 pound jar of pistachios for his birthday, RIP to a real one*

*fan of pistachios

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · 29d

I listen to this song every year on this date, no idea why—it doesn’t remind me of anyone or anything, I don’t remember why I started or why it agreed with me. it’s just a nice normal thing on a day that could use it, good job @willjohnsonmusic.bsky.social music.apple.com/us/album/pic...

Picking up Too Fast by Centro-Matic on Apple Music

Song · 2003 · Duration 3:04

music.apple.com

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Sep 10

Roses are red
But violets impress her

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · Sep 10

d4vd thanks concertgoers and throws out Labubus as coroner releases details about murder victim found in his Tesla

d4vd Tosses Labubus From The Stage As Coroner Releases Details About Murder Victim Found In His Tesla

While the genre-blurring musical artist d4vd is out on tour, his Tesla has been sitting in an impound lot in Hollywood. Monday, responding to reports of a foul stench emanating from the car, police fo...

www.stereogum.com

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Sep 7

pretty sure liam said he was staying in santa monica and I know it's the weekend but the 10 to 110 can still get super backed up, I hope he's giving himself enough time

Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Sep 7

never-before-seen levels of wearing the band’s shirt to the show at oasis

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Sep 6

which cut of apocalypse now do we think the president of the united states prefers, does he think the french plantation scene goes on too long

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Sep 6

during the pandemic I started a playlist of the best songs from the post-reunion era and I tapped out like six albums in, there have been 20 since

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Sep 4

it’s almost like people are willfully forgetting that robin lopez went to high school in fresno

Luke Bonner @lukeybonner.bsky.social · Sep 3

You guys think my brother is the first guy who has played in the NBA to attend a Deftones concert? Or do we think Cherokee Parks beat him to it?

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Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social · Sep 3

selling your media company on craigslist has its risks

Spin Magazine Sale Collapses After Buyer Doesn’t Wire the Money

The owner of the brand had been in talks for eight months to be sold to a Florida-based music app company. A deal was said to be in place — but the closing cash wasn't sent.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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