Sure every presidential assassination has been committed by an absolutely batshit crazy person. Including attempts by a Manson Family member and someone trying to impress Jodie Fosters. But no this was definitely the only group of dudes at Langley in the 60s who didn’t spill info to impress women.

I’ve got friends who are big Kennedy truthers and I’m always like look…the idea that no one at the big bad CIA would have ever said anything to a mistress or a bartender ever is the unthinkable part.

Trying to picture giving this response to someone asking you about some crazy shit the VP said at a normal job and my brain is fried.

This is the logic and operational procedures of the Einsatzgruppen during the eastern front. Heydrich would be at home.

I know we’re doing baseball here but my mind went Poland: The Baltimore Ravens. Once a regarded Franchise in a different location and ownership. Saw long period of poor management and stagnation for much of the latter 20th century. Major change in the 90s and now a perennial powerhouse.

Personally I prefer spending my Saturday afternoons watching Netflix and eating sour cream and onion chips rather than serving in the Tri-State Liberation Army during the Parkway Offensive.

Zach Cregger* damnit!

Zach Krieger started writing it immediately after Trevor Moore died. I think it’s about trying to process the loss of someone you love who is gone without reason or clarity. One day they’re just not there and you’re left to deal with it. School shootings are a stark example of this.

Look, Brendan listens. He shows genuine care and consideration for others. Plus he’s got a sense of humor! It doesn’t sound like much but it’s really the whole world.

This is my Laptop. There are many in the world like it, but this one is mine.

My Laptop is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

His obsession with hating on Paul Dano, one of the best actors of his generation, is like bordering on compulsive. I’m sorry he wasn’t as good as Daniel Day Lewis in a role he picked up in a coupe days in his early 20s? And still pulled off legendary scenes like this: youtu.be/1B-L4xLWaUQ

Not indie rock related but my favorite second act is Nnamdi Asomugha, who at one time was the best cornerback in the NFL, retiring and becoming an award winning stage and film actor: m.imdb.com/name/nm30604...

Daniel Blumberg won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his score for the Brutalist. Did not see that coming from the lead singer of Yuck! But that first album still kicks ass and it’s super cool seeing him succeed in this second career phase.

You see. Before he was the teacher in Spider-Man or the tornado hunter in Twisters — Tunde Adebimpe was the lead singer of one of the best band of the 2000s. You’d never think it now while watching Skeleton Crew, but that man brought the falsetto to Brooklyn.

Did Pitchfork gain cultural relevance with Gen Z? The TikTok hate videos for Getting Killed I’m seeing on my feed for some reason talk about Pitchfork in a way I haven’t heard since Spotify and poptimism took over. I’m happily drinking Metamucil like, good for the kids they got their Veckatimest.

Cassette, cd, or other small merch of a fave band
Photos of special or fun times
Good candy
Pack or two of cigarettes for a smoker
Airplane bottles of nice or fun liquors for a drinker