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mike hogan
@therealhogan.bsky.social
former musician (full-time), former writer (part-time), current creative director.

stuff & things

thoughts are mine
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Phil Collins (social media)
Phil Collins released "I Wish It Would Rain Down" #OnThisDay in 1990 as the second single from "...But Seriously".
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
This whole record rules, but this song in particular feels like “chase this light” era Jimmy and I’m not one bit mad about it

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Float (feat. Jim Adkins) by Jay Som on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:27
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October 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A breathtaking “Deez Nuts” own.
"stick to menswear"
August 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This album has the goods

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Autofiction by Far Caspian on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 11 Songs
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July 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Age verification? My first concert was Metallica and Guns and Roses in Dallas in the 8th grade. I watched a 300 pound man pummel about 20 dudes into dust in the pit. Faith no More opened and Mike Patton deep-throated the mic. GnR played an entire set!
age verification? I saw the Toadies with Billy Joe Winghead as Rubbernecking was blowing up and though I was in 8th grade you could still smoke inside the Diamond Ballroom which was also 200 degrees Fahrenheit
age verification? my first concert was Lit opening for Garbage, with free tickets I won on the radio
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Spent the better part of a decade trying to convince Congress that PEPFAR was a good investment. Warms my heart that AG is willing to show more spine than many of those Congress people who paid lip service in private but wouldn’t support publicly because it wasn’t politically advantageous.
Amy Grant hive, we simply don’t know how to lose.
“Hi, Senator Hagerty, hi, this is Amy Grant,” she said. “I’m standing on stage singing to over a thousand people … We want you to know that here in Nashville we want to see full funding of PEPFAR so we can stay on track to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.” www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/amy-...
July 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“Spilt Milk” by Jellyfish is perfect, except for “My Best Friend.” It goes.
Songs about your wang age like milk, no matter how amazing a musician you are.
All these no-skip albums I wanna hear about the 1-skip albums and what song should have been cut
July 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Still giving thanks that I saw RFTC back in the day. Just ripping one heater after another.

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Rocket from the Crypt On A Rope YouTube
YouTube video by xedgethsx
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June 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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'Extraordinary Machine' happened mostly because Jon Brion begged Fiona Apple (during their "weekly lunch") to do an album with him as a distraction from his mid-'Punch Drunk Love' breakup with Mary Lynn Rajskub??? I knew absolutely none of this
May 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
April 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Spooling up the ole Silk Road for illicit Ethiopian coffee, direct to my kitchen
something I haven't seen yet: isn't a massive increase in the range of goods worth smuggling going to be a big boost to exactly the kind of cross-border organized crime the WH claims it wants to stop?
April 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It was a hollow award to begin with
April 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
NYC, 2015
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Worked in Advocacy for these programs for the better part of a decade. They are the real deal.
It hurts to see all the good work these programs have done so casually dismissed for what? Political points with the base?
Just a bunch of fucking idiots too dumb to see the blood on their hands.
US imperialism is full of evil things but PEPFAR was actually life-saving for once and of course these ghouls target it
Appalling cruelty beyond comprehension. Trump is ordering an immediate, unlawful shutdown of PEPFAR, potentially denying life-saving HIV medication to millions of people. This guarantees a lethal, global resurgence of the HIV epidemic. Just unfathomable sadism. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
January 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It had all the potential. RIP to a real one.
January 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
As per my every-four-year tradition

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The National - Fake Empire (Live) | Montreux Jazz Festival 2024
YouTube video by Montreux Jazz Festival
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January 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Zooropa hive, rise up
“I’m awarding this specifically for your underrated and adventurous 1993 album ZOOROPA.”
January 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Goose rules, man
January 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I love this album.
Messy, raw, joyful, sorrowful and quiet… it sounds like the season feels to me the older I get

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Night Divine by Brian Fallon on Apple Music
Album · 2021 · 10 Songs
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December 21, 2024 at 11:28 PM
FWIW, literally sitting in an ER room right now with a loved one, who is on some serious antibiotics, with my insurance card in the seat next to me and an estimated bill for care that I know we can’t pay.
December 6, 2024 at 7:06 AM