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These stickers are now free at my store, and will be available until there’s some justice for Alex Pretti and everyone else.

Billionaire CEOs Party With Trump and Melania After His Goons Kill Nurse Apple CEO Tim Cook traveled to the White House on the same day a Border Patrol agent shot a Veterans Affairs nurse dead in Minneapolis.

This is the least of the things as our reign of terror era dawns, but that the heads of Apple and Amazon spent the evening after Trump’s fascists murdered American hero Alex Pretti chomping popcorn at the white house fills me with white hot anger. I will never give either company another dime.

I thought it might be the Paul Williams of the Temptations, but if it’s a seventies album that’s obviously not the one

Government work, when it works at all, is by nature collaborative and never the work of one person. But I think I can safely say this new school zone around Memorial Elementary wouldn’t have happened without me. It’s no playground from Ikiru, but I’m proud of it. As my term ends, it’s one last win.

MOUNTAIN GOATS LISTENERS LISTEN UP: This new John Darnielle book is like the platonic ideal object for my record/book store. Makes a great gift for fans! Already outsold the Olivia Nuzzi scandal memoir. Find it on our Recently Published display table.

THE OBLIGATORY HOLIDAY POST(ER): Hung a few movie posters above the soundtracks section in our Royal Tenenbaums inspired pink room. That seasonally appropriate Home Alone one made its way to us from the Cinema Center, our local nineties movie mecca in the pre-AMC days. Ah, Bloomsburg lore!

IS THIS THE BIGGEST HOUSEPLANT IN A RECORD/BOOKSTORE TODAY? If there were a prize, I’d like to think our fiddle leaf fig would be prizewinning. Big enough to cover whatever shame you got. Not for sale, but I can promise that, like the fig, your brain and spirit will thrive in these fertile environs.

Personally, I kinda like that Tarantino is willing to express his weird unjustifiable strong movie opinions publicly. It’s just an opinion. We all know Paul Dano was good in TWBB. But not as good as he was in Prisoners. If you wanna criticize Dano, The Girl Next Door is RIGHT THERE.

The main character of Eye of the Beholder in a world of topsy turvy aesthetics

YOUR GEESE IS COOKED: I feel like the woman in the Twilight Zone episode “Eye of the Beholder” every time I see Geese top best album of the year lists. Working up my own list now and I can assure you of what will be conspicuous in its absence. Not a great music year, but surely better than THAT.

RSD BLACK FRIDAY STUFF READY TO GO FOR TOMORROW: May the odds be ever in your favor. Gentleman, at dawn we ride. (Well really just 10 AM like usual, but it ain’t afternoon…)

GOOD ALBUMS OF 2025: Nation of Language have been the reigning best 80s band that’s actually from the 2020s for the whole post-pandemic world, and they’re not giving up the crown with their Sub Pop debut “Dance Called Memory.” I just think it’s a crime that “In Your Head” is buried at Track 9.

Roses are red, dough’s gotta rest
RFK Jr. has a weird personal definition of “harvest”
“On the Beach” is still Neil’s best
But now the phrase “Harvest Moon” has got me distressed

Last week I was in Wilkes-Barre and caught them with their caulk out. To be clear, it’s stuck like a barnacle to the curb. NEPA life.

Just finished reading Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland and oof, what an OK boomer novel. Everything funny and dare I say Pynchonesque in One Battle After Another comes from P.T Anderson, not the source book. Give him the best adapted screenplay oscar for that turd polish.

Politics, Policy, Political News - POLITICO Nobody knows politics like POLITICO.

The Politico headline today is “Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump ‘knew about the girls’”. No shit, Sherlock.
Coincidentally, a Sherlock Holmes story is the source of the phrase “the dog who hasn’t barked” that Epstein also described Trump with. The Complete Holmes available now in store

Lemme get this straight—this year’s Booker prize winning novel is titled “Flesh”? Was “Moist” already taken?

#10 I can do the same thing for their absolute lowest rated album, 1981’s Renegade, which is totally salvageable if you rummage through the singles and outtakes. But this is enough Thin Lizzy’s for one night.

#9 Track 11: Sugar Blues. Back to a similar choogle as the title track to close out the album. Just say no, Phil! (He didn’t). Snowy White is pretty great in this. This is such a better closer than Hey You it’s ridiculous.

And there you have it, I made Thin Lizzy’s 2nd worst-rated record great.

#8 Track 9: It’s Going Wrong. An outtake. Poppy, with a great solo. Genocide replaced it on the released version. That’s a good song and all, but I like the lightness of this original running order.
Track 10: The Story of My Life. Another unfinished one, had the makings of a great Phil confessional.

#7 Track 7: Having a Good Time. Great Side Two opener, in it’s proper slot in the actual LP. This song is underrated, I think School of Rock era Jack Black played it in his trailer every morning to get in character. Hit me with that drum!
Track 8: Sweetheart. Another newwave rocker, belongs on the B

#6 Track 6: Hey You. The faux reggae intro demonstrates Phil Lynott was keeping up with the young punks. He definitely heard the Clash and early Elvis Costello. The meat of the tune is more trad rock, but it’s at least as good as BTO’s Hey You, which ain’t bad.
And that’s the end of Side One.

#5 Track 5: Killer On The Loose. A nice thematic follow up to the last one. Punky and brash, this is like if the Stones Shattered were good. The treated vocals on the Jack the Ripper spoken word bridge make this a strong contender for a Halloween mix. Sure it’s the 2nd track with laughter, so what?

#4 Track 3: Didn’t I. What a great ballad. It gets lost on side two, but batting third it blooms like the harmonized guitar riff in the middle.
Track 4: Don’t Play Around. This was a B-Side, a rocker with a new wave flavor, kicks up the excitement again before we peak with the next one.

#3 Track 1: Chinatown. Of course this LP should start with this. What a monster riff at the beginning. I play this one in the second set of my show, it’s the most difficult one, peak butt rock, feels indestructible when you get it right.
Track 2: We Will Be Strong. The actual opener is better here

#2 record, Black Rose (which to these ears is Sarah and some other songs). The real problem with Chinatown is the sequencing isn’t great and they left off two songs that should’ve been on. Wikipedia goes into the initial proposed tracklist, and it makes a good record great. Here it follows. Side A

#1 People don’t appreciate it because the 2nd guitar player on that record is Snowy White, replacing the flashier Gary Moore. But people, Snowy White was good enough to be Pink Floyd’s touring guitarist. He’s fine. His soloing is good. I like the Chinatown songs better than the better-rated previous

THE THIN LIZZY ERA IS COMING TO AN END: Friday I’m playing and singing the whole Jailbreak LP at Brewskis in downtown Bloomsburg (7 PM! No cover!), which is rad but will mean the end of my Thin Lizzy era. I’ve drunk deep, and here’s what I’ve learned. #1: The Chinatown LP is underrated (cont. below)

It’s a victory for sandwiches everywhere.

If the wrapper ain’t split, you must acquit!