Chris Phillips

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

Well… I have. And not only that, I have rocked down to there.

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Hitting the 10/31 Boris show! 🩷🎃

Come on, you guys, is all this really any way to speak about an actual Grand Moff in the Galactic Empire?

Two middle fingers up!
(in a good way)

Koji Shiraishi’s SENRITSU KAIKI series, kinda hands down.

How many horror franchises keep getting more fun as they go along?

Carpenter’s Halloween may be better… but the Halloween franchise is not.

Thanks for writing this, CLR — we saw the Durham show 9 days prior, and you captured the thoughts buzzing around my head… while being more charitable than I’d been feeling, so this helps me reframe it for myself.

“Near mint? Or vg++?”

“Give Me It” or “A Hundred Years” might be fairer use

“George, I don’t even understand your question — I’m just an unfrozen caveman lawyer, George, I don’t know what an audio tape is! Is there a gremlin inside that transcribes conversations?”

Only if the fight scene goes on for AT LEAST five minutes straight and shows all the action, no montages.

I’ve been making this case for awhile now, and I think it should especially be the case in legacy media. The Associated Press needs to issue a style edict that “antifa” should always be spelled out as anti-fascist. How about it, @apnews.com? If you disagree, I’d like to hear your counterargument.

oh yes, do go on

And he was born in the back seat of a moving taxicab

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Also no moment when Jesus spoke out specifically against upholstering with human skin or fashioning a belt from nipples, but I think we can safely infer his take

Same year as the @amnesty.org Human Rights Now! tour, which couldn’t have hurt

At the 1988 state finals for Essay Writing (90 minutes, no reference materials), i thought I was dead in the water when the theme was Current Events. Then i got my topic: Apartheid in South Africa.

Lifted details from “Sun City” and “Biko” and came in 1st.

“In Port Elizabeth, in September 1977…”

Since Springsteen, Waits, Westerberg and the Beasties (even at two/thirds strength) have gotten love already, let’s go with… Kathleen Edwards!

Sub in Waits for Tweedy, and that’s my answer too. RIP MCA

@laurahooq.bsky.social your kind of town, Chicago is

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

John Carpenter covering current events:

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

You think YOU have a black widow’s peak?? We have the blackest and peakiest widows peaks!!!

Just wait til you hear what Gary Venezuelan-Drugboat is saying!

If you are interested in the climate crisis and how to prepare yourself, you need to be listening to, reading, and following Alex Steffen. This thread is a great place to start.
@alexsteffen.bsky.social