Josh Langhoff

Gee I'm Glad It's Raining (Ernest Goes to Camp)
I've Had the Time of My Life (Dirty Dancing)
You're Just In Love (Call Me Madam, haven't seen)
When Your Mind's Made Up (Once)
Happy Working Song (Enchanted)

"yeah, she was all alone/ with no friends, and no phone"

1. Rachilde, Monsieur Vénus (1884) 2. Irene Clyde, Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909) 3. Claude Cahun, Disavowals (1930) 4. Michael Dillon, Out of the Ordinary (pre-1962, published 2016) 5. Red Jordan Arobateau, The Bars Across Heaven (1975) 6. Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav (1985) 7. Rachel Pollack, Unquenchable Fire (1988) 8. Pedro Lemebel, A Last Supper of Queer Apostles (1990s-2000s, English translation 2024) 9. Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, Yemaya’s Daughters (2014) 10. Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (2016) 11. Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) 12. Never Angeline North, Sea-Witch (2017-2020) 13. Jordy Rosenberg, Confessions of the Fox (2018) 14. Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (2019) 15. Shola von Reinhold, Lote (2020) 16. Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night (2020) 17. Harry Josephine Giles, Deep Wheel Orcadia (2021) 18. Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars (2021) 19. Callum Angus, A Natural History of Transition (2021) 20. Camila Sosa Villada, I’m a Fool to Want You (2022)

this is not the WHOLE list but this is a list I have created that I am calling "A Lineage of Speculation and WTF-ery in Trans Literature" pls enjoy

(note that this is just like, my opinion man. many other things could be included. many famous examples are missing)

the horse and its rider has he hurled into the sea

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

I'm digging:

Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (R&b)
DJ Dremond - Detroit Institute of Art Volume 1 (boom-bap)
Angelika Niescier - Chicago Tapes (free jazz)
The Tomeka Reid Quartet - dance! skip! hop! (string band jazz)
Converge - Love Is Not Enough (metal)
JOOST - Kleinkunst (stupid gabber)

Vinyl Battle: Local H spars with label over 'As Good as Dead' pressing Scott Lucas says the Chicago band was caught off-guard by news of Enjoy the Ride Records' planned 30th-anniversary re-issue.

Wild story about a vinyl reissue of Local H's "As Good As Dead." I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. vanyaland.com/2026/02/06/v...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Let's stand and roll our shoulders around!"

The Labyrinth and Its Escape Going Through Old Notebooks Part 19: On the Oulipo movement, the found rough draft, and writing with constraints.

On the Oulipo movement, the found rough draft, and writing with constraints.

"Supermodel (She's Homeless)"

reading your timeline like

Does anyone else spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about what Sabrina Carpenter and Lee Hazlewood could have done together?

YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic El Paso (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/16-20/74) (2017 Remaster)

Today I officially became a guy who says things like "holy shit, dude, that version of El Paso on Steal Your Face"

Research Highlight: Deep-Sea Churro Finds its Evolutionary Home Churros, the delicious snacks covered with cinnamon sugar and served with hot chocolate, have a doppelganger in the deep sea. The deep-sea worm named after the deep-fried sticks of dough was recently ...

With all the madness going on, a one-holed worm thing with a no brain or any identifiable organs is quietly crawling somewhere on the ocean floor--and it is named after a churro. #xenoturbella_churro

scripps.ucsd.edu/news/researc...

"donald trump is the sovereign instantiation of the popular will and so of course the constitution is whatever he says it is"

How Racket, Minneapolis’s Worker-Owned Newsroom, Is Covering Its Hometown Fascist Invasion “This is the worst fucking time. But watching people’s response to ICE has been the most affirming thing in the world.”

"This is the worst fucking time. But watching people's response to ICE has just been the most affirming thing in the world.” We interviewed our friends over at @racketmn.com about what it’s like to cover the crisis in Minneapolis as community-centered journalists

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"We see Faust call up his magical powers, and a marvelous cosmic vision unfolds before his (and our) eyes."

grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for evermore

Interviewer: and how do you maintain your trim figure

Prince: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! PORTION CONTROL!

Hey all, if you're spiraling I've got a couple of psychological first aid tips that can help until you're able to process with an actual professional.

Do: name what you feel in your body very specifically. Don't link it to emotions yet. Name "my stomach hurts" and "my chest feels tight" and

son just alerted me to the existence of a product called "Tiny Vinyls" and I have pulled out all my hair

Black light-sensitive paint reflected off tinfoil; four quadrants, each showing the same facelike image in different shades of violet red and green

Quad

The fact that the very first VU review ever in print is from a column called “Teen Talk” and the headline is “Blobs and Blurbs” is providing me with the delighted, peaceful feeling I require to walk into 2026 with.

E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone by Michael Ward MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

BOOKS FINISHED 2025 Winner of the annual Willa Cather "OMG I just want to keep reading this and reading this" award: The Man Who Loved Children; which, in a not super mind-blowing year, is also in the running for the annual Riddley Walker "OMG I didn't know books could DO this" award, along with Titus Groan; That said, lots of really good books here. MUSIC De La Soul - Dave Heaton, 2024 In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor - Philip Freeman, 2024 Hip Hop Is History - Questlove with Ben Greenman, 2024 White Limozeen (Dolly Parton 33 ⅓) - Steacy Easton, 2024 Anastasia: Piano-Vocal score - Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens, 2017 Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903-1940 - Gary Giddins, 2001 City of Angels: Keyboard 1 score - Cy Coleman, 1989 (arr. 1992) Improvisation - Derek Bailey, 1980 (expanded ‘92 edition) Sweeney Todd: Vocal Score - Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, 1979 The Wizard of Oz: Rehearsal Piano score - Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Herbert Stothart, and John Kane, 1987/’39 OTHER NONFICTION Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus - Elaine Pagels, 2025 In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space - Irvin Weathersby Jr., 2025 The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2024 How To Be Normal - Phil Christman, 2022 A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto - China Miéville, 2022 Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann, 2017 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder, 2017 Space In Motion - Juan Goytisolo (tr. Helen R. Lane), 1987

The Agony of Christianity - Miguel de Unamuno (tr. Kurt F. Reinhardt), 1925 Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels (tr. Edward Aveling), 1883 The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (tr. Samuel Moore; Penguin edition with interminable Gareth Stedman Jones intro), 1848 FICTION Nimona - ND Stevenson, 2015 Veronica - Mary Gaitskill, 2005 Vineland - Thomas Pynchon, 1990 Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson, 1985 V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd, 1982/89 Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler, 1980 Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig (tr. Thomas Colchie), 1976 Heat & Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1975 Ice - Anna Kavan, 1967 All Fires the Fire - Julio Cortázar (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), 1966 Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess, 1964 The Baron In the Trees - Italo Calvino (tr. Archibald Colquhoun), 1959 Pincher Martin - William Golding, 1956 Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake, 1946 (r. Simon Vance) The Invention of Morel and Other Stories - Adolfo Bioy Casares (tr. Ruth L.C. Simms), 1940/48 The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead, 1940 Tropisms - Nathalie Sarraute (tr. Maria Jolas), 1939/57 Murphy - Samuel Beckett, 1938 Envy - Yuri Olesha (tr. Andrew R. MacAndrew), 1927 Nana - Émile Zola (tr. Ernest Alfred Vizetelly?), 1880 Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen, 1799/1818

BOOKS FINISHED 2025

top 5 "omg I just want to keep reading this and reading this" novels:
The Man Who Loved Children
Titus Groan
Nana
Wild Seed
Murphy

2 crucial references to keep on the shelf forever:
In the Brewing Luminous
A Spectre, Haunting

2025 recapped

D'Wayne Wiggins, at the beginning of his journey as a member of what turned out to be the last great American R&B band, believed in connection, cooperation and what so often emerged from both: fellowship, mercy, song [🎁 link] www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great list and writing here, and I can get behind this:

"About five or six EUSEXUA tracks could have made this list,"