Craig Nickels

The stirrups are a vibe.

It would be like if Piggies was the breakout hit of the White Album.

The album is an all-time great, but I find Shiny Happy People to be nearly unlistenable (and, really, not a good representation of the rest of the album). And I know there are people who love Losing My Religion, but I am not one of them.

I'm not sure how to articulate this, but is there a rock album in history with a bigger gap between quality of the album and quality of the singles than Out Of Time by REM?

the last thing I’ll see before dying

Your "I DON'T DO COCAINE" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by your "I DON'T DO COCAINE" shirt

Pre EuroBasket, way-too-early NBA MVP prognostication for 25-26:
1. Luka Dončić - media can't help but love the #RevengeBod, fourth-seeded #Lakers
2. Nikola Jokić - Wins the West, does Joker shit.
3. Giannis Antetokounmpo - Averages 33-12-9, everyone says East is meh.
4. SGA - We're bored already.

This is what I’m saying!

Newspaper clipping with news about Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off of a bat juxtaposed with an article about British critics panning Barry Manilow's performance at the Royal Albert Hall

"So what's new in music news?"
"Well Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off of a real bat and had to go to the hospital"
"Anything else?"
"Yeah Barry Manilow sucks ass"

The Daily Tribune
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin •
Sat, Jan 23, 1982
Page 3

“My boss and my boss’s boss are coming with me.” 👀👀👀

YouTube video by beercan640 Turnin' up the Heat - Milwaukee Brewers

Turnin' up the Heat - Milwaukee Brewers by Terry W. Sweet

youtu.be/SVY7eV2T_xA

YouTube video by Vince Guaraldi - Topic Motocross

Lastly…This is not directly for the playlist, but helps reinforce your point about Gen X childhoods: youtu.be/1JXda1uQJJc?...

I swear this is the only place I’ve ever seen/heard Sniff’n’The Tears.

MUSIC EXPRESS [1975] Another awesome week, another awesome album.

This was on heavy rotation circa senior year of high school (given to me by a former girlfriend): hercsktelalbums.blogspot.com/2013/11/musi...

In my personal narrative, Sniff'n'the Tears is a made-up band that exists only in K-Tel collections.

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Bill Hall Put It Together | Defector At the beginning of every baseball career, everyone is pretty much guessing. From a certain perspective, the work of that career amounts to generating enough information—filling out the back of a base...

As part of Defector's Bills Week, I am finally breaking my legendary silence on Bill Hall, a baseball player I always thought was pretty cool. defector.com/bill-hall-pu...

To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show

I…also used to live near there.

Editors I worked with in one job used to get itchy when our homepage lead story box was “one pixel long in IE.”

I mean 🤷‍♂️ …but also…we used to be a country, a proper country.

I’d also like to root for a fellow Gen X Midwesterner…but now I can’t…because of woke…

I’ll give him his flowers for championing the idea of a more visual web browser, which was a leap forward from Gopher and Telnet.

I should add: I was born in the 70s, am also a white guy from Wis and graduated from a Big Ten U. So I guess I’m one of his “people.” My experience does not match his experience.

Seems like his crowning tech achievement was Netscape, which wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for a giant government project (ARPANET).

Isn't Wikipedia...already a summary?

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.

This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

Matt Pearce was in Ferguson. Listen to your elders. (We’re the same age.)

Shampoo for my real friends. Real poo for my sham friends.

The Brewers' offense isn't the only reason they're playing red-hot baseball right now The Brewers were built around pitching and defense. The latter of those is now playing like it was expected to.

A little inside the beat thing: Infield coach Matt Erickson always gives some of the most insightful answers of anyone on the Brewers. Here he is on the improved defense of Caleb Durbin and why the metrics don’t love Joey Ortiz/what the Brewers are doing about it:

www.jsonline.com/story/sports...