Good morning. I wrote a guest essay for the New York Times about the rise of "anxiety cinema," from Uncut Gems to Shiva Baby to If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. I argue that the more daily life feels like a panic attack, the more the great movies of our time are reflecting that feeling back at us:
Jae hak Lee, back cover art from The Demon Warrior #1, 1987
Weird Al on tour in 1984 opening for Night Ranger
Ten Mexican songs I loved from 2025 that you might like too, but no guarantees (and very few actual hits among them, sorry Mexico, my attention can be very random).
www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...
Was rewatching Spring Breakers and now wondering if this shot was the basis of Geese's Getting Killed
There’s nothing more pleasant than being 100% done with a piece except that you still have a last-minute chance to swap a few of the adjectives for superior adjectives
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Oh it’s a banger!
The peak of civilization
I fucking hate my job, part deux
"Mothership Connection: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic" dropped last September.
An oral history that expands the story behind America's greatest funk band.
For POW, @jackriedy.com spoke to author Seth Neblett, the son of P-Funk vocalist Mallia Franklin.
www.passionweiss.com/2026/03/05/s...
The least-streamed tracks on all Madonna's studio LPs
I Know It
Shoo-Be-Doo
Love Makes The World Go Round
Can't Stop
Act Of Contrition
Now I'm Following You (Pt 2)
Did You Do It?
Don't Stop
Latin Chant
Mer Girl
Runaway Lover
Easy Ride
Push
Voices
Falling Free
Body Shop
Killers Who Are Partying
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
I know everyone posts "ANIME JA NAI" ("IT'S NOT ANIME") from Gundam ZZ, but "SILENT VOICE" is just as good if not better:
Mamoru Oshii’s landmark 1985 anime film, Angel’s Egg, is streaming on HBO. www.hbomax.com/movies/angel...
I wrote a bit about my favorite album of 2026 so far
Topics covered: Milwaukee lowend, Tommy from Big Frank videos, Lil Pump, Willy Staley tweets, Modest Mouse B-side titles, etc.
floweragain.substack.com/p/explaining...
Okay, this story has a CRAZY supporting cast list. Gloria Steinem! Radar magazine! It’s also absolutely enraging (especially as someone who was raised on the News) so fair warning.
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Would've have probably sold both kidneys to have seen Miles and Prince at Paisley Park on New Year's 1987
Characters from The Sims, BloodRayne, Mortal Kombat, SSX, Sonic Heroes, SpongeBob, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Unreal Tournament, Splinter Cell, Tony Hawk's Underground, more as featured in non-partisan voting PSA "Stand and Choose" by VG Unity (2004)
Second and third ain't bad (I wasn't sure what I wanted anyway)
Mortal Kombat 2 (film) - Official Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqT...
Eddie Trunk, Bob Lefsetz, Rick Beato…we must move past the need for these freaky little rockist men
"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner
On this day in 1940, Action Comics #23 hit newsstands, featuring not only the first mention of the Daily Planet, but also Superman's first encounter with who would become his long-time archenemy, Lex Luthor.
One of the greatest, in so many ways
The Hall of Fame wanted its new website to be a “rock & roll rabbit hole” www.adobomagazine.com/brand-busine...
I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
