Richard Melo

Food for thought: Maybe the Epstein files are the real distraction from everything else that’s going on

It’s the handsome hair that got them

The difference between Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson is just a few words here and there. Their fundamental beliefs and actions are pretty much the same

The Dodgers are more like a big pile of cash money than a baseball team

I thought the Steelers had a chance tonight until I saw those uniforms

It’s not impossible. Doesn’t word of mouth count for anything?

YouTube video by TheAlmightPat Ronald Regan Impersonator from Alpha House

Whole gag in Garry Trudeau's short-lived sitcom "Alpha House" of a Reagan impersonator performing at a GOP Senate retreat. They're all lathered up for red meat, and the impersonator only delivers quotes saying nice things about immigration, etc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo4l...

McConnell is supposed to be the “quarterback whisperer,” but the Vikings are mediocre because of quarterback play. He’s the most overhyped NFL coach since Chip Kelly.

All that calling someone a nepo baby does is help level the field for kids without famous parents

The Jets ran the worst two-minute drill I've ever seen

Buck up, MAGA. At least the Nobel didn't go to Bad Bunny.

I’d rather win a Super Bowl here and there than never get close to playing in one but be known for grit

Does RFK have an alibi for the Chicago Tylenol murders in the 1980s?

If you fear retaliation from someone not given a peace prize, the retaliator didn’t deserve the peace prize in the first place

Do you know what else agitates and irritates crowds? Troops!

She looks like a member of KISS

The Long Goodbye is better than I remember. Amazing photography of scene with Nina Van Pallandt & Sterling Hayden with camera outside the windows of the beach house and reflections of the waves. Impressionistic, oh yes.

The @criterion.bsky.social channel selections available right now are amazing. Rewatching another Robert Altman movie every night.

#filmsky

A 40-year-old Tony Perkins could totally have played Pete Buttigieg in the biopic.

King Charles is a cancer. It’s like melanoma photographed alongside leukemia

Watching All the President’s Men to see Robert Redford and find myself actually mourning the @washingtonpost.com

“People always ask, ‘Who’s your ideal reader?’ Mine is somebody who reads a few pages and then falls asleep and has a fantastic dream.”

From our Art of the Essay interview with Eliot Weinberger in our new Fall issue. buff.ly/PIJNDC7

The Washington Post is the darkness that wants us to watch democracy die

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

Twin Peaks Main Theme
Requiem: 8:20 Latham - The 5th Dimension

It's uncanny how when you listen to this amazing 5th Dimension song from 1967, it starts off as its own song and then gets very Twin Peaksy

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

(These are famous examples but the song in all its incarnations is definitely amazing)

The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies

Creep - Radiohead

Get Free - Lana Del Rey

Calling for thoughts and prayers? A better solution to political violence is limiting access to guns.

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - The Rubinoos

(I Thought) You Wanted to Know - The dB’s

Gardening at Night - R.E.M.

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

Killing Joke - Eighties
Life Goes On - The Damned
Come as You Are - Nirvana

YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe" on The Ed Sullivan Show

#SongsAboutBeingBrokeAndRelationships
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

Just post one song of your choice by day, about being poor and maybe in love or too poor to be in love.
Day 11- Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe

Truly thrilled to see the movie!