Endless Dan Moore

Mfw we were in the car this morning and Lindsay asked me who that was singing on "Disney Girls"

Fitzgerald is perfectly suited for high school! You certainly get something different out of Gatsby as you get older, but 17-year-olds generally know what it's like to valorize grand romantic gestures that you come to realize are futile

Somebody got pissed off and wrote this paragraph into Jimmy Clausen's Wikipedia page 19 years ago, when he was a future superstar, and it's still on there now that nobody cares about him. Fossilized hate

I know it's tough out there for newspapers—and I also know which newspaper this is—but that's enough man

You don't even have to change this post

That one's self-indulgent but this one I'm providing as a valuable public service: The nine best Georgette Heyer novels in order. If you have watched the 1995 Pride & Prejudice more than twice you are the audience for this list and it could save your life

"Books" is too big a category to really put things into so I stuck to literary fiction and went in rough biographical order, so you can watch my transformation from teenaged would-be novelist to middle-aged Victorian

You just don't like to see it from a car that was briefly the Toyota Cavalier. Such high hopes

Not saying this to suggest things have never been bad before now, etc, but the recent R.E.M. discourse had me pull up "Bad Day" and I love the verse that's basically "beneath this staid decorum there's some hinky stuff going on." I miss you staid decorum youtube.com/watch?v=Hyk-Vdd_…

I don't know how old the original poster is here but basically every baby boomer I have ever met loves telling you this about car dealerships... this is like worrying about The Kids because nowadays printers are cheap but ink cartridges are expensive

Was very surprised several years ago when I bought this 1970s study of John Updike and realized it had been published by Eerdmans

The song itself is a "pop-punk band with terrible ideas about women" parody but the video thumbnail made me think I'd missed some terrible news about the New Radicals

Update: The Savuka revival is happening (in my house) youtube.com/watch?v=Q1--L5bu…

Wedding Gift Charles McFarlane a fashion historian shopped at a fanciful drug store near Bard Paid for a damsel whose Doctorow royalties weren’t accepted; they only took card

R.E.M. discourse contribution: Bands need to do a way better job of managing their streaming catalogs. I need the actual release years on the record, I need one of each record, I need the singles and the records separated. What is this

I kind of bought this in that they were writing/operating in a very, like, high-context "gen x public radio lib" environment vs some of their peers who keep getting revivals. But then I checked their Spotify streams and they have one of the all-time Count the Rings arguments

Incredibly tough break for John Ruskin

Begging one of my friends who's still in journalism to interview the three bravest men in America

"Adventuring for Beginners" is so good. As a public service I went to Steam and confirmed that the game was still on sale before I posted this, so I've now seen the "Steam Party-Based RPG Fest" banner youtube.com/watch?v=2R9U_TOP…