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Michael Stipe Took The Stage Last night at Brooklyn Steel, a concert venue in the Williamsburg section of the NYC borough, Michael Stipe - former lead singer of R.E.M. (one of my favorite bands) - took the stage with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to sing "These Days" and "The Great Beyond". This was the first time he has sung these songs on stage in about 18 years.

Michael Stipe Took The Stage

Last night at Brooklyn Steel, a concert venue in the Williamsburg section of the NYC borough, Michael Stipe - former lead singer of R.E.M. (one of my favorite bands) - took the stage with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to sing "These Days" and "The Great Beyond".…

08.03.2026 22:54 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

@michaelstipe.bsky.social Thank you for last night. I was there. It was wonderful to see you take the stage.

08.03.2026 21:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Heartbeat of St. Mark’s Place Fun story in today's NY Times about Charles FitzGerald, the so called landlord of Greenwich Village's St. Marks's Place, the street that has and will hopefully continue to be the beating heart of the East Village's counterculture vibe: Mr. FitzGerald, strong-jawed and sarcastic, said by his own account that he was not especially good at running the finances, which often created stress for his family.

The Heartbeat of St. Mark’s Place

Fun story in today's NY Times about Charles FitzGerald, the so called landlord of Greenwich Village's St. Marks's Place, the street that has and will hopefully continue to be the beating heart of the East Village's counterculture vibe: Mr. FitzGerald, strong-jawed…

27.02.2026 19:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@michaelstipe.bsky.social Will you be in NYC for the March 7 Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy concert at Brooklyn Steel? Potential cameo appearance? :)

26.02.2026 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I Hate Trump’s Awful Policies, but I Love That He’s a Huge Asshole Look, everyone makes compromises when they vote for a politician. Democrats ignored Bill Clinton’s philandering because they liked the job he was d...

McSweeney's FTW, as usual. "I’m not surprised he makes fun of his own kids, when he’s able to remember their names. What a shriveled ball sack of a man. That’s what we’ve been missing on the world stage!" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-h...

26.02.2026 01:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sega Founder Has Died Sadly, David Rosen, the founder of SEGA has died. However, check out his obit in the NY Times and the lead header image/gif which is a gif of Bare Knuckle II. It is fantastic! The obit is also very much worth the read - Mr. Rosen was so far ahead of his time! From the obit: During the 1990s, Genesis was seemingly everywhere: in commercials during the MTV Video Music Awards; on an episode of “Roseanne,” when the title character’s son, D.J., huffs off to play Genesis at a friend’s house when his parents won’t buy him a Nintendo; and in the 1996 movie “Swingers,” when Trent, played by Vince Vaughn, makes Wayne Gretzky’s head bleed in a popular hockey game.

Sega Founder Has Died

Sadly, David Rosen, the founder of SEGA has died. However, check out his obit in the NY Times and the lead header image/gif which is a gif of Bare Knuckle II. It is fantastic! The obit is also very much worth the read - Mr. Rosen was so far ahead of his time! From the obit:…

21.01.2026 00:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Penn Station Albatross The old Pennsylvania Station in NYC has always been a fascinating topic for me. I wish I could have seen the grandeur of that building when it was vibrant and active. Imagine the beauty of today's Grand Central Station in Midtown, only on steroids. From what I have been told, the scale of the old Pennsylvania Station was breathtaking. If Pennsylvania Station had survived through to today, I could only imagine what it would look like if the same care and attention to restoration was given to it as was given to Grand Central.

The Penn Station Albatross

The old Pennsylvania Station in NYC has always been a fascinating topic for me. I wish I could have seen the grandeur of that building when it was vibrant and active. Imagine the beauty of today's Grand Central Station in Midtown, only on steroids. From what I have been…

10.12.2025 23:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

News Photos of the Year Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty via The Atlantic The above photo - haunting, devastating and yet beautiful all at the same time - from the Eaton Fires in Southern California in January, 2025. This and others can be found in the Top 25 News Photos from The Atlantic. Kinda surprised the collection didn't include a screenshot of "Signalgate" chat that Jeff Goldberg was included in.

News Photos of the Year

Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty via The Atlantic The above photo - haunting, devastating and yet beautiful all at the same time - from the Eaton Fires in Southern California in January, 2025. This and others can be found in the Top 25 News Photos from The Atlantic. Kinda…

10.12.2025 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Incredible Dakota Apartment Hits The Market An absolutely insane apartment hit the market on October 15th in NYC's legendary 'The Dakota' on Central Park West on the Upper West Side. It is the first time this unit has been on the market in 40+ years. The apartment is a 3 bedroom, 4.5 bathroom unit with 13.5 foot ceilings with most of the unit overlooking Central Park. …

Incredible Dakota Apartment Hits The Market

An absolutely insane apartment hit the market on October 15th in NYC's legendary 'The Dakota' on Central Park West on the Upper West Side. It is the first time this unit has been on the market in 40+ years. The apartment is a 3 bedroom, 4.5 bathroom unit…

23.10.2025 00:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quick Update – Wallpapers Last weekend I finished updating all the Wallpapers for the English, Scottish and European leagues featured on the site, reflecting the club kit designs for the 25-26 season. My goal is always to try to get them done before the start of the season in England/Europe however I am finding that harder and harder to achieve with sheer volume of items to update coupled with the the fact that the kit designs are usually not announced until the late summer.

Quick Update – Wallpapers

Last weekend I finished updating all the Wallpapers for the English, Scottish and European leagues featured on the site, reflecting the club kit designs for the 25-26 season. My goal is always to try to get them done before the start of the season in England/Europe…

18.10.2025 03:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So are we to deduce that since the NYTimes published this that the operation isn’t covert any more? 😂

15.10.2025 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Movies That Defined Gen X A Break From MAGA Madness for a Moment

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11.10.2025 02:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is a tweet for everything. Everything he says is a projection on his own shortcomings and corruption

06.09.2025 13:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

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"Password cannot be same as last password" Okay, but why not? It's clearly very hard to guess. I couldn't crack it, and I'm the one who made it!

This is an excellent point:

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Many English Soccer Kit Wallpapers Updated I've updated the English Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two desktop wallpaper collections/tabs for 2025-26. Unbelievably, this is the 10th year that I have done this. It stated back then because I was not happy with the different wallpaper designs/options for the teams that I support. In addition, I really liked the unique designs that appeared on different team uniforms/kits and was surprised that I could not find computer wallpapers that reflected those designs.

Many English Soccer Kit Wallpapers Updated

I've updated the English Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two desktop wallpaper collections/tabs for 2025-26. Unbelievably, this is the 10th year that I have done this. It stated back then because I was not happy with the different…

31.08.2025 14:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Soccer (Football) - English & Scottish | Stephen Clark (sgclark.com) Desktop Wallpapers featuring English and Scottish teams (European leagues are found here and USA is here). With these, I did my best to mimic the home, away,

I've updated EFL League Two 'kit inspired' wallpapers for the 2025-26 season. You can find them here: www.sgclark.com/wallpapers/e... #wallpaper #EFL #leagueone #desktopwallpaper. I am in the process of updating EFL National League ones as well as European leagues.

31.08.2025 14:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Soccer (Football) - English & Scottish | Stephen Clark (sgclark.com) Desktop Wallpapers featuring English and Scottish teams (European leagues are found here and USA is here). With these, I did my best to mimic the home, away,

I've updated EFL League One 'kit inspired' wallpapers for the 2025-26 season. You can find them here: www.sgclark.com/wallpapers/e... #wallpaper #EFL #leagueone #desktopwallpaper

31.08.2025 14:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Soccer (Football) - English & Scottish | Stephen Clark (sgclark.com) Desktop Wallpapers featuring English and Scottish teams (European leagues are found here and USA is here). With these, I did my best to mimic the home, away,

I've updated the EFL Championship "kit inspired" wallpapers for the 2025-26 season. You can find them here: www.sgclark.com/wallpapers/e.... #wallpaper #EFL #championship #desktopwallpaper

31.08.2025 14:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Soccer (Football) - English & Scottish | Stephen Clark (sgclark.com) Desktop Wallpapers featuring English and Scottish teams (European leagues are found here and USA is here). With these, I did my best to mimic the home, away,

I've updated the EPL "kit inspired" wallpapers for the 2025-26 season. You can find them here: www.sgclark.com/wallpapers/e... #wallpaper #desktopwallpaper #devicewallpaper

31.08.2025 14:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

26.08.2025 02:57 👍 4185 🔁 968 💬 90 📌 164

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

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This is funny

20.08.2025 04:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All The Words on NYC Signage An absolutely spectacular project from The Pudding. They basically did a text/word/phrase scan of all the public Google Maps images of the five boroughs of NYC to find out what were the most used words and phrases in the city. And the results are incredible. The scale of the data is immense: over 8 million Google Street View images (from the past 18 years) and 138 million identified snippets of text.

All The Words on NYC Signage

An absolutely spectacular project from The Pudding. They basically did a text/word/phrase scan of all the public Google Maps images of the five boroughs of NYC to find out what were the most used words and phrases in the city. And the results are incredible. The scale…

30.07.2025 00:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Top Movies of the 21st Century Nice and relatively well edited/selected list of the Top 100 Movies of the 21st Century from the NY Times. As you can see from the above image, I am proud to report that as of today, I've seen 62 of these fine feature films. For what it is worth, there are several of the remaining 38 that are on my 'to watch' list which would have brought that total up a bit higher.

Top Movies of the 21st Century

Nice and relatively well edited/selected list of the Top 100 Movies of the 21st Century from the NY Times. As you can see from the above image, I am proud to report that as of today, I've seen 62 of these fine feature films. For what it is worth, there are several of…

11.07.2025 19:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

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May The Schwartz Be With You The ageless wonder Mel Brooks announced that they are making "Spaceballs 2" with a pretty funny reveal video. The original is a hilarious spoof of the Star Wars universe, featuring such characters as Yogurt, Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz and such classic cheesy humor lines like "May the Schwartz be with you.", "She gives great helmet.", and "Prepare ship for ludicrous speed!" to name a few.

May The Schwartz Be With You

The ageless wonder Mel Brooks announced that they are making "Spaceballs 2" with a pretty funny reveal video. The original is a hilarious spoof of the Star Wars universe, featuring such characters as Yogurt, Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz and such classic cheesy humor…

12.06.2025 17:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Top Goals in EPL This Season Some amazing goals from the past year in the EPL. Happy to see this collection being led off by an Anthony Gordon goal from my favorite team Newcastle United. Its been a great season for NUFC, winning the Carabao (League) Cup (Newcastle's first domestic trophy in 70 (!!) years) and qualifying (barely) for European Champions League (second time in three years!).

Top Goals in EPL This Season

Some amazing goals from the past year in the EPL. Happy to see this collection being led off by an Anthony Gordon goal from my favorite team Newcastle United. Its been a great season for NUFC, winning the Carabao (League) Cup (Newcastle's first domestic trophy in 70…

30.05.2025 00:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Forest - 2006 Remaster The Cure · Seventeen Seconds (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 1980

I love the opening to "A Forest" by @thecure.com

open.spotify.com/track/3O4TPM...

02.05.2025 19:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Turns 50 Fifty years on, the classic absurdist comedy film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" still holds up as one of the funniest movies of all time. A fun article from the BBC interviews Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam as they recall how they and the rest of the iconic comedy troupe created the comedy classic: An independent British comedy made on a shoestring by a television sketch troupe?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Turns 50

Fifty years on, the classic absurdist comedy film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" still holds up as one of the funniest movies of all time. A fun article from the BBC interviews Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam as they recall how they and the rest of the…

26.04.2025 01:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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