Mike Duquette

Just saw a person that—through makeup gone wrong or nature gone wronger—had the complexion of Boo Berry

Right?? I think my family and I went to see the guy twice and it was very silly and very fun

I am doing the "raise the roof" gesture in your honor

Poster for BLACKBIRD (2018)

Also I bet you're wondering: what's that guy been up to lately? Has he perhaps written, directed and starred in a movie about a rugged ex-spy in an exotic locale? Is Eric Roberts in this theoretical movie?

lmao FUCKING JINX

Also I would do almost anything to watch the movie Flatley wrote, directed and starred in about a retired spy opening a nightclub in the Caribbean and of COURSE Eric Roberts is in it

lmfao I haven't gotten that far yet!! (they like Ms. Rachel more at the moment.) I'm going to become The Joker when I see this

the vision of one man writing "IRISH" on a whiteboard 200 times before doing a pre-Web 2.0 version of that story where Chad Kroeger searched "hot girls dancing" on YouTube in front of the members of 5 Seconds of Summer

Middle America was watching that hardy man tappity-tappity like their lives depended on it

Tired: the incomprehensibility of the attempted early '90s swing revival
Wired: the incomprehensibility of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance

I interviewed Danny Kortchmar years ago, and he said Billy had apparently considered Nile Rodgers to produce before he got involved. Can you *imagine*

Everyone should be able to beat the brakes off this guy. dumb old fuck

Markwayne? Isn't that the band that did "Dig"?

I will never take a man named “Markwayne” seriously

“Ryan Grim” is also the sentence I say witnessing this haircut

Fascinating!!!

and correct me if I’m wrong @futurerocklegends.com but is it no longer the case that the fan vote counts as one extra ballot? Feels kinda like the steering wheel on Maggie Simpson’s car seat

I actually love that whole album! I am a sucker for the productions of William Wittman and/or Rick Chertoff

This corroborates what I’ve been seeing in the wild (people in INXS fan groups saying their ranking in the fan vote is “unacceptable”)

I once saw, in a fast food restaurant in midtown Manhattan, three tables—one of college girls, one of young twenty/thirtysomething professionals, one of a middle-aged guy—all stop what they were doing and even sing along when “Your Love” came on the radio

Colin Jost, Seth Meyers and Lorne Michaels underneath the bleachers at NBC Studio 8H in a shot from Morgan Neville’s forthcoming documentary LORNE

New Lorne Michaels documentary trailer has a shot of a young Colin Jost looking like one of the first 70 guys to place a video on MTV

“phrenology guys be like”

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good deep dive on the terrible state of hip-hop media archives and what that means for culture writing today

The Ballad of Dennis "Danger" Madalone Reflecting on a too-soon post-9/11 power ballad in our current, even dumber American conflict.

Just as we are as I’m an adult, we were in a stupid sort of war when I entered high school, One piece of cultural detritus from that era never left my brain—something stupid I had to write a bit. (with an unexpected @christianfinnegan.bsky.social cameo!)

Have you heard of Coca-Cola? Yes / No / Not Sure

ahh fuck ahh shit can someone help me here I can't skip this ad yet

Seen a few folks say “no Prince?” too, when of course the catalogue was not consistently streaming until he died

Have you heard of Coca-Cola? Yes / No / Not Sure

ahh fuck ahh shit can someone help me here I can't skip this ad yet

One time I was in an Uber and the driver’s GPS instructions spoke exactly within an EDM beat drop and I almost died laughing

Grandpa Moss was a Merchant Marine-turned-truck driver who never missed a summer vacation for his kids; Grandpa Duquette was a radio operator on a minesweeper in the Pacific theater and postal inspector; retired the year my parents married and traveled the world with my grandmother. Different times

Stapp!

(emerging from the shadows) “these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand. I’m of course referring to 311, whom I am ready to fight”