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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 11h

Every time I watch the “Steal My Sunshine” video (often) I always get a kick out of the Vice stickers on the mopeds.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 18h

Can't wait to see how the people with flying cars will treat cyclists

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 20h

Me being broken on a wheel: FINE! I’LL ADMIT IT. I’m walking around on an overcast day listening to Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall and thoroughly enjoying it! He might actually be a visionary!

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Bono at home listening to the Rosalia/Fontaines D.C. track just snapping a bunch of pens in half.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Lorne Michaels giving final edits for Shane Gillis’s monologue

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The reviews for the new Fontaines DC album are rolling in.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Top to bottom this is the most unappealing thing I've seen in a while

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Philadelphia Eagles fans, welcome to experiencing heartbreak at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Felt weird and depressed all day and realized it was because I was listening to Radiohead all morning. Listened to “Rockin in the Free World” while I rode my bike and it erased any psychic damage Thom Yorke could ever do.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pitching my Adaptation-Meets-Nirvanna-The-Band-The-Show-Meets-Curb series idea about a semi-fictionalized version of myself trying to get my Power Rangers reboot off the ground in an age where getting ideas greenlit ain't what it used to be. Wish me luck.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NOW is the time to listen to AFI. It's so obnoxious how the second the 4th of July is over all of the commercials and stores start playing "Fall Children," etc. Can we just enjoy late summer before listening to "Black Sails"?

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The worst thing about AI is that it continually wants me to say "I mean, seriously" in Gchat.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The best part of The Traitors is Alan Cumming pretending to be a twisted, sadistic aristocrat in a castle who is also actor Alan Cumming.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Pain don’t hurt,” I whisper to myself as she plucks my eyebrows.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lookin for scary reads this October. Gimme some recs. I've obviously read some Stephen King but that's about it for "horror." I can handle scary books much better than movies/TV so let 'er rip.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

John Kruk: National League Wild Card

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Fontaines DC single not beating the “socially acceptable Twenty One Pilots” allegations I fear

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These are still up on digital if anyone wants to read a collection of essays on the 2002 Flip Skateboards video “Sorry.” and its place/impact on culture and society - for a mere $2. brendanmenapace.bigcartel.com/product/Sorr... I'm also working on the follow-up, if anyone's interested in that.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Playing bass in Interpol in a Nike dri fit polo and Lululemon chinos.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I got hired to play in Interpol I’d ask if we ever get casual Fridays

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some ball players retire and become coaches. Others become pundits. Some open car dealerships. Garrett Stubbs’ post playing career will be being paid to attend weddings and get the dance floor going. Marsh coming too costs extra.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Garrett Stubbs is a role player. His role is party animal

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah man this is the problem. This chosen sports fan lifestyle is exhausting and obnoxious and gets you no closer to achieving nirvana. Don’t be the “I’m just kind of the asshole of the friend group.”

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I believe in the power of friendship (Phillies) to defeat the forces of evil (Braves)

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Any Phillies fan saying they should lose to be “put out of their misery” should not be allowed to watch. The point is to get as many games as possible and to cheer for them in all of them. Death to this Righteous Loser behavior endemic to Philadelphia especially.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This Phillies team will be remembered for being entertaining if nothing else. Massively slumping and taking it to game 162 is good TV, you have to admit.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Queens of the Stone Age ask “Where The Goth Girls At?” on their latest single from the upcoming LP “Perfecth”

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Listening to Interpol the way it was intended (wearing a suit)

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICYMI I went to the Ed Sheeran show where he made even more statements. I wrote about the experience, but mostly the idea that Ed Sheeran as a man and musical product are not built to withstand this sort of thing (thinking critically). I had fun with this www.snakesandsparklers.com/p/they-sent-...

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They Sent Me to the Ed Sheeran Concert To See If Anything Happened

And the crowd went mild

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I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES @imgarysuarez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every few years I just need to re-listen to "Stairway To Heaven" and remember what it was like to be a pre-teen boy falling in love with rock n roll

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wrote about going to the Ed Sheeran concert and hearing his statements, and thought about how Ed Sheeran as a man and consumable product just aren't meant to withstand any sort of controversy or even critical thought at all. www.snakesandsparklers.com/p/they-sent-...

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They Sent Me to the Ed Sheeran Concert To See If Anything Happened

And the crowd went mild

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For @billboard.com: I went to the Ed Sheeran show in Philly - his first after kicking Macklemore off the tour and losing his openers/backing band. Ed addressed the elephant (kinda sorta), but the crowd didn’t seem too stressed about any of that anyway… www.billboard.com/music/music-...

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Ed Sheeran Addresses Controversy at First Show Since Openers, Backing Band Dropped Off Tour, Calls It ‘The Best Show of My Life’

Ed Sheeran addressed the controversy at his Philadelphia show about his openers and backing band leaving the tour following Macklemore's removal.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

billboard.com

Ed Sheeran Addresses Controversy at First Show Since Openers, Backing Band Dropped Off Tour, Calls It ‘The Best Show of My Life’

Ed Sheeran addressed the controversy at his Philadelphia show about his openers and backing band leaving the tour following Macklemore's removal.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Same deal: he used to do an open mic at a Doc Holiday’s off the highway that my friends did, so I went to see them. Shane was pretty good but not as good as the guy who read the newspaper on stage or a guy whose self-given stage nickname I can’t even repeat in polite company.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I saw Shane Gillis at Helium in 2016 for Philly’s Phunniest, and he was pretty good, but in my opinion he was nowhere near the guy who tried and failed to do only crowd work with a puppet. I think about that set way more than anything Shane Gillis has ever done.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On this, the day of the first Millwall-West Ham match in 14 years, it behooves me to say that “Green Street Hooligans” sucks

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hope music journalism still exists next year so I can write the 30-year for "Nimrod" somewhere

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Your openers have abandoned you, G.I.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bohemians FC x Macklemore kit is gonna be something

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore, start learning Irish buddy.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More statues for animals. Most animals need statues more than most humans, really. There's a statue of a bulldog in my neighborhood in the center of benches in a park, so everyone faces the dog, and I was heartbroken to learn that it's not even commemorating a real dog. Still fun though.

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Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of those things I love to quote in public not realizing some people might not have seen it, let alone memorized it.

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