Reposted by Josh GondelmanLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm going to read about R.E.M. tomorrow and one of these great musicians is going to play a cover of the song I'm reading about. Pretty cool! www.eventbrite.com/e/words-and-...eventbrite.comWords and GuitarAn all acoustic variety show featuring readings about our favorite tunes, and covers of them from our favorite musicians. 0466
Reposted by Josh GondelmanJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23hCome see this show tonight where I will be reading my new piece of music criticism called: You Hipster Dipshits Will Acknowledge the Tender Poetry of They Might Be Giants, Goddammit. 1330018
Reposted by Josh GondelmanAmy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 19hextremely exciting news: @weareravenous.com commissioned its first freelance piece, and it's this banger essay from @nikostratis.com!!! what a day. www.weareravenous.com/wendys-emo-a...weareravenous.comWendy’s Is Trading on Millennial Nostalgia With EmoWendy's released an EP, 'Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot,' with a slew of emo heavy-hitters. It hopes to cash in on your memories of eating a Frosty after you were dumped. 0318
Reposted by Josh GondelmanDaniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 19hWe also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life. 6571106
Reposted by Josh GondelmanSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22hLate here but: If Democrats actually want to "stop abortion bans," they have a moral and strategic duty to ensure that the government has no place in deciding who can get an abortion. No more viability limits. Abortion as early as possible and as late as necessary, because anything less is immoral 230366
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 22hI'll probably include it in my newsletter next week at least! 020
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23hCome see this show tonight where I will be reading my new piece of music criticism called: You Hipster Dipshits Will Acknowledge the Tender Poetry of They Might Be Giants, Goddammit. 1330018
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Legit LOL that we both jumped on this immediately. 170
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think they're from like...Lawrence hahaha. 1130
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm sorry...I'll try to do better, but I'M DOING THE BEST I EVER DID I'M DOING THE BEST THAT I CAN. 3900
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I can't say it because people will do too much discourse!!! cc: @alisonleiby.bsky.social 000
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I don't like what he said, and I double don't like that a major player in the national security apparatus looks like Business Godsmack. 33106776
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Anyway, we just finished Slow Horses Season 1, and like everyone said, it's great. 101630
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Every time I watch a tv show that takes place in London I get so nervous about them driving on that side of the road. 192523
Reposted by Josh GondelmanMichael Heath Pecorino @mhplives.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Thank you for the kind words! This is fan art based on an anecdote from PFT about the two of you on Aimee Mann’e bus. I hope you’ll tour Charlottesville, vA someday! 0241
Reposted by Josh GondelmanKate @eatskiteach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"That's the dream! To have enough money to live and enough bandwidth to create." Preach, @joshgondelman.bsky.social 2164
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We’ve got to bump up those can and bottle recycling payouts man they are not keeping up with inflation and nobody’s cashing those things in who doesn’t need it. 21324
Reposted by Josh GondelmanAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I wrote about the one-man disinformation vector that we need to worry about between now and November: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comElon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation riskThe world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns. 321181377
Reposted by Josh GondelmanKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions. 241974361
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Oh shoot I messed up because I'm not from Texas!!! 050
Reposted by Josh GondelmanSeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Houstonians: Go see Josh. He's fabulous. 🥸 0182
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Thank you it was really good and I can't wait to reprise it. 020
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Houston: Please come to my show on 10/22! I am leaving my dog at home so I will be wearing real clothes! Tickets: www.livenation.com/event/G5dIZ_... 1324
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Fingers crossed you feel up to making it out and that either way your tough time fades away soon. 110
Reposted by Josh GondelmanJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This week’s newsletter is a little bit about baseball and god and then more about living the dream and also about a couple of movies I’ve controversially enjoyed!!!thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com#205. The White Sox and YouHi everyone, Exactly one week ago, our household innovated a new tradition: Erotic Thriller And Pizza Mondays. Alison came over to (platonically!!!) watch Wild Things with me and Maris (and Maggie th... 5272
Reposted by Josh GondelmanSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/10/2026Can we get 10 people to fill the @autonomynews.co Tip Jar for a reported story so good that—and this is the nicest way I can put it—another writer gave our work the newsfluencer treatment? www.autonomynews.co/tip-jar/ 1375146
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026That's honestly the thing that MOST gets me interested in a movie! But I understand that's not everyone! 010
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Exactly my takeaway! It knew exactly what it was and did a great job of being that thing! 020
Reposted by Josh GondelmanVince Keenan @vpkeenan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Josh's newsletter is always a Monday highlight. 2122
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026That said I would have loved to have seen the whole movie follow the thread of the first 20 minutes to its conclusion! 000
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I completely see where you are coming from! I loved the toggling back and forth visually, but I don't think we needed the thing-within-the-thing in the way that, like, Camp Miasma did! I did love the big Jesse Plemons moment though! 100
