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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Way to impress your London audience, NFL. Negate the return of the opening kickoff for a touchdown with four penalties. JFC.

Jacksonville returning opening kickoff for a touchdown.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In honor of my 40th reunion at Stanford later this month, this is the story of the day in January 1986 I spent with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. My roommate on the college board brought them to campus on their Freaky Styley tour. He hired me and other friends to work security. Only 300 tickets sold.

Cover of RHCP's Freaky Styley, a collage of mostly guys wearing sunglasses.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What is she wearing on her wrist (on the sideline at USC vs. Oregon)?

Woman wearing a round smartwatch on one arm and a large rectangular smartwatch on the other arm.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, we have exactly one real journalist and one decent politician left in the entire country.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

♫ All I want to do when I wake up in the morning is steal your eyes. ♪

Charles Albright, known as the "Eyeball Killer," serial murderer who removed victims' eyes.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every douche that drives a huge pickup truck for vanity is getting exactly what they deserve today. Suck it, "alpha male."

Gas priced at $5.49 regular / $6.99 for diesel.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Chicken pox, chicken pox, chicken pox pie!"

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I heard that Marvel was doing the Multiverse after "Endgame," I assumed they would build a new hero roster in an alternate world and then end the phase by merging them in. They had a soft reset button for their increasingly unwieldy canon sitting right there and they just ignored it.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some majors are definitely more AI-proof than others. AI is not going to build your architectural model for you. Or defend your design choices when you tell it to "Design a town hall building in the style of famous 1990s Mexican architects."

Architecture students building models out of paperboard and wood.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I saw Michael Rosenbaum's name in the "Guardians of the Galaxy 3" credits so naturally I watched the whole movie thinking this was him.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

NFL Network superimposing the Invisalign logo on the field was really dismaying, but at least it gave us this.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm related to some of them. They're white, over 60, and still on Facebook. Reposting shit like this. Fox News is 98% of why.

Facebook post reposting racist Liz Wheeler content.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Paramount is really trying to kill Star Trek. I had no idea that Strange New Worlds had returned with Season 4. It is as if they want bad ratings. Meanwhile, the show keeps trying bold wacky stuff and Paul Wesley's James T. Kirk continues to be an uncanny take on one of TV's greatest characters.

The cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm the 300-foot drop at Yosemite's Vernal Falls that happens if you don't get off the natural waterslide in time.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In Nolan's "The Odyssey," Matt Damon's Odysseus makes one macho blunder after another and keeps getting people killed. Oh, toxic masculinity is bad, the hero is a actually a dufus, I get it. But then at the end he suddenly goes beast mode and singlehandedly saves the day? What did we learn here?

Matt Damon as Odysseus shooting bow and arrow.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Within a few years, any mechanically-inclined society living in AppleTV+'s Silo would engineer a stair-climbing machine. No way they just unanimously accept a 140-story climb. We see them jerry-rig elevators; those would be permanent, too.

Man climbing down the spiral starway in "Silo."

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

More like "Tony Decouple," amirite?

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I’ve never seen “The Chi” so I’m not sure how it is pronounced, but logic dictates that it sounds like the first syllable of Chicago, right? The Shih?

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And do the sign language hand motions. I make up my own for "diarrhea" and that's the real fun part.

"Heartburn" hand motion from Pepto Bismol TV ad.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Stix Golf Clubs ad from tonight's PTI on ESPN. Do you think AI was responsible, or just old-fashioned human incompetence?

Stix golf clubs TV ad touting "PROVEN PREFORMANCE."

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

No one wants to hear it, but when you burn your thrusters in space, you do not keep moving at the same speed. You accelerate like a motherfucker. Every movie/TV in space is less realistic than Asteroids.

Bombers flying in formation from "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."

Impulse engines firing on the USS Enterprise.

1978 Battlestar Galactica's Vipers in turbo mode.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Remember when Journey stayed up all night snorting coke with the money for their "Separate Ways" music video and the next morning made the cheapest looking video in history?

Journey playing "invisible" instruments in the "Separate Ways" video.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My favorite bar in NYC, Fresh Salt. The Seaport District is my adopted NYC neighborhood.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I had long hair through most of the 90s.

Robert Wolsey in a news clipping playing guitar on stage.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My brother restored this 1969 Ford Mustang and will be showing it this weekend at the Syracuse Nationals. No idea how he did this.

Fully restored lime green 1969 Ford Mustang convertible.

Dilapidated rusty body of a 1969 Ford Mustang convertible.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

TVs didn't have a startup sequence, followed by input selection. You pressed the power button and in half a second you were watching your show.

Vizio TV showing prompt to connect to network.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Right off the bat, "Star Trek: Picard" S1 was stupid as fuck.

Raffi's trailer at Vasquez Rocks National Park in "Star Trek: Picard."

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My band is down to three guys so I switched to acoustic guitar thinking we could go for a quieter sound, but this is what happens instead.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Forgot this one. Yul Brynner in "The Ten Commandments."

Yul Brynner in "The Ten Commandments," shirtless and menacing in an egyptian headdress.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Seeing Egypt's World Cup fans in pharaoh gear, I realize I've always loved this look.

Egypt World Cup fan in pharaoh-themed outfit.

Egypt-themed helmet from 70s "Battlestar Galactica."

Pharoah design of robot from Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Revel scooters that you used to be able to rent in NYC were speed-limited to 30 mph and you could only drive them in the street.

Couple riding a Revel electric scooter in NYC.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

NBC News: Thanks to Trump's security demands, there will be no watch party outside MSG for Knicks fans in their biggest game in decades. Just days after Mamdani expressed his support for the gatherings.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What did Squirrel Batman say to Squirrel Joker? "You want to get nuts? Let's get nuts!"

Gary Larson cartoon of squirrels chanting "Nuts! Nuts! Get 'em!"

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Trying to rewatch "Ahsoka." How many episodes until Roxanne Dawson uncrosses her arms?

Roxanne Dawson in "Ahsoka" with arms crossed.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In "Chapter 14: The Tragedy," 8 stormtroopers come off two transports, and Mando proceeds to kill 40 of them.

Four stormtroopers exiting an Imperial transport.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Joker has pants that'll light up a room Heard my guy's got a new line of them soon Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Joker pants #bobdylan

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"Andor" gets a pass from fans for its painfully dull first three episodes where the title character is a selfish violent prick who constantly lets everyone down. I had friends just give up there. Yes, it quickly gels into something special, but it should be talked about with that caveat.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We were blown away this weekend, literally. (Thanks, sashiesdispensary.com.)

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Caitlyn Jenner was once America's greatest athlete. I remember reading this parody of "The Incredible Hulk" in MAD Magazine in 1979. The irony since then has been twisted into a pretzel.

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Robert Wolsey @vinylbuzz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

No TV show in history used the word 'lagoon' more than "Gilligan's Island."

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