We have confirmation of other alien spacecrafts being destroyed over Cairo, Sydney, and other major metro areas across Europe and Asia. What would the world have done without the technological excellence of the good ol' Red, White, and Blue?? #Merica

Hope these two get to have a reunion and share steak sandos again up there (or like wherever they are). Anthony Bourdain and Steve Albini at Chicago Ricobene's for Parts Unknown S07E02.

This Steve Albini anecdote (from Pitchfork's review of Ben Folds' THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF REINHOLD MESSNER) has remained lodged in my head ever since I read it 20-some years ago.

I am a professor, musicologist etc. - the only time most of my students will ever use B# is during this week’s lecture on bars that fall flat when the time it takes to explain a pun grasping at idiosyncratic chromatics takes longer than Kendrick to write another whole diss track