Prioritizing an affluent but aging collector niche over growing the next generation of musicians is the most pennywise, pound foolish thing Guitar Center could do...so of course that's gonna be their entire strategy going forward.

It's easy to act superior, but this moment was a: the culmination of a multi-film arc that dominated 2010s popular culture, and b: one of the last big theater experiences before Covid shut things down for months and months. Of course people are going to remember it fondly.

Sylmar.

The idea that popular music would be unlike every other art form in not having brief flowerings in between long periods of stagnation and decay is pretty strange if you think about it.

'These guys are actually feds because, uh, they're not fat and slovenly!' is such an unbelievable self-own.

A Purge movie, but it's about guys whose whole business is dumping toxic waste barrels into rivers on the one day it's legal.

Iconic duo Stetson and Lili at RescuesRock today.

If anyone's interested, my brother Will Stenberg and I did a fun, spoiler-free interview with the good people at the Wolf Connection about the challenges and joys of adapting Rick McIntyre's Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone books for the screen. instagram.com/p/C6PJBkhvVZv/…