Despite it being RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME, I've been singing at the top of my lungs for years that "I'll explain everything to the geese." I mean, it follows, "Swans are a-swimmin'" so I kind of stand by it. Also, this National live album slaps.

My personal picks for the year: Best Album: MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Best New Band: Friko Best Movie: Hundreds of Beavers Best TV Show: Shōgun Best Book: The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger Best Mobile Game: Balatro Best Birds: GA's first recorded American Flamingos

This is brilliant. Kill your lawn! pastemagazine.com/movies/gardeni…

Thanks Mara Davis for more great podcast recommendations! pastemagazine.com/media/podcasts…

I wrote about one of the great oft-forgotten bands to come out of Athens, Five Eight pastemagazine.com/music/five-eig…

Enjoying the other site so much more than this one. joshjackson.bsky.social if you care.

MJ Lenderman covering This Is Lorelei’s “Dancing in the Club” is the live music moment I didn’t know I needed.

Subscribe to Jezebel, and I promise if the internet gets banned or it becomes illegal for women to laugh online, we'll buy some fucking horses and ride from state to state to scream the news Paul Revere style and throw abortion pills at your house. jezebel.com/unprecedented-…

Headed back to Texas! This will be my 17th-ish SXSW.

Great new song from Paste's own Juan Soria!

Everybody should be watching this show. Funny, thrilling, character-driven, and depressingly timely. pastemagazine.com/tv/common-side…

I don't follow Elon Musk on this platform. But 5 of my last 10 Notifications are his tweets. Zero of them are interesting. I miss Twitter.

as of today this joke no longer works

Watched a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers build their nest in a tree hollow at Legacy Park.

Listen to the Paste YouTube radio Best of Indie radio streaming right now: youtube.com/live/Sx7BKRAeF…

Sufjan Stevens opens up about his two (IMO) masterpieces, Illinois and Carry & Lowell, in this cover story from matt - pastemagazine.com/music/sufjan-s…

Alan Tudyk Continues His Out-of-This-World Run in Resident Alien Season 4 pastemagazine.com/?p=404742

Sly Stone, funk legend, Family Stone founder, and musical prodigy, has passed away from COPD complications at the age of 82. pastemagazine.com/?p=404754