Al Shipley

the new episode of Total Ship Show with @zacshipley.bsky.social is out now. I talked about spending a day on the set of a movie that's out in theaters in a couple weeks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB9e... open.spotify.com/episode/4NbP...

hov on the phone breaking the news to bieber and miley

jay-z has named himself people's sexiest man alive, what a narcissist

someone said the best needledrop of 2026 was that one run the jewels song that's been in every third comedy for like ten years

my son just sang "sad death night to me" to the tune of happy birthday while eating someone else's birthday cake...his mind

lord knows he's done enough but i'm kinda sad elvis costello isn't writing anymore, really dug those last 3 records www.pastemagazine.com/article/elvi...

mariah carey had to release the 25th anniversary edition of glitter a few weeks after the actual anniversary, so that she wasn't celebrating 9/11

i got out of the shower and t. rex's "born to boogie" was on the radio. quite possibly the ideal song for dancing in your underwear.

typo of the day: "half-basked"

watching a terrible reality show where celebrities do mafia movie-themed challenges / i run into debi mazar

every fall is overbooked and stressful for me, but the fall that i finished my book was another level, nothing will ever seem as difficult after that

nicki going maga in ways even kanye never dreamed of is hilarious

freddie mercury if he'd lived long enough to experience vh1's celebreality era: is this surreal life, or is this just flavor of love

the cheesecake factory is the last pillar of america's once-great manufacturing sector. if you denigrate this great institution, you will lose elections all over the cheesecake belt.

step brothers is a classic comedy but i don't wanna see any more rap album covers done in the style of the movie poster, it's so fucking played out

typo of the day: "fast-pased"

sometimes my entire facebook feed is posts from, like, three to ten days ago? why? who wants this stale gruel?

feels like the whole music industry got the memo to "release" a "single" with on streaming services to try to get traction with a song that's already been out for a while on an album. don't even need a remix, just new cover art.

typo of the day: "chucken" instead of "chicken"

today's my only day off in an 8-day stretch, which is stressful in its own way because i'm like "okay i should do every single thing today that i'm not going to have time to do another day"

happy pythagorean theorem day to those who calculate

the endless feud between the members of Live is funny because how much can you really fight about such a nondescript and shitty band name

"Drake is 40" "no, 40 is Drake's producer" "Noah Shebib? he's 43!" "no, he's 40" "well Drake is 40 too" "neither of them is 42!"

nooo don't kill yourself you're a light 8 aha

there's no "billy" in the trailer so i'm just imagining that billy is the couch's name

typo of the day: "smmile" instead of "smile"

every time i hear about nba coach nick nurse i picture dr. nick from the simpsons

On October 25, 2021, Kanter wore a pair of shoes emblazoned with the words "Free China" and featuring Winnie the Pooh. #WikipediaSentences

i'm catching up on season 5 of abbott elementary lately and there were some great episodes, i think people were just arbitrarily griping about it

*avril voice* he was cam skattebo, she said see you latter, boo

"flash mob" would probably sound violent if you weren't familiar with the concept. in fact i am familiar with the concept and consider it an act of violence.

saw a waymo in person for the first time and reflexively made a disgusted noise much as i did the first time i saw a cybertruck

I wrote about "Found a Job" by Talking Heads for my Spin column Deep Cut Friday this week: www.spinmagazine.com/2026/10/deep...

2026 recording log, day 39: Had a rare morning practice/writing session with New Band and it was pretty fun and productive, got a lot of work done on Untitled 94B, Untitled 229B, and Untitled 305B/307B.

some of the hate netflix gets is deserved, but it's like the only streaming service where rewinding a show by one minute to catch a missed scene is not a stressful two-minute ordeal

the president's closing argument for voting for jon husted:

it's very funny that a billboard writer had to be like "it was very easy to infer who cardi b was referring to when she said 'white big bitch'" www.billboard.com/music/music-...

a lot of people used the cyclospora outbreak as an excuse to eat way less vegetables and just never went back

typo of the day: "togethrf"

i was a fan of jimmie allen's music before the allegations that got him dropped from his label. rolled my eyes pretty hard when i saw that the first semi-high profile thing he's done in three years is guest on the new kid rock album.

two guys at work talking about an ex-trumper they know: "i heard him say 'gulf of mexico' the other day" "he reverted!?"

very special episode of The Diplomat where "the president is going to do 'The Jackal'"

she didn't even have to read the contract before signing on variety.com/2026/tv/news...

"norm: the tale of norm macdonald" is a pretty clunky documentary title...norm would have approved

"babylon sisters" on the sound system at work before rehearsals at work, as usual soundmen love steely dan

typo of the day: "nasional" instead of "national"