Dee Phunk

Dee Phunk

@deephunk.bsky.social

NY expat, LA transplant, 🎨 for @slate.com (2013-present), playlist savant, occasional music streamer, sneaker enthusiast, hoop addict, wine sipper, culture connoisseur, washed husband, dad of two, optimist, Libra.

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You can tell everything about a character of a human being by whether or not they double back down the Jennifer Hudson Spirit Tunnel.

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Eric Bauza, the modern day voice of the Looney Tunes big three (Bugs, Daffy and Porky) and Peter Cullen, the OG voice of Optimus Prime passing within eight weeks of each other is too much to handle. 🕊️

They put him w/ a bunch of 5-year olds bc he was very advanced at soccer... and then called the police bc he was kicking the 5-year olds asses. Part of me is sad but the other is glad this origin story is being covered so widely for when he ends up becoming the face of pro soccer.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

I feel extremely bad for Jalen Williams. Don’t go looking for that footage. It was his leg. They had to cover it w/ a towel immediately after bc that’s how bad it looked. He had to leave on a stretcher. SGA was sobbing into his jersey.

If anyone was wondering, the last team to drop their first three games after winning a chip was the 2011-12 Dallas Mavericks. Knicks still on that beautiful summer hangover.

If for nothing else, you gotta watch the WNBA bc the players chirp at each other constantly and pop more sh*t at each other and the refs give them more space to do so.

Lemme find out all we needed was Fred VanVleet to finally come back from his injury for Houston and San Antonio to become the best TRUE rivalry in the league.

Wemby is 7'4". Amen Thompson is 6'7".

Daniel Thompson@dr-thompson.bsky.social

Early candidate for block of the year because AMEN THOMPSON JUST DID THAT !!! to seal a win over the Spurs on the road. Just erases Wemby's shot at tying the game !!! #NBASky #SkyHoops

Somehow, the missing rings isn’t even the most shocking. I said “WTF?” for at least three other separate items in this story. Dolan is a f*cking menace, man.

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social

If you're a connoisseur of on-brand James Dolan pettiness, grudge-settling, and ham-fisted dumbassery, have I got the article for you www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

I need that shot of the Knicks w/ their rings and James Dolan literally off to the side in the dark injected directly into my spine.

I’m currently in NYC serendipitously bc of a work trip. I’m grabbing dinner w/ friends in KTown at a restaurant w/ multiple TVs. Cheaper and better food than MSG too. “Somewhere in the W 30s” is all the vibes I need for tonight.

Tickets for tonight's season opener are going for somewhere between "one month in a rent-stabilized apartment in outer Brooklyn" and "a one-month sublet in Jennifer Lawrence's West Village apartment."

The documentary about this album, The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable, not-so-coincdentally dropped today. Since we're big on investigating secret alternate revenue streams, is Pablo getting a Netflix bag on the low? 🤔 Let's find THAT out. (Nah, but this is very good. Pablo is a beast.)

Pablo Torre@pablo.show

Good morning. We spent a night with the secret Wu-Tang album. And Method Man — the artist who’d never heard it, either. Until now 👀 youtu.be/rVR8GmAK-8A?...

The Brewers going to the World Series is equivalent to the Knicks going to the Finals, right? That’s the only way I can understand it.

Obama's Birth Certificate 2: Election Boogaloo

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

The investigation that prompted the search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home centers on claims that she or her late father may have lied on decades-old immigration paperwork, three sources said. Omar has repeatedly rejected such allegations.

"Kelly Clarkson drove to Brooklyn to buy Molly and was turned away" is such a great story out of context.

Pablo Torre@pablo.show

I'll be in the subscriber-only chat on our YT channel at 9p ET. Will do my best to answer questions, as they emerge, there. Hope you can stick around to the very end of this one 🐤👀 youtube.com/watch?si=zWaHCoyzOKhTHxmG&v=7f6xlHh1fok&feature=youtu.be

I was in a suburban Los Angeles Dave & Buster’s when the Dodgers fell into a 2-0 hole vs the Brewers in the NLCS. The vibes were low. The good news is that I got my kids to settle on who got to use the last game credits on our Power Card by playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. No complaints.

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Had a little extra time today and ppl seem to love it so I added another 25 songs to my Sea Soul playlist. Now over nine hours of jams. Stay wavy. 🌊 SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/playlist/3C9lW8wXGrhGluKlmmY899?si=1aaf4addfd494734 APPLE MUSIC: music.apple.com/us/playlist/sea-soul/pl.u-11zBJ73cZ2xem1

Had a little extra time today and ppl seem to love it so I added another 25 songs to my Sea Soul playlist. Now over nine hours of jams. Stay wavy. 🌊 SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/playlist/3C9lW8wXGrhGluKlmmY899?si=1aaf4addfd494734 APPLE MUSIC: music.apple.com/us/playlist/sea-soul/pl.u-11zBJ73cZ2xem1

Dee Phunk@deephunk.bsky.social

Low key day at the crib and a day off from work so I finally decided to add some more joints to my Sea Soul playlist for the first time since 2024. A darker shade of blue. The yang to yacht rock's yin, if you catch my drift. Sounds best if you're near any sort of water. Enjoy.

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Dee Phunk@deephunk.bsky.social

NBA preseason is that fun time of year where you’re reminded of the lunacy of the offseason. Like, raise your hand if you’re like me and completely forgot that DeMar DeRozan is a Nugget now. ✋🏾

NBA preseason is that fun time of year where you’re reminded of the lunacy of the offseason. Like, raise your hand if you’re like me and completely forgot that DeMar DeRozan is a Nugget now. ✋🏾

I thought the Dream sweeping the Liberty was a biggie. The Valkyries (their SECOND year in the W) sweeping the Aces? The defending champs? The day after A’ja got her 5th MVP? Listen, man.

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Them firing Tspoon really was just the absolute worst move that franchise ever made #wnba

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I just want to remind everyone that the Chicago Sky traded Angel Reese away only for her to win DPOY and take the Atlanta Dream to the WNBA Finals by SWEEPING the Liberty. That’s cold work, man.

I just want to remind everyone that the Chicago Sky traded Angel Reese away only for her to win DPOY and take the Atlanta Dream to the WNBA Finals by SWEEPING the Liberty. That’s cold work, man.

WNBA@wnba.com

THE ATLANTA DREAM ARE HEADED TO THE FINALS 🅰️ The Dream defeat the Liberty 3-0 in the Semis to advance to the Finals for the first time since 2013! #WNBASeason30

There are several videos floating all over social media tonight of Republicans getting their asses handed to them in midterm debates and they're giving me life several times over. Ossoff vs Collins being the most satisfying of them all.

THEY CALL HIM JON "GO OFF" OSSOFF.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

I don't know how it was elsewhere but Freddie Jackson was a fixture on contemporary R&B radio in NYC through the mid-late '80s. I feel like he was even giving Luther some comp for a brief period of time. RIP to a Harlem legend. 🕊️

Dee Phunk@deephunk.bsky.social

I just finished singing “You Are My Lady” by Freddie Jackson the whole time I was in the shower. Complete w/ adlibs that don’t even exist in the song. I have no idea where that came from or why I’m sharing it.

We had a smoke detector here that wouldn't stop beeping. Impossible to open. I put it outside hoping it would just stop. Went from periodic chirping to one long beep. I smashed it w/ my son's baseball bat. That's how I started my morning. Extremely therapeutic.

I haven’t peeped yet but what I’m gleaning from the internet is that Lanterns might be the finest offering of television that DC has produced since Watchmen.

Just turned on the Power to the People Festival livestream to Cypress Hill covering “Jump Around” and I thought I was hallucinating.

Shouts to the mom from my daughter’s soccer team who invited all the girls to her house afterwards to jump in her pool after having to play a game in 102° heat w/ no subs. Instead of the league canceling *all* games today, they decided just the afternoon ones. These adults are ridiculous, man.

This is the face you make when you make eye contact w/ someone you don’t know in the freezer aisle at Trader Joe’s.

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1. Watching this made me want to download SimCity so bad 2. Tomlin's kid is the unheralded co-star 3. When this entire series is out, I'll be falling asleep to hours of this man talking about Jack-and-Jill bathrooms

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Former Steelers HC turned NBC lead football analyst Mike Tomlin started playing Minecraft 12 years ago as a means to bond w/ his kids. Eventually they stopped. He kept going. I watched all 20 minutes of this tour of the city he built and I'm flabbergasted.

Lynx about to get packed up but big shouts to Rookie of the Year Olivia Miles, the whole reason I watched more WNBA this season than any other prior.

Every single player that has touched the floor for the Fever tonight vs the Lynx has a +/- in the negative. Kelsey has a team high of 10 pts midway through the 3rd. The level of mollywhoppage happening right now is wild.

Happy 35th anniversary to Low End Theory. Happy 30th anniversary to Illadelph Halflife. I was two days away from turning 13 and 18, respectively, when these dropped. So much dropped in my early/late teens but I'm not sure any other albums would shape my taste more than these two right here.