NYC Fifthdom! Monday night, 6pm, Fifth-adjacent Nick Gillespie is interviewing Kat Rosenfield for the Reason Speakeasy. $10 https://reason.org/events/katrosenfield/
*I have my tix and look like my photo if anyone winds up going and wants to have an awkward exchange
Spotify playlist- cool stuff. Extra points for including When Jokers Attack (what a great guitar line).
In people who died in January music news- y’all should pour one out for the late great Screaming Trees bassist, Van Conner. No sarcasm from me here at all- they’re one of my favorite bands. Sad news.
“Hyperactive, almost nebbishy, maybe slightly an acquired taste” - this is plagiarism, as I’m positive it was lifted directly from a text my girlfriend wrote to her parents when they asked, “so tell me about that new guy you’re dating”
Great playlist Matt! I was weirdly listening to a lot of the same stuff back then. (Listened to that Beck album incessantly) Got the Swan sisters on there too.
You remember the Swans?? They used to play on acoustic night at Goldfinger's (like the rest of us), and were totally arresting ... then I forgot about them for nearly two decades, then I was like "Who were those really interesting chick sisters with the bizarre names?" This took longer than I thought, and led to at least two friends insisting that I was making it all up ... until I read a Steven Hyden piece about Zwan, and it triggered the memory, and anyway I'm glad one person appreciated it!
Yeah I was saying to myself “Matt Welch knows the Swans!?” I mean that is a deeeep cut from the LA scene 20 plus years ago. Happy to see you put them on there.
I also have personal (albeit tangential) connections to them. I know people that know them lets say.
I say the list needs more Latinos. Remember the Mexican-American libertarian whose podcast Matt went on a few months ago? I’d go full Kmele for that guy.
NYC Fifthdom! Monday night, 6pm, Fifth-adjacent Nick Gillespie is interviewing Kat Rosenfield for the Reason Speakeasy. $10 https://reason.org/events/katrosenfield/
*I have my tix and look like my photo if anyone winds up going and wants to have an awkward exchange
Would you believe me if I said I also look like my photo?
What a splendid opportunity to get Kat on the pod.
Matt was robbed! Also, Moynihan, please stop looking so deep into my soul.
You would think he would at least make runner-up.
This erasure of Nick Gillespie as the predominate sex symbol within the libertarian community is a gross injustice.
#getgillespieonthelist
Spotify playlist- cool stuff. Extra points for including When Jokers Attack (what a great guitar line).
In people who died in January music news- y’all should pour one out for the late great Screaming Trees bassist, Van Conner. No sarcasm from me here at all- they’re one of my favorite bands. Sad news.
Dig Van’s bass work in this tune-
https://youtu.be/LbpmkqwUBAU
I enjoyed the pointed assurance that Robby Soave was of legal age in that photo.
It was necessary. He looks 12.
Yeah, my reaction was "Oh, look at the baby Soave pic!" This kind of remark has gotten me in trouble before, but apparently I've learned nothing.
OMG look at the baby Remy!!!
...I have a problem.
My first thought was, "dear lord, was he even legal?" and sure enough they knew everyone was going to wonder the same, lol
“Hyperactive, almost nebbishy, maybe slightly an acquired taste” - this is plagiarism, as I’m positive it was lifted directly from a text my girlfriend wrote to her parents when they asked, “so tell me about that new guy you’re dating”
Great playlist Matt! I was weirdly listening to a lot of the same stuff back then. (Listened to that Beck album incessantly) Got the Swan sisters on there too.
You remember the Swans?? They used to play on acoustic night at Goldfinger's (like the rest of us), and were totally arresting ... then I forgot about them for nearly two decades, then I was like "Who were those really interesting chick sisters with the bizarre names?" This took longer than I thought, and led to at least two friends insisting that I was making it all up ... until I read a Steven Hyden piece about Zwan, and it triggered the memory, and anyway I'm glad one person appreciated it!
Yeah I was saying to myself “Matt Welch knows the Swans!?” I mean that is a deeeep cut from the LA scene 20 plus years ago. Happy to see you put them on there.
I also have personal (albeit tangential) connections to them. I know people that know them lets say.
No Matt Welch? List is poop.
Moynihan’s nebbishness is super hot.
It’s hotter than a nun in a cucumber patch. Amirite?
"Hyperactive, almost nebbishy, maybe slightly an acquired taste."
I always assumed that (apart from you three guys) all libertarians looked like this: https://www.lp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Supreme.jpg
Now I'm a bit disappointed and a bit horny.
I think that hot tub Stossel shot has put my penis into hibernation for at least a week—Yikes!
I don't know what they need with 25 anyway, it starts with Kmele Foster, and it ends with Kmele Foster, simple system.
Moynihan - ACQUIRED TASTE? need comments please.
No homo here, but I was surprised Mark Pellegrino, who played "Lucifer" in the TV series "Supernatural" didn't make the list.
No homo here, but Gary Oldman could do pretty much whatever he wants to me.
I say the list needs more Latinos. Remember the Mexican-American libertarian whose podcast Matt went on a few months ago? I’d go full Kmele for that guy.
A lot of homo here.
Gustavo Arellano?
No, this guy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3XAgJNUU04
I like Gustavo too, but from a man-objectifying standpoint, he’s not my type.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ssDICRX_rK8
Yeah, Chris Parnell too. For way less than $900.
That list is great, mostly because it says it's in no particular order, then literally orders them.
re: 29 hottest libertarian men.
Huh... maybe I *don't* want to date a libertarian. Congratulations to Moynihan and Kmele!!!!! Matt, you're an honorary in my heart <3
Also, how did Nick Gillespie not make the list?
I would like to say as a confidently heterosexual man:
Sorry, #26 is actually a lot hunkier than #25
#27 should actually be in the top 10 and I blame racism for it.
The list seems to be a bit hit or miss after #2 with Libertarian men looking like either an Aryan dream Ken-doll or the Geico caveman.