Author: Joe Mahoney

I like things made by people who love their work

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~ Joe Mahoney

🎸To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the official release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco are releasing a deluxe version with 11 LPs, a CD and a book covering the original album, alternative takes, instrumentals, and an entire live show recording. That’s a lot of music! And spendy! I am kind of with Stereogum commentator Bargain Basement Batman: please release a new pressing of the original album!

👷🏽‍♀️This Fesshole confession is the most evil yet

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~ Joe Mahoney

🚲 Adam Sklar’s Supersomething popped up on The Radavist this week and I have never been more enamoured of a bicycle. I’m not a huge stickler for rules, but maybe there is something to the twelfth entry in the Velominati’s comprehensive list:

The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.While the minimum number of bikes one should own is three, the correct number is n+1, where n is the number of bikes currently owned. This equation may also be re-written as s-1, where s is the number of bikes owned that would result in separation from your partner.

🧑🏽‍🎨 Steal Like An Artist is ten years old and still on point. I encourage all the new devs at my work to dig into all Austin Kleon’s books

👩🏽‍💻Yes, every developer uses Google and StackOverflow

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~ Joe Mahoney

🥁 Last week I bought an old favourite on vinyl: Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins. It is a perfect album. The high point for me is when the drums kick in during the second half of Born Secular. Sublime.

🚵‍♀️Don’t you love it when you want to learn how to prevent your bike’s disk brake from rubbing and the first tip in the first video in the search results sorts you out completely?

🦃 Birdle is a daily quiz about birds in and around New Zealand, made by Simon Carryer. My best score is 8/10. If you like the bird on Morning Report you will probably enjoy this one

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~ Joe Mahoney

🥣 Spoons Lucifer On The Sofa lived up to the hype. That cover of Smog’s Held outdoes the original.

🧑‍🎨Great short chat between “essayist who is grumpy that he isn’t more renowned for his extensive career as a cartoonist” Tim Kreider and “writer who draws” Austin Kleon.

🎸 Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours has been on the UK charts for 926 weeks and regularly outsells most other popular artists.

📢 Nicole He has become unimaginably productive thanks to an hourglass and the “breathtaking power of artificial intelligence”

📕 I finished Kirsten McDougall’s She’s a Killer this week, just as a new printing hit the shops. This excerpt on The Spinoff is a perfect taster.