The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Trois

France has launched a new stamp that smells like a croissant

 

It sure beats the last one - Eau d'Armpit du Francois Mitterand

 

Geebus....don't give Trump any ideas!

 

I received my SSA check 6 days early....never happened before!

 

Kyle Meredith ·
After years of campaigning, #DavidLetterman will finally get to induct #WarrenZevon into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The late-night legend’s loyalty to Zevon has always been more than fanboy devotion. This is the guy who made him bandleader-for-a-night and sat beside him during one of the most gut-wrenching final TV appearances of all time.
Zevon died in 2003, but his wit, rage, and romantic pessimism never really left the building. Now, he’s finally making it into the Hall (under “Musical Influence,” because heaven forbid they call him a rock star), and Letterman will be the one to swing the axe. Took long enough, but the Werewolves of Cleveland are howling tonight.

 

ooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!

 

Think he'd be excited. Or not.

Enjoy every sandwich.

 

Saw a werewolf sipping a Pina Colada at Trader Joe's

His hair was perfect

 

As for who's still been snubbed, can't argue with many of these.

https://consequence.net/list/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-snubs-list/britney-spears/

For me it'd be many fo the 80s alternative biggies like Bad Brains, Devo, Husker Du, Joy Division/New Order, Jane's Addiction, Pavement, Pixies, Sonic Youth. The Smiths alone is a glaring omission. I'd like to see the Go Gos and Weird Al in too. Guess classic rawk old farts still in control.

 

Sherman!



https://bsky.app/profile/inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social/post/3m2sigqcdtk2t

 

I've seen The Runaways mentioned for the HOF too

 

This sums it up for me, especially as it applies to Bad Brains, Fugazi, etc.:
"Chart Performance: Bad Brains never really made much of an appearance on the charts -- and they were never supposed to. They were ********ing punks, man. It would have defeated the whole point. So, ******** you and your poser-ass charts."

 

Thanks I had never heard that song before and it definitely is pure Warren.

 

Not far from Frackville, Pottsville and Jim Thorpe, PA lies Centralia. An underground coal fire's been burning there for the past 60+ years.

 

All the single ladies, all the single ladies

In the age of algorithms, one Irish town still does love the old-fashioned way

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5563978/ireland-matchmaking-festival-irish-love

 

An Oklahoma girls basketball team returned its championship after discovering it actually lost the title game - CBS News

 

Whoa Nellie!

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — The Academy of Classical Christian Studies

 

I feel like they had one good album, but yeah, maybe.



New Order and The Smiths OTOH, much greater output and influence.

 

I’ve been there. It’s nowhere near as post-apocalyptically cool as it sounds.

 

The 70s were the era where average kids & adults just said "F it. I'm gonna jump over shit just like Evil Knievel"

 

and he was Jimmy the Flying Greek as opposed to Jimmy the Greek.

 

The same thing is happening in China, decades long burning mines.