David Moore

Former head of @wburcitrus Alum: @WBUR @NPR @pmpio @acast @podchaser Mostly music and sports here (at best). For more tech+media stuff, follow @RueProject

[Footballism @FootbaIIism]

57 seconds of flawless execution 🤌

[Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) @jbenton]

New by me —>

Want to feel old? 10 years ago today, YO launched.

The app let you send a YO to other YO users. That's it. It was like a Facebook poke, minus the nuance.

It was briefly the No. 1 app in the world.

https://t.co/TnFFHLn1Lt

[This Day In Sports Clips @TDISportsClips]

March 3, 1993: Manute Bol drains six threes in one half.

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

if you don't know

https://t.co/a9GuYehqMV

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It's Hawaiian Shirt Day at Red Sox spring training. The ironically impaired Sox marketing team strikes again!

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

LOL

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@united security questions are straight from the Onion

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The next one was "Name your favorite existential phenomenologist"

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

found art

[SurfSkateThrash @SurfThrash]

“Punk Rock changed our lives”

Minutemen
History Lesson – Part II
The Stone; San Francisco, CA (1985)

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

Then I asked: "When was the last time you actually watched a specific, live channel ?" (Rather than something pre-recorded; we have YouTube TV.)

"Um .... Superbowl?"

"Live sports don't count."

<Lots of thoughtful silence>

hashtag on-demand generation

3/3

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

My buddy (age 11) was poring over a (print!) newspaper last weekend. An interesting thing in and of itself. But this paper (@portlandpress) sill has TV listings! 1/3

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

Later on, she told me that she was fascinated by the various long-weekend marathons that certain channels were running . I stopped and asked her: "Do you remember which channels?" She said she remembered one: "E exclamation point". 2/3

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

@billygrene Taylor Swift lyric guessing game -- https://t.co/7dI4JeZH7f

[Anthony Eden @anthony_eden]

Thanks @Mailchimp for this dark pattern on your account-join form.

[David Moore @CrookedNumber]

I had a junior colleague ask me about my time at "Woober" yesterday. (I worked at WBUR.) Just in case you're not already worried about young people not listening to radio.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

The Nine Safeties in #SuperBowl History

[SurfSkateThrash @SurfThrash]

DEVO
Gates of Steel
Fridays 1980

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

The first safety in #SuperBowl history

Dwight White downs #Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton in the end zone for a 2-0 #Steelers lead.

Super Bowl IX
January 12, 1975