Insomniacs' Venthole

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Friday December 05, 2025 · 8:57 PM PST

2025/12/05 · 20:57

Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. This is a late-night gathering for non-serious palaver, enter at your own risk. Frivolity and silliness are highly recommended for all riders. Flamewars are expressly forbidden.

Whatado evraybody, whatado.

We go another flocking on Monday, but it has steadily warmed up to 34!! degrees and it’s all melting away.

Friday, December 5
Jimmy Kimmel: Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Sen. Mark Kelly, De La Soul (R 11/25/25)
Jimmy Fallon: The Jonas Brothers, Matthew Rhys, A'ja Wilson, Fiona Cauley (R 11/13/25)
Stephen Colbert: Julia Roberts, John Fogerty (R 11/17/25)
Seth Meyers: Cynthia Erivo, Brooks Wheelan (R 11/20/25)
Comics Unleashed: Blair Socci, James Adomian, Arnez J, Jason Collings (R 10/29/25)

Saturday, December 6

SNL: Melissa McCarthy, Dijon

Picks: Griz, Boise, OH, GA, VA

Sea, TB, Indy, GB, LAR

Late Night Insomniacs Vent Hole

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Friday December 05, 2025 · 7:55 PM PST

2025/12/05 · 19:55

Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. This is a no flame zone. This vent-hole (hereinafter known as IVH), if lost or stolen will not be replaced or purchase price refunded. Violation of IVH rules will result in expulsion without refund. A copy of IVH rules can be obtained from one or more members wearing tie-dyed oxford shirts after written requests. Admission to certain functions within the IVH may require additional innuendo, enter at your own risk. Frivolity and silliness are highly recommended for all riders. Flame wars are expressly forbidden. Please consult your counselor, magistrate or religious functionary before usage. Comment below if you agree with said terms.

SPOILER WARNING: A late night gathering for non-serious palaver that does not speak of that night's show. Posting a spoiler will get your brolly whacked. You don't want that to happen to you.

Evening, Fellow Vent Hooligans! Welcome to the Wednesday Night IVH! Finally coming out of my Thanksgiving coma! Cooking, cleaning, eating, cleaning and eating some more. Ate the last piece of Lemon Meringue Pie last night, still so good!

Love all the lights on houses, I’ll get my tree next weekend, I guess. I keep it up until my birthday, Jan 6. which Trump has ruined. Worse yet, he pardoned all the idiots , so everyone got off scot free, including him!

Don’t Forget To Dance

South Dakota State Jackrabbits @ Montana Grizzlies

UNLV @ Boise State

Indiana @ tOSU

Georgia @ Alabama

Duke @ Virginia

SEA @ ATL

NO @ TB

INDY @ J’VILLE

CHI @ GB

LAR @ AZ

RIP Steve Cropper

“MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.'s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics "Green Onions," "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour," has died. He was 84.” NPR

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Jimmy Kimmel: John Cena, Druski, Silvana Estrada
Jimmy Fallon: Noah Schnapp, Gwen Stefani, Amanda Gorman
Stephen Colbert: Michael Shannon, Jessie Buckley, Prince Harry
Seth Meyers: Tiffany Haddish, Cristin Milioti, Joachim Trier (R 11/6/25)
Comics Unleashed: Dulcé Sloan, John Hastings, Butch Bradley, Greg Warren
Watch What Happens Live: Madison LeCroy, Austen Kroll
The Daily Show: Asi Wind, host Josh Johnson

This. is a. good one...

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IVH: Television / Marquee Moon

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Thursday December 04, 2025 · 9:02 PM PST

2025/12/04 · 21:02

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Tonight’s selections from Television’s debut album, Marquee Moon. Originally published May 2022.

They came, rewrote the book on guitar rock and then split up, leaving only a pair of seminal new wave records behind as proof they had ever existed at all. The brainchild of Tom Verlaine (Miller) and Richard Hell (whose crucial role in the band was actually over before its recording career got under way), Television was a revolutionary force on New York’s Bowery circuit in the mid-’70s, an unprecedented amalgam of the Velvet Underground’s primal scream, Bob Dylan’s esoteric detachment, Roky Erickson’s brain-spasm pop and John Coltrane’s high-wire improvisation. Influenced by, and in turn influential on, Suicide, Talking Heads, Patti Smith and David Bowie (and countless others), Television threw punk’s disdain for guitar jamming back in the face of those who didn’t realize that the form could still be mined for nail-biting excitement and high rock’n’roll art.

Live, they were the ultimate garage band with pretensions, but on record they achieved a polish that added genuine strength. Evolving from the Neon Boys, Television initially consisted of Verlaine (guitar/vocals), Richard Lloyd (guitar), Billy Ficca (drums) and Hell (bass). Hell left to form the Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders, and ex-Blondie bassist Fred Smith (not the MC5 one) took over his slot. Thus constituted (and less inclined toward collapse), Television recorded “Little Johnny Jewel,” a privately pressed single which many regard as a turning point for the whole New York underground rock scene.

Elektra signed Television and released Marquee Moon, which was produced by Andy Johns, in 1977. A tendency to “jam” onstage caused detractors (and, paradoxically, British fans) to view them as the Grateful Dead of punk, but it was the distinctive two-guitar interplay (along with Verlaine’s nails-on-a-chalkboard vocals) that set them apart. The staccato singing in “Prove It” and “Friction” is impressive, and the long, extraordinarily dramatic workout on the title track showed a willingness to break away from the solidifying traditions of more self-conscious contemporaries. — Trouser Press

See No Evil

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So you say you want a revolution? Two rearguard beatniks banded together on the anything-goes streets of Manhattan in the early ’70s, at the height of its post-apocalyptic glamour, when taxi cabs hated to venture below 14th Street but the see-and-be-seen crowd couldn’t resist it.

Those who came from elsewhere came to define the scene. Richard Meyers and Tom Miller were two gifted reprobates who fled to New York from a well-to-do Delaware boarding school. They knocked around the stylish wilderness of the Lower East Side and the more civilized clubs and coffee houses of Greenwich Village. Grasping at the potential for the full-scale reinvention that New York had provided Robert Zimmerman [Bob Dylan] roughly a decade previous, they changed their surnames to Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine in an unsubtle nod to the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Those two had engaged in a tumultuous, tormented love affair rife with overweening passion, disastrous emotional reversals, and eventual gun violence. This was all forensically recorded in Rimbaud’s 1873 bloodletting A Season in Hell—the antidote to anyone who imagines that the concept of oversharing is an invention of the modern age.

Hell and Verlaine consciously fashioned themselves after Verlaine and Rimbaud in just about every possible way, with the exception of actually shooting each other. They weren’t lovers, but they were best friends. They wrote together and they plotted their particular type of world domination. Both young men were exquisitely beautiful: Verlaine tall and languid with haunting, dramatic, hollowed-out eyes and Hell with the square-jawed matinee idol looks and sullen vulnerability of Montgomery Clift. Verlaine was quiet, tense, and reserved. Hell was horny, consumptive, and gregarious. They published chapbooks and faux biographies and various literary acts of vandalism of the Burroughs-inspired sort. They called their first band the Neon Boys. It was sorta trash rock and sorta poetry. They were good, but too bookish for the [New York] Dolls crowd and too glam for the lit scene. If the New York intelligentsia wouldn’t have them, then they would just have to change the calculus. They’d have to program a channel all their own. — The Ringer

Friction

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Another early CBGB’s and Max’s stalwart was Patti Smith who had a soaring talent matched with a relentless drive that propelled her to be everywhere all at once. She performed for and wrote with playwright Sam Shepard, roomed with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, recited her poetry with the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, wrote songs for Blue Öyster Cult and took a turn in rock journalism writing for Rolling Stone and Creem. Like Verlaine, she was inspired by the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, and this passion helped unite them both romantically and professionally.

Smith championed Television as the real deal; authenticity in the face of a penchant of style over substance. After experiencing Television live at CBGB’s she wrote, “As the band played on you could hear the whack of pool cue hitting the balls, the saluki [Hilly’s dog] barking, bottles clinking, the sound of the scene emerging. Though no one knew it, the stars were aligning, the angels were calling.” — Classic Album Sundays

Marquee Moon

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WHO’S TALKING TO WHO?

Jimmy Kimmel: Miley Cyrus, Cameron Crowe, Rufus Wainwright
Jimmy Fallon: Walton Goggins, Natalia Dyer, Fran Lebowitz, Oz Pearlman
Stephen Colbert: Jen Psaki, "Weird Al" Yankovic
Seth Meyers: Joel Edgerton, Elle Fanning, Edgar Wright (R 11/11/25)
Comics Unleashed: Beth Stelling, Alonzo Bodden, Steve Trevino, Jamie Lissow
Watch What Happens Live: Rep. Robert Garcia, Kyle Richards
The Daily Show: Ken Casey, host Jordan Klepper

Insomniacs' Late Night Vent Hole - In Support of Mark Kelly Edition

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Tuesday December 02, 2025 · 9:00 PM PST

2025/12/02 · 21:00

Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. This is a no flame zone. This vent-hole (hereinafter known as IVH), if lost or stolen will not be replaced or purchase price refunded. Violation of IVH rules will result in expulsion without refund. A copy of IVH rules can be obtained from one or more members wearing tie-dyed oxford shirts after written requests. Admission to certain functions within the IVH may require additional innuendo, enter at your own risk. Frivolity and silliness are highly recommended for all riders. Flame wars are expressly forbidden. Please consult your counselor, magistrate or religious functionary before usage. Comment below if you agree with said terms.

SPOILER WARNING: A late night gathering for non-serious palaver that does not speak of that night's show. Posting a spoiler will get your brolly whacked. You don't want that to happen to you.

I came across this on YouTube this weekend. I don’t know how you feel about Mark Kelly, but I think we need more like him. Mark Kelly has credentials far beyond p45/47’s wildest dreams, Mark is believable and speaks true. I suspect this could be AI generated, but I’m not sure, shoulder movements don’t look “right”.

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Who you gonna trust, a military hero or a carnival barker? I know where I’d put my money and it won’t be on (maga) !

Who is on late night tonight: Tuesday, December 2

Jimmy Kimmel: Gillian Anderson, Kevin Nealon, Jack Johnson featuring Hermanos Gutiérrez
Jimmy Fallon: Amanda Seyfried, Reba McEntire, Kon Knueppel, Of Monsters and Men
Stephen Colbert: Rachel Maddow, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell
Seth Meyers: Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin, Stavros Halkias (R 11/4/25)
Comics Unleashed: Eleanor Kerrigan, Jordan Conley, Eddie Ifft, Allen Strickland Williams

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As always, this is an open thread, all topics are welcome, this is a place of safe ranting!

Insomniacs' late night venthole

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Monday December 01, 2025 · 9:51 PM PST

2025/12/01 · 21:51

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Tonight's lineup:

Jimmy Kimmel: Zoe Saldaña, Paul Anka
Jimmy Fallon: Sydney Sweeney, Tom Pelphrey, Alex G
Stephen Colbert: Lady Gaga, Mikie Sherrill, Kristin Chenoweth, Stephen Schwartz, Daniel Craig
Seth Meyers: Maya Rudolph, Adam Pally (R 10/22/25)
Comics Unleashed: Jackie Kashian, Gianmarco Soresi, Tahir Moore, Andrew Orolfo
Watch What Happens Live: Max Salvador, Victoria Sanjuan
The Daily Show: Elizabeth Kolbert, host Jon Stewart

hi everyone, how was your weekend?

I've barely left the house in days to be honest. There's some sort of internal metamorphosis underway. In the meantime I'm slowly catching up on a bunch of long-deferred projects. Took two boxes of unwanted items to Goodwill... put pictures on the walls... ordered window screens... made a map for my friend's walking tour... finished reading a novel for my book group and started another that I borrowed from my daughter months ago... lots more to do while waiting for something to rise to the surface.

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