Link Digest: 11/25/25

During Jefitoblog's original run from 2005-'08, I, like everyone else, had a blogroll pointing readers to other sites run by pals and/or people I admired. A lot of those sites are no longer with us, and for a long time, it felt like fun hangout sites had been permanently replaced by social media.

This was clearly not the case; if anything, more people are writing more than ever, to the point where finding new voices to tune into can feel awfully daunting (not to mention expensive in the aggregate). With that in mind, I want to start periodically rounding up links to cool stuff I've read lately. Here's the first batch:

Niko Stratis writes about the end of Marc Maron's WTF, lauding Maron for his many laudable qualities while lamenting the fact that so much of our cultural discourse comes from the same type of voice, and also gives us a post that's nominally about the 50th anniversary of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," but also about how consistently and automatically and unfeelingly manual labor is disregarded;

Rax King deftly wrings poignant eloquence out of a lifetime of making mixtapes and mix CDs;

Chimes of Freedom goes deep on the Soul Stirrers' "Last Mile of the Way," recently featured in the Springsteen biopic no one watched;

Any Major Dude celebrates Neil Young's 80th birthday properly — which is to say by rounding up cool covers of his songs — and also offers up a delightful assortment of TV show themes, followed by a rockin' Christmas mixtape;

Py Korry writes about the bygone rite of passage that was losing one's parents at the mall;

Bruce Warren at Some Velvet Blog offers up his current Top Ten;

Offline Crush lists some cool sites for music discovery;

Homestar Runner returns;

and Rosy Overdrive pays tribute to some of her favorite labels by highlighting their best releases of the year.