IIRC “Navel-Gazing Tier List” was the name of my high school band’s second album.

Most of the many “…was the name of my high school band” jokes I’ve made over the years were verbal and are lost to time, but some were here on my website or on social media. Since I’ve imported pretty much all of my social media posts onto my website, I realized the other day that it’d be pretty easy to find them all and make a list. But why make a simple chronological or alphabetical list when you could make a tier list? So, with apologies to all four of my readers, here is a tier list of every “…was the name of my high school band” joke I’ve posted over the last 14ish years: “… was the name of my high school band” tier list S Lady Usher and the Black Rods (2019) Least Fungible Walrus (2022) A Ambushed by Ambiguity (2012) Cavernous Scream Chamber (2014) B Fullwidth Interrobang (2016) Thucydides & His Eponymous Trap (2026) C Bear Selector (2021) Hormone Replacement Therapy (2015) D Tertiary Ideographic Plane (2019) Accidental Pompadour (2016) E Agentic Latte (2025) Kind of Cancelled…