yeah i separate art from the artist. i put the harry potter books in the recycling and jk rowling in the trash.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

we have got to start being meaner to people who are still fans of harry potter. i don't give a shit what you were going through when you read it. that is not your "comfort character" that is a wizard cop written by a mold-addled racist transphobe

George Wallace is one of our greatest Americans and whatnot.

Here's a clip of "The Dark Don't Hide It" I took last night with Jake Lenderman doing guest vocals and third guitar. One of those shows I'm glad I traveled to see.

FWIW, he was out there for at least 7 songs and he absolutely did justice to the songs he sang lead vocals on, but Magnolia with Will is absolutely incredible on its own too. Such a cathartic, magical, special night.

YES

fuckin' Bobby Hickman, the long con of upselling old Dodge Caravans he's painted seems like more trouble than it's worth

"No, honey, we don't need The Rock, we've got one at home." The one at home:

I really really wish I'd said "steppin FRESH in the Fresh Step" but hindsight is 20/20

Me on the toilet

It's called "fashion," look it up

I've had so many moral/ethical/philosophical debates with myself about my continued following of the organization when it all feels so gross but goddammit, seeing Ozuna penciled in to the cleanup spot tonight (and really ever since his DUI and domestic issues) just takes the damn cake. Free AA.

***guitars not included*** *slams down phone* "the deal is OFF!"

It must feel amazing to launch a dinger out of Truist Park. Sending a rocket through the front window of a 300-seat Bonefish Grill in the adjacent mall, all the Vineyard Vines dudes in there are so scared at the sound that they instantly jump into their Sorcerer-size SUVs and drive 55 minutes home.

I can't bring myself to pay for something twice.

Man I feel this so hard. Do I gotta download Soulseek again? C'mon man. I only buy vinyl but my car and lawnmower cause so many skips, it's not working.

The Cup of Coffee newsletter by @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social moved to Beehiiv to start 2024 and stunk, then migrated from there to Ghost and as a daily reader (usually just e-mail, not often a web site/commenter) I have no complaints with Ghost. Move on from those that profit off Nazi shit.

It was eerie driving to work through it this morning at 7:30, clearly not fog.

Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad.

It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.

We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.

FAFO is for trump voting farmers or roofing company ceos acting puzzled their workers are gone or maga influencers protesting their tariff bill for their podcast merch

Not for dead kids or parents mourning dead kids

Figure it out

Boomers will get eaten by a shark just to prove a point

Now, CSB and the Cocaine Wolves are just memories, and B-Dubs is proffering a pale imitation of what I'd quaff from my chalice on the rock throne. Instead I'll have an IPA in this IKEA chair tonight I guess.

Central State Brewing already made a keg of this radler using their gose (Garden) and Mountain Dew in 2019 for my last band's record release party. [Dropping in a shot of gin put it over the top in a surprisingly delicious way.]

A blue T-shirt with white screen print of a koala-lookin' cartoon bear in baseball shirt with "ACAB" on it waving a pennant that says "FUCK ICE" and we love the bear, his message, his spirit, we love him. Shirt designed and sold recently by Farewell Transmission with profits benefiting Border Kindness.

yesterday, today, tomorrow, forever

I've never had a Spindrift I didn't think sucked balls. Short's Brewing's Thirst Mutilator sparkling hop water in grape is tight, too, but a little more expensive than just grabbing Waterloo from the store.