Watching Dad Weed at Newgrass with the Benny and my beautiful collaborator. #bluegrass #dadweed #newbergoregon #newgrass

I upgraded to a poster size and transferred over my progress so far (since 1 Jan 25). The poster has 3,333 bubbles - the notebook page had 1,777. Tried to estimate my lifetime practice/performance/jam hours, and it was something like 60,000. #practiceprogress #bluegrass #autisticmusician #music

SNAP Meals: Where To Eat, No Questions Asked, During the Suspension of SNAP - Bridgetown Bites A list of SNAP Meals available at a number of restaurants, cafes, and food trucks in the Portland Metro area while SNAP is unfunded.

If you're in Portland metro looking for free food tomorrow 'cause of SNAP (or for any other reason), here's a list put together by @bridgetownbites.bsky.social with details and addresses. bridgetownbites.com/2025/10/29/s...

my mama died this morning, and my heart is heavy with feelings

Went to see Sam Bush last night with my collaborator and the Benny, the guitarist from my band.

A page in a three-ring binder covered in hundreds of small hollow dots ranging in size from approximately 2mm to 4mm. The dots are arranged to imply the silhouette of an f-style mandolin and the surrounding background. 432 of the dots are filled in with colored ink corresponding to individual hours of various activities related to studying the mandolin and playing it at jams and in a band.

Hours I’ve put into the mandolin this year (starting 1/25/25). Hour per dot. Colors correspond with categories such as practice, rehearsal, playing with others, listening, etc). Size is rough sense of the impact of each hour.

#bluegrass #mandolin #howipractice #howtopractice #progresschart

Having been one (and my primary special interest being learning), I have to say that you know things are REALLY bad when academics won’t go to the place they’re studying because it’s too dangerous.

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Outtake from the last. I was really digging this take and then my phone ran out of power (hence the er er er er electronic stutter and sudden stop at the end). #fiddletune #whiskeybeforebrealfast #bluegrass #mandolin #autisticmusician

Canadian fiddle tune called “Whiskey Before Breakfast.” It was one of the first tunes I learned, so it acts as something of a benchmark for how my playing evolves. #fiddletunes #mandolin #autistiusician

seen just now in a conversation on banjo hangout. mandolins tend to be loud? said by a BANJO player? #banjosareloud #mandolinsarequiet #shouldwepracticeourshapesandcolorstoo

In case you don't understand why our increasing rate of measles infection is a public health nightmare, the BBC explains immune amnesia.
Bottom line? GET YOUR KIDS VACCINATED!

“accidentally”

When we say to just incorporate your mistakes into the music, we don’t mean when you play a wrong note. You should never play wrong notes. We mean momentary lapses of judgement, ill-considered life decisions, impulsive acts of selfishness and fundamental misunderstandings about how the world works.

yes. unfortunately many of them seem to.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.

It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."

Because that's not how America works.
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Bluegrass Legends with Lester Flatt YouTube video by World Bluegrass Day

Bluegrass Legends with Lester Flatt

Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies — and your employer Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.

Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.

"Hickerson enjoyed a long career as a folk musician and archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress." Joe Hickerson, ... www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2... #folkmusic

this is, objectively, a great album.

St Annes Reel (Lower A). Even practicing the TotM on my fretless mandolin. Bowing’s probs all wrong. YouTube video by The Autistic Mandolinist

I am also (trying to) learning the fiddle. It is nominally the same fingerings as the mandolin, but bows are sooooo hard. #fiddle #stannesreel #bluegrass

A for me, all the way. I’m a Wyoming kid that spent their junior high and high school years in grunge-era Seattle and now plays Portland-style bluegrass in Portland, OR.

totes!!

Alternatively, remember what snitches get. Be safe, IBMAs.

"Linus and Lucy", played on banjos YouTube video by Foggy Mountain Spaceship

#nowplaying #musicsky #bluegrass Foggy Mountain Starship - "Linus and Lucy", played on banjos www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXC...

Billy Strings Named Entertainer of the Year at the 36th Annual IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards presented by Get It Played - IBMA Billy Strings Named Entertainer of the Year at the 36th Annual IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards presented by Get It Played  Photo Credit: Ed Rode Photo Credit: Daniel Schram From left to right: Kimber Ludi...

Billy Strings.

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Goodbye Liza Jane

Hawk caught a chicken and he flew upstairs, Goodbye, Oh, Goodbye
Hawk caught a chicken and he flew upstairs, Goodbye Liza Jane.

Oh, how I love her, ain’t that a shame,
Oh, how I love her, Goodbye Liza Jane

#bluegrass #fiddletune #autisticmandolinist

in a good way? i’m pretty sure if someone wrote a fanfic about me it would not be the good kind.