Gig tonight:

It just swam up into my brain like an acid flashback that I once got registered to vote at a Chromeo show.

A digital flyer depicting a creature seemingly made of marijuana leaves with angry yet weary eyes somewhat reminiscent of the character Gossamer from Loony Tunes cartoons. Above the creature the bands 4 Star Review Band, Deep Fortune, and Storm Coffee are listed, and below the creature are the show's details: April 3 at White Squirrel, no cover, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Drumming at a gig at White Squirrel April 3:

FAWD 001: The Last "Best Albums" List of 2025 The Last “Best Albums” List of 2025 For several years I’ve been meaning to start a newsletter, so here I am, starting one. Thanks for reading. This could be...

Friday night a buddy of mine sent me a belated list of his favorite albums of 2025 in a big Google Doc. In response, I finished my own too-late year-end list and launched this newsletter. Check it out if you're still confused about what music was good last year: buttondown.com/fellasleepwa...

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

Secret Police, by Storm Coffee track by Storm Coffee

My band Storm Coffee has a new song, "Secret Police," out tonight, part of an upcoming EP. Although Tom wrote it last spring, it unfortunately remains topical. Any proceeds from this single release will be donated to Minneapolis aid organizations. stormcoffee.bandcamp.com/track/secret...

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

Absolute Immunity Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.

Let me give you a thought experiment:

Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.

www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

The plural of "oaf" should "oaves" like "loaves" is to "loaf."

there should be no terrified masked poorly trained out of state militia empowered to act extrajudiciously on the street and that is the political floor

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

This sort of energy we need going forward. President Obama and Biden both were mistaken to not prosecute those who committed torture, committed fraud and broke laws in the financial crisis during Bush 2 years and obviosly all the Trump attempt to overturn the election and stealing classified docs.

tired: everything's computer
wired: fewer things will be computer

A sign at El Burrito Mercado noting that everyone is welcome except ICE

A friendly reminder that El Burrito Mercado has awesome stocking stuffers, tamales, and most everything else you need. And they need your business.

It’s chronologically impossible, but Miles Davis’ “Calypso Frelimo” kinda sounds like a Latin funk jam built around the bassline to one of the ghost house levels from Mario.

the somali people will always be in minnesota. they will always be in america. they are minnesotans and americans; they are our community and there is nothing the gutter racist trash in the white house is going to do that will change that

The humble Ghiradelli box mix brownie handily wastes so many more highfalutin desserts. An unreal product.

Nice try, Gmail. I resented your pre-sorted tabs when they rolled out, and I think I'm smarter than spell check. Disabling these features to avoid training your AI is nothing to me.

Congratulations!

Reading *On the Road* in eighth grade made me start thinking about language itself and words as sounds, rather than just utilitarian, linear communication tools.

Smaller-scale: Colson Whiteheads's *Sag Harbor* turned me into a semi-knowledgeable old school hip-hop listener.

Now Would Be A Good Time, by Folk Bitch Trio 10 track album

I think this Folk Bitch Trio album is pretty front-loaded, but man do I dig those first three songs: folkbitchtrio.bandcamp.com/album/now-wo...

better things are possible

The political pundits that have been trying to get you to sell out other human beings as a power move to win elections are both intellectually and morally bankrupt.

Baked an apple cake last night. Man, I get a true thrill out of putting each baking ingredient away as you use them in the recipe, so the kitchen gets less messy as you go. Feels like a magic trick.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Spoke to a couple of Twin Cities tube amp builders for @racketmn.com

tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude