I’m watching the new Taskmaster and do the English hate olives? They’re doing a bit where they have to eat olives and all the English people are acting like they’re jalapeños or something. They’re horrified by olives.

Also just stumbled on a cover of “Used Cars” by Ward Hayden and the Outliers and it’s changed my opinion of the song and reinforced my opinion that Bruce Springsteen is one of the greatest country songwriters ever.

It’s funny because when I picture a Bakersfield club in 1960 what I see is any interior scene in a Clint Eastwood movie. I picture Bakersfield in the 60s as “Any Which Way but Lose”

Decided I wasn’t going to write so I’m fucking around on Spotify and I stumbled on this kid Chandler Dozier who’s going hard into neo-traditional Bakersfield sound and man if I had a fucking Time Machine I’d wanna spend a few weeks in Bakersfield in the 50s and 60s and caught a few shows.

Someone who runs a TV channel needs to give me millions of dollars so I can travel to iconic American towns, eat food and listen to local music while experts tell me about the towns history. Basically I want someone to pay me for the world’s coolest ass food tour.

Kaitlin Butts covered “The Middle” by Jimmy Eats World last night and it was wild because I both immediately recognized the song but had to Google the band. And it might have been my favorite part of the show.

Y’all wanna know something? One night I fought a man who was accused of aggravated assault. Before I could get him in handcuffs a loaded handgun fell out of the cuff of his pants. He was reaching for the pistol when I went hands on. This is scarier.

Ok fuck y’all I sent the email to the storytelling people. I pitched Turkey Sandwich, Paradise and Dashboard Lights, and 3rd Floor Tigers. Now I wait for the inevitable rejection.

Anything to avoid sending that pitch email I guess.

Where would one find a used accordion and accordion lessons?

Y’all all talking about Taylor Swift and they just released an entire album of previously unreleased Waylon Jennings material.

Ah fuck I gotta email those story telling people and pitch a story. Y’all bully me until I do this or I’ll let my laziness be an excuse for chickening out.

That said I can barely afford to vacation in Europe how the fuck am I supposed to just move there? Lot of folks like to posture as the downtrodden working class and then say shit that proves they live a life of privilege. Most Americans, the majority, can’t afford international travel.

Gonna delete a fairly angry quote because I went off a tad half-cocked and the original poster eventually made my point for me further down in the thread. Anyway the ability to just leave the US and immigrate somewhere else is INTENSE privilege. Most Americans cant.

Y’all really can’t blame me for shitting on Massachusetts when the post complimenting Boston got 1/2 the interactions of a post complaining about it. I’m not an asshole, I’m just responding to market forces.

Still can’t get over the fact that I got home from a show in Boston an hour quicker than I got home from a show in my own neighborhood when both shows ended at the same time though. Nightlife ain’t never easy in Massachusetts.

Ima do something a little out of character and admit that I had a nice time in Boston last night and most of the people I bumped into were decent and chill.

This website is consistently at its worse when it talks about itself. 48hrs of navel gazing bullshit forum drama is almost enough to make me log off and touch grass.

Another observation: it seems the Boston art school kids have adopted a “western fashion” that’s far more little house on the prairie than Honky Tonk angel. Lot of young ladies look like Tradwives tonight.

I do however demand to know why Flatland cut the Pat Green cover from their Medley in Boston. Did they not think a Massachusetts crowd would recognize “Wave on Wave”? Play the song cowards.

Also gotta say the Flatland Cavalry crowd was excellent. I’m still very meh on their music but the kids were polite and into it. It was a fun show.

Got home quicker from a show in Wrigleyville in Boston than I did last week from a venue I can hear from my house.

My review of the Kaitlin Butts/Flatland Cavalry show is needs more Kaitlin Butts. She should’ve been the headline. That said the young ladies really seem to dig Flatland so if I was seventeen and single I’d learn a few of their songs.

Kid next to me at the Kaitlin Butts/Flatland Cavalry show with X’s on his hand is downright killing it. Gave his date his sweatshirt. Kids got game.

The problem with putting together roughly 10k of the best words I’ve written is I’ve run out of juice. I haven’t written a functioning word since. The reason columnists go crazy and just write variations of the same story is because it’s impossible to write 3k good words a week.

There’s not a lot as annoying as the blue heart emoji resist lib accounts who have zero sense of humor and for some weird reason really foul mouths but forum drama and bullshit fights with the mods is close.

My kid takes the absolute worst school photos and I find it hilarious. Just horrible photos. It’s amazing. I love it.

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Just a periodic reminder that some of the most politically outspoken athletes/entertainers right now are big ass wrassling dudes, particularly in AEW where their boss lets them have free expression instead of doing events next to Donald Trump and moving Wrestlemania to Saudi Arabia

I honestly try very hard to keep my hatred of Massachusetts tamped down to reasonable levels. I wanna be curmudgeonly not psycho but sometimes it feels like these Yankee fucks have a meeting and decide just to fuck with me and today is one of those fucking days.

This is why I’m an AEW guy.

My spouse came downstairs, kenneled the dog and left for work and neither they nor the dog realized I was sitting on the couch in the living room.

Between the ICE recruiting commercial running every five minutes during wrestling and the VA email about how the radical left democrats shut down the government I’ve about fucking had it today.

Saw a deer this evening and my kid immediately pulled up a years old hunting memory. “You remember when that buck snorted at us dad?” YEA I DO BECAUSE I TOLD YOU IF WE WAITED 5 MORE MINUTES WE MIGHT GET A SHOT BUT YOU WERE GETTING SCARED BECAUSE THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN!

Bro this website sucks and I shoulda stayed in the woods.

It is a fine day to help a buddy with a chore before deer season even in Massachusetts. Feels good to be cool. Get a little mud on my boots and sawdust on my shirt. So if you will turn with me in your hymnal to disc three track one and join me in praise… music.youtube.com/watch?v=hFBD...

This is probably one of the most deeply personal things I’ve ever written. It’s about fathers and sons, traditions, country music, grief and the greatest time of year. I hope y’all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. in-the-pines.ghost.io/the-squirrel...

I’m gonna walk the dog and take a shower and this fucking story is gonna come out fully formed before my head hits the pillow but I’ll forget it before I open my laptop tomorrow.

God they’re playing Patsy Cline’s “Sweet Dreams” There are people in this world who don’t gasp a little when that song begins to play and how? Why?

Seven minutes left til I gotta pack it in and I don’t know why I won’t close the laptop. Nothing is going to happen. Story’s not here tonight.

I couldn’t make words work tonight so I accidentally got tipsy and now I’m listening to Don Gibson “Sea of Heartbreak”

Aright, so if I want to do the storytelling thing I’ve got to pitch a story so y’all help me out. Categories are: Tricks Food (I’m thinking of pitching Turkey sandwich) The Most Wonderful/Awful Time of Year Turning Points We Love Love Luck Potpourri (3rd Floor Tigers) Any story I should pitch?

I came up in the age of military hazing and there is zero training value in getting drunk, forcing the newest private into a flak vest and using them as a dart board.

A local group is looking for people to tell stories live and I should do that huh?

Crohns says no deadlifts today. My body isn’t happy with bending and pulling

Hey thank y’all so much for reading and appreciating my stuff. It’s still weirdly intimidating to share writing, and since I write very personally it’s kinda like giving away a tiny bit of myself. It’s scary. Knowing that folks get something out of it makes it easier.

I deal in nostalgia a lot it seems. Yet I never seem to land in the place where WalMart was awesome or 1999 was better. I don’t think my nostalgia is the same as the shit we see from internet reactionaries and I don’t know how or why, but I should explore that.

Man it is uh…. It’s a fucked up hurtful feeling to stumble across an estranged MAGA relatives comment on today’s blog post. They think we hate them, when in reality it just hurts so fucking bad to see what they’ve become or what they’ve always been.

Oh so an ab wheel sucks bad bad