Tacoma Rock City

My power over reality is terrifying sometimes

Emo band that played a sincere cover of Buddy Holly, broke down their drums on stage and then left immediately. They're gonna go far.

Worried that tonight's venue might be too... twisted

Our place in Eugene has a Gamer Loft

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Dispatches from war-ravaged Portland

Perfect median voter conversation at the airport bar: - The Guardians shouldn't have changed their name and only did it "for the controversy"(?) - The Commanders should have changed their name, it was good that they did that

Here it is six times in a row.

I follow some local tattoo artists and the number of people still getting Harry Potter ones is fuckin grim

The Blade Runner Understander has logged on

A Scheming Vizier situation seems preferable to whatever this is tbh

I forgot I downloaded this

“He believes in science”

Update

Hertz does not have the van we need for tour, which we've had booked for over a month. Off to a great start.

Hi! I borrowed $300m from the worst people in the world to buy your favourite thing! Now your favourite thing owes me $300m and sadly it looks like it can’t pay me back so I’ve taken it out back and shot it. Anyways, just wanted to ask… what’s your *second* favourite thing?

boy I’m fuckin shocked. this is my shocked face etc

Back on my bullshit (digging Halloween decorations out of the basement while listening to Leaves Turn Inside You)

Love to post shit like "here's what Democrats need to do:" followed by a list of modestly obstructionist things that Democrats will never, ever do

Thank you to the random woman at the anarchist bookstore who asked if I worked there, you've reset my Do I Give Off Cop Vibes meter to zero for the time being

Why has everyone been dunking on an old picture of Zuckerberg. Go outside.

Medbed thing feels like a lib-triggering attempt that only lands if you're fifteen levels deep into MAGA lore and is indistinguishable from dementia to anyone who isn't. Probably going to be a lot more of that coming down the pike.

Fuck it, becoming an Iraqi dinar revaluation guy now just in case

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

Every song should have a spooky theremin part

Growing to appreciate both country music and Laurel Canyon soft rock much more in my 40s is beginning to feel like I'm skirting the edge of their natural convergence: Admitting The Eagles Were Good

Gonna write a Charles Bukowski poem. I call it "los angeles winter." whiskey, good women bad but maybe it's the other way around

Didn't know Kaleb well beyond occasional chats about Townes Van Zandt and California esoterica but I read so much of his work that it sure feels like I did. One of the greats, a devastating loss.

“You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer.”

Kaleb Horton:

Listening to Leo talk about OBAA on a podcast and he busts out the old "extremism on both sides" canard so you know the digs over him being buddies with Bezos got to him

the messages these shooters are writing on their bullets are getting more and more controversial

Having to sit through boring GDPR training videos because our parent company is based in Sweden. Just another day in Joe Biden's America.

Making the Marge Simpson grumbling noise

Ok but it would be kind of funny in a Ben Shapiro Is a Failed Screenwriter way if Charlie became racist because he got dunked on one too many times

All my friends rudely seeing Silkworm this week even though I couldn't make it

Yeah, ok. Masterpiece. Jesus christ. Haven't been pinned to the wall like that since Uncut Gems.

LFG

Feels noteworthy that there are a lot of prominent, outspoken Zionists in Hollywood and yet a couple of sitcom actresses everyone hates are two of the biggest names attached to this

It's good to see that Zach Woods has only become more powerful and based with time.

I would like the child sacrificed to stop, either by we stop doing them, or we acquire an orb with some kind of enchantment, I don't want to be too prescriptive about it, but an orb or other artifact with magical properties that causes them to stop.

Do people really wonder why every mass shooter is ideologically incoherent? Just look at how confidently stupid the "intelligent discourse" is in this country

There's this notion that elected Dems being so bad that they trigger an electoral revolt would naturally open the door to lefty challengers when it's much more likely to produce a wave of Fettermans

Not getting big Projecting Strength vibes out of turning the escalator thing into a multi-day story

Got through my mom's birthday phone call without her bringing up politics