When my wife and I first bought our house here in Greensboro, if you walked 5 minutes and crossed the train tracks into another neighborhood, you were in the same congressional district as her parents who are an hour+ drive away from us.

This saddens me so much, y'all. K&W Cafeteria closing permanently after being in business since 1937 | wfmynews2.com share.google/pWhaVhTvdqgY...

Panthers!

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Fellow tall friend speaks my mind.

Drive-by Truckers - "Where the Devil Don't Stay" Travis - "Writing to Reach You" Rickie Lee Jones - "We Belong Together" Lucinda Williams - "Right in Time" The Replacements - "Talent Show"

Yes! Daddy gets the Switch tonight, kids.

I want to talk about the Scouts for a minute because I spent a large number of years in my youth in either Cub or, what was then, the Boy Scouts.

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Some J's Indie/Rock Mayhem on WQFS show updates - only two more shows between now and the end of the year! Thursday, November 27th - 8 PM EDT - Final new music/regular show of the year Thursday, December 18th - 6 PM - 10 PM EDT - 4 Hours of the Best of 2025 - albums and singles

I wrote some words about a tremendous album that really just keeps getting better, even 30 years on.

If you can't be embarrassed with Trump, where can you be?

One more night to get it half right.

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

Seeing GWAR, Helmet, and Dwarves on a school night. This is the best of ideas; this is the worst of ideas.

Health insurance doubling, house insurance going up ~33%.

Been revisiting and rethinking about E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" a lot recently. I was blown away when I first read it, mostly because it's not what I expected from a Forster short story. But also by how wildly prescient it feels today.

I just got the most terrifying email. I finished one place out of promotion in Learned League last season, but I guess they needed the numbers because I got promoted to A Rundle. Pray for Mojo.

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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

This is an unpopular opinion that is really accurate. It's a cart and horse thing. You need accessibility via better pay (the horse) to encourage more diversity in representation (the cart). Part of why people hate this idea so much is because the current yahoos really don't deserve the money.

Happy FSTL day to all who celebrate

Gonna be on late tonight covering for Big Jim's Housequake! 10 PM EST on @wqfs.bsky.social 90.9 FM www.wqfs.org

Bought a used copy online of the Harry Houdini biography I read as a kid that I always loved, and the exact thing I hoped for is happening: my daughter is devouring it.

Ram On LA: A Los Angeles Music Sampler (2009 Redux) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/31/r... Originally released in 2009, the AD-curated Ram On LA compilation brought together a dozen Los Angeles artists paying homage to Paul & Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece Ram. Re-upped!

Revisited TEASER AND THE FIRE CAT for the first time in a while. Sunday morning was very nice for it.

So, anyone who pre-ordered the Replacements' LET IT BE boxset hear anything about shipping yet? I feel like Rhino regularly ships these out late.

Seeing Gary Numan at the Cats Cradle. Always enjoy seeing him sell this place out.

Wendover Avenue in Greensboro.

Tonight's show was full of 30 year anniversaries, but I think the anniversary that got me most was that it's been 20 years since Silver Jews' TANGLEWOOD NUMBERS came out.

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They hate actually governing.

Noches Latinas in Greensboro are one of the best First Friday events, and if you haven't been to one, you should. It's amazing how they've grown over the year or two they've been happening.

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A farewell to my friend, Kaleb Horton, a great writer who died unexpectedly this past weekend.

This, but also, stop giving the College Board public school money. They make money hand over fist from school systems that pay for every student to the PSAT and AP exams.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Kaleb Horton's music writing was phenomenal, and his passing made me incredibly sad this morning. Holding him in the light and knowing his memory is a blessing for many.

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

L'shanah tova to all who celebrate. May this coming year be a damn sight sweeter than the last.

So, uh, go Cats! Not shocked they got a win against Atlanta, but did not expect it to go down like that. That's the Panthers defense I've been missing for so many seasons. Also, they've scored 49 unanswered points going back to the Arizona game. Wild.

Any streaming service that has THE SIMPSONS would have my money for life, almost no question, and yet, Disney managed to screw that up.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Man, I miss Vic Chesnutt.

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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Memphis is 63% Black, but not one Black person was with Trump today when he signed his presidential memorandum to send the National Guard to the largest Black city in America. The Black mayor of Memphis, the Black mayor of Shelby County, and the Black police chief, were not involved.