To all who celebrate

Anyway, it's Rex Manning day.

Gee, after the Gaslighter-in-Chief called off the dogs, the markets had a big bounce this morning. Nothing to see here, I'm sure.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Buying gear and making music like there’s no tomorrow, because what the bell, there’s probably no tomorrow

Been doing this “one guy in a room” version of a job for 15 years, today. Unreal.

Four expensive frames from a walk near the house, late winter 2026. Fuji GW690 / Kentmere 100

The president's first post since an F-16 was shot down over Iran with one American still missing.

One of TN's pet national embarrassments has now publicly questioned if we went to the moon

When you throw in the towel after a campaign loss or failure, you lose momentum for your cause. Remember, you're never building your own thing. You're building a means for others to move forward. You're part of things, not the culmination of them.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

My annual Big Ears report is live artsknoxville.com/index.php/20...

Super proud to live in an IMBA Trail Town. This is a still-evolving result of about 20 years of incredible community-building (and trail-building by said community): www.imba.com/trail-towns

have a sincerely decent day. may you be blessed with clear and trustable communication in all your interpersonal endeavors

Excellent Big Ears recap from Scott. (One of my Big Ears highlights is getting to hang out with Scott sometimes.)

Four days of little sleep, forgetting meals, and an abundance of remarkable musical performances, here's my report on taking in as much as I could at the 2026 Big Ears Festival. reclinernotes.com/2026/03/31/2...

Faceb**k’s “people you may know” feature keeps siggesting I befriend some guy named “Mark Hollis” and it throws me for a loop every time

Every time I see parents with little kids doing the festival I want to stop and hug them and encourage them to keep parenting the way they are parenting because my goodness this is just the best way to do life.

At that point in big ears weekend when I desperately need to make new music and play it on a stage with/for people. Dammit

Last night, a most unexpected, meaningful and wonderful meeting with a musician whom i admire greatly. Might end up being the biggest bit of Big Ears Magic yet.

It’s big ball chunky time

For those of you going to Big Ears, here's my preview once again. Come find me! I'm the tall, curly-haired guy trying not to block anyone's sightline and answers to the name of "Scott" (also "Hey, you Recliner Notes"). reclinernotes.com/2026/03/08/2...

My usual tinnitus (already not great!) has become a raging scream ever since I was sick for two weeks with allergy crud. This might fully break me

I’m at ICE HQ

The internet memory machine tells me this happened 9 years ago, somehow. Just me and Naomi, Nursey Bear, and @robynhitchcock.bsky.social after a little walk across town. A wholly unexpected, impossible highlight in a beautiful weekend amidst an otherwise difficult patch of Life.

40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart https://theonion.com/40-year-old-not-active-enough-to-realize-body-falling-a-1847782934/

Cool, three seasons in two days (it was sunny and 75 yesterday)

fighting the institutional adoption of ai is slow and difficult. but as individuals, we can still largely opt out, at least from direct use. i sincerely believe that those who do so will find solidarity in creativity, imagination, and humanity. in intelligence.

This, though, is… not ideal

Home, on a quiet Sunday morning, after being not home for several days. All pictured here are happy.

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

Mega important stuff tonight (til N crashed out and we had to bail early). RATBOYS FOREVER

On this Bandcamp Friday you can pre-order one of these Amen, Pioneer CDs, put together lovingly by @gmiddleb.bsky.social. Album out 04.03.26 furtrader.bandcamp.com/album/amen-p...

SPIN let me put @ratboysband.bsky.social on the cover, where they belong. www.spin.com/featured/the...

A really lovely @pedrothelion.bsky.social duo set tonight at the beautiful Sunday Studios here in Knoxville. So thankful for @undertowmusic.bsky.social for helping to make these soul-filling shows possible.

U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.

When your city has single digit temps one week, and low-70s the next, your city becomes Pothole City. I think this one shook my brain loose. Can't wait to go to battle with TDOT for the cost of 2 tires, a rim and an alignment…

Anyone out there who also has three large dogs, but who has cracked the code to your house not smelling like six large dogs? Please share any wisdom you have. I can’t take it anymore

“In A Silent Way” by Miles Davis was recorded 57 years ago today. PERFECTION

Failure have announced the new album 'Location Lost,’ which features Hayley Williams on a track. Hear the single "The Air's On Fire"…

My favorite.

Roses are red Vice is inherent

Very sad to hear of the passing of the songwriter Timothy Bailey. I love this song of his: timothybaileyandthehumans.bandcamp.com/track/elling...

Surprise, I finished a music thing. A small set of gradually moving constructions of loops and performances on guitar and synthesizer.

If reading these letters doesn’t fill you with a deep and urgent need to burn these concentration camps to the ground after releasing their prisoners, you would’ve been on the wrong side in WWII.

IDGAF about Super Bowl ads (or beer, especially not beer) but the eagle in the Budweiser ad is a bird I know personally (weird thing to say, yes) and that’s pretty damn cool. Lincoln lives at the American Eagle Foundation, where my wife is an educator, and he’s buzzed my head on a flyby before.

"LMFAO" — Ashlee Simpson

I love the Olympics as much as I detest nationalism