the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

My Spotify wrapped thank you video (please stop using Spotify) kept getting rejected for “featuring music” but it didn’t have music. My daughter overheard and said “but it does have music…there’s a plane flying over you that sounds musical.” Eq’d that out, video accepted. My kid rules.

I have assiduously avoided AI-generated songs, but I checked this one out and holy shit. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the last lyrics are “My uncle’s father died in the Pentagon/I was 5, how old were you?”

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Happy Halloween. Here’s my song about a demon. music.apple.com/us/album/the...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

If you didn’t grow up calling someone unrelated to you “Auntie” I don’t think I can trust you or anyone in your family.

There are lots of reasons I’m looking forward to being done with grad school in December, but first in foremost it’s that I’m never staying up til 1am for non-music related reasons ever again

The headline sounds like something Trump would say two minutes into answering a question about national security.

Thanks, Tears & BJs! (Almost as fun as the time I found Moonshine on a playlist called “Songs to Smash To”)

Absolutely chuffed to be presenting Sunday’s Fervor Coulee’s Rootsicana & Bluegrass cjsr.com 88.5 in #YEG. Two hours of roots & bluegrass including new music @groveranderson.com @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social Larry Sparks & deep cuts incl. advancing RiverCity Bluegrass Fest— I hope you can tune in!

“It’s not a purity test. It’s: ‘We want credible messengers.’” Yes!!

Sending support and safety and strength to everyone taking to the streets today

Can’t wait til I read this tweet about AI

I’m not much for writing political songs. I often end up feeling like they’re pale imitations of songwriters I admire. But as I scrolled and stewed, silence became a greater offense than imperfection.

“On the Record” is out now • music.apple.com/us/album/on-... • open.spotify.com/track/1JE9Qi...

Tom McClintock managed to let his district take the third-biggest loss of all republican districts. He even manages to lose when he’s winning. Of course, he doesn’t even live in the district he represents, so no sweat off his back! Good lord we need to vote this chump out of office.

The streets* are buzzing at the possibility that Donald might debut a new Grover song Thursday on this show. *”streets” = my living room

I wouldn’t have even called myself a D’Angelo fan, but my cousin invited me to the Black Messiah tour in Oakland and I am still reasonably certain it was the best concert I’ll go to in my life.

I’ve got a song coming out this week of a political nature, and “if you’re going to do it, don’t you dare do the Jesse Welles thing” was one of my guiding principles

I have a new single about, ya know, “things” coming out in a week, and its relevancy is the least of my concerns, but also it’s never a great feeling to have new verses to a distributed song come to you every time you open a the web browser.

I tell ya, being on the commercial mailing list of the festival you’ve been submitting your band to for a long time can lead to some disappointing checking of notifications.

Who could forget those Grover Anderson classics “Sick Jimmy”, “Willie’s Song”, and “The Devil Ain’t Got No Truck”?

“Sticker” at Millpond Music Festival 2025 (Workshop Stage) youtu.be/pckKtY6sxeg

Reading an essay by Mary Wollenstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley) and came across the phrase “a swarm of ephemeron triflers” and I am in awe.

Wrote a song tonight. It’s been a minute since I made time to force myself to finish an idea/draft, which was a shitty thing to do to myself. It probably sucks and I’ll probably never play it out, but that’s not really the point. Yay, me 🥳

Millpond was somethin special www.instagram.com/reel/DPJ1nDW...

we have fun youtu.be/tvoie7qyYVc?...

Good times at Millpond Music Festival

My favorite movie that I watched for my film noir class this summer was Out of the Past, so when the route to the festival we played this weekend took us through Bridgeport we had to make a stop in honor of Jeff. (Thanks to my professor @blbalthaser.bsky.social!)

Welles’ videos have made me smile plenty of times, but yeah. Hyden captures why I wouldn’t call myself a fan. If the goal is anything more than engendering a smile, I don’t think he’s achieving it.

Festival Mode Engage! We’re off to play two sets at Millpond Music Festival in Bishop, CA. Our last fest of the year and we’re really hoping it leads into a big festival season in 2026. In sadder news……I put a case on my replacement phone 😢 end of an era

Great newsletter, AND a great strained pun headline for @thepressbox.bsky.social

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

There’s a Katie Pruitt song called “Worst Case Scenario” and a Madi Diaz song called “Worst Case Scenario” and one of them is much better than the other (even though I adore both artists). I get so disappointed when it’s the other one.

Waking up at 4:30 is a little easier to palate when you see a mountain lion walking down the road

Have any of the known perpetrators of political violence this year completed a four year degree at a university

Say all the perfectly valid things about Train, but hot damn if their concerts aren’t worth every freaking penny. Those dudes put on a heck of a show.

Realizing, as my daughters turn on the new Snow White movie for the fourth time this week, that it was really freaking weird how many grown men told me—in print and on podcasts and in person—that it is a bad movie.

This William F. Buckley? That’s who they’re putting on the stamp?

i know there are a lot of valid criticisms of the NYT, but the bluesky replies underneath recipes that they post are high comedy.

A huge shoutout to my daughter, whose only comment upon being shown a video of her singing with my band and a pretty major up-and-coming bluegrass/punk band (Water Tower) at a music festival was “I wish they’d turned my mic up louder.”

Listening to Pd Save America discuss the gutting of the CDC as I prepare my house (and then my mom’s) for evacuation from a wildfire in my town (we’re fine for now) is some real dystopian shit.

Someone writing “Performance Opportunity” as the subject of the email offering me a 3 hour dinner gig…the only way I’d say “No” faster would be if they included the word “exposure” somewhere in the message.

Just got home from a high school football game and logged on and…looks like a lot’s happening? Or not happening, but possibly happening? Let’s start scrolling down

So today, in the middle of a grammar lesson, I got an ESPN notification on my watch that Taylor & Travis were engaged. But since all the kids had their phones in phone jail at the back of the class, I was the only one who knew. And I got to be the one to tell all of them. The power was exhilarating.

being a rural high school english teacher is fun because i had tomorrow’s agenda written on the board but then i erased it because tomorrow we’re learning about (grammatical) pronouns and tonight is Back to School Night and having “Pronouns” on the board seems like a real bad idea

On this Saturday I find myself watching the pilot of “The Hunting Wives” and it’s horrible but I also can’t stop watching

excited to stop by the FAR West booth before our set tonight

Say Nothing is a phenomenal television show