it just occurred to me that i haven't seen an adult use a tablet in years outside of a few people who use them for sheet music. i'm wondering if this is just my experience or if people in general don't find them as useful anymore

one of the words that gets tossed around the most without reflection and with the assumption that we all mean the same thing is "freedom." i try to, at least mentally, maintain a distinction between liberty and freedom. liberty being the ability to freely put into action the notions of the will

i'm nearing the end of Reaper's Gale (Malazan book 7). This morning it made me cry and this evening it made me rage. fuggin great book

North Shore. Warfield Street. Caller is doing work on behalf of People's Gas and they were doing some digging work. They dug up some suspicious looking bones and wanted to let the authorities check it out.

this happens in Orthodoxy, too. people come looking for "traditional" beliefs only to learn that both Tradition proper and the traditions aren't rooted in mid-1900s USA but are much deeper and vital than culture wars. their preconceptions shatter against the reality then they change or move on.

so glad i work from home now

sometimes i see the things Catholics to then am glad that the EOC isn't better known in the US. some of the water blessings on Theophany really get interesting beyond the service itself.

i've been tooling around this auction site looking for a few things, mostly for projects or orgs. i noticed that there are a lot of MP3 players out there again. if i could snag one for a couple bucks then i'd just have to find my old HD with my music on it. or find my box of CDs and rip them

oh shit oh fuck something is wrong everyone it's been almost a full day since September ended and Green Day hasn't woken up yet shit oh god I'm not sure what to do, and don't you dare suggest calling 911 ok if we do that we're all going to jail

i keep seeing people toss around words like "virtue." i really don't know how people expect a bunch of greedy nihilists to act with anything but base self interest in mind.

i keep thinking that i'll try to win this run of ONI but every time i log in to get rockets going there are a million small problems that distract me. that's the game, sure. the bigger issue it that it's taken so long that i'm running out of resources for power except ones that too much heat

there's a regional company that auctions off returns from other companies. $0 start, no reserve. i once accidentally bought 15 digital cameras after doing a min bid on each and thinking i'd get one or two. i'm super close to doing the same with 60 kickballs but trying to get as many as possible.

maybe i just haven't been to a show recently. i wonder who's playing this week

i've typed and deleted a lot of posts tonight. i don't really know how to say what's in my brain. i guess i need to journal it but i'm not really sure where my journal is right now. it's days like this that i miss my dad. even if he didn't get it, i could bounce words off him without judgment.

PSA: For those following our schedule, Monday distribution at Unity Recovery in the Southside will be starting at 6:30 going forward. Just a little more accessible to those who bring food and supplies, but no other change for the community we serve! Stay safe out there! 🏴🖤🏴🖤

i mean, it's not a waffle house

i stg i'm going to quit my job, use my last paycheck to fly to some random city, and sit under a bridge until i die of exposure

i am bored with everything but not tired enough to sleep. spent all day feeling like shit. living is such a bother

i picked up megabonk rather reluctantly because i was afraid it was a slightly louder dwarven realms. people i respected recommended it tho and it's cheap so i bought it. i'm enjoying it. it's a nice change of pace

So much fun to play with Seckou Keita and Francesco Turrisi. You can learn the banjo tab and history of this song, plus many more in my new book “Go Back and Fetch It Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo."

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

i definitely don't live in banksville any more. nope. no sir

you should be able to take off work because your book is getting to the good part

and bought this one just now so i could close the tab. shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...

i found used copies of the last three malazan books today. pretty stoked

man i wish I could have seen Utah Phillips play. sadly i was too much of a dork to like labor music back when he was alive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBKv...

There are people that I met during my non-reading years. They are inevitably surprised at how quickly I can read now that it's part of my life again. The only thing that's slowed me down this year, wrt flat # of books read, is that these Malazan books are each ~ 1200 pages long.

Happy Friday, friends.

"i'd smash every machine if i didn't have one" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ0M...

i went ahead and bought megabonk. i had a lot of fun with dwarven realms so this seems like a good time

i had what i thought was a billion set of ukulele and guitar strings. now i'm out and i have to go to the dumb store

this version of Fanin Street cuts me to the quick every damn time www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBqD...

i can tell when i've missed my meds bc there are some songs i can't get through without blubbering.

probably picking up this little number from Working Class History soon shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

I know that Solidarity Forever often gets the spotlight. It's a great song and the tune probably strikes even deeply buried protestant religious sentiment. but We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years deserves a lot more attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWZV...

people are going nuts this summer

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

*reads the news* man, i need a bump *snorts a line of lexapro*

ok so i know a lot of white US Christians. most of them aren't evangelicals but even the evangelicals i know hadn't heard of this most recent rapture prediction. my guess is that it's because the prediction wasn't made by a white USian

every now and then i'll see pictures of someone's house or desk and they say it's messy but mine wasn't as clean as theirs from the first day. mine would make them weep, i suppose

the post is a banger and the comic nailed it

My friend reminded me of this article today. Published in 2011 originally, the foresight was remarkable. share.google/jRZHONpoFNoW...

Here's the thing I'm wondering about. How many times can I make rapture jokes at work before I get in trouble?

So there's a new rapture prediction for this week. It's a good time to remind everyone that the rapture and dispensational eschatology is inconsistent with the vast majority of Xian belief and was invented only a couple centuries ago. In the US. It will be fun to watch the aftermath as usual.

Wow, that marks ten years of me looking at the icon of this game on my desktop and saying I'll get to it eventually

and now i have pat stuck in my head again. :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9s2...

St Basil was super based.

in Orthodox Xianity, one can see the Jewish influence in the structure of our worship, etc, but we are forbidden from participating in explicitly Jewish rituals just like any other religion. this shows the differences well. i'd frame the Xian new covenant differently but that's my only disagreement.

this might make my top 5 all time songs. i think about it nearly every day. folk punk is the best punk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q27j...