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"The struggles are many / Not one of them can be erased / But if we agree that / Nazis should be punched in the face / We'll get along just fine." anhistoricmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pierce...

This is the inside of one of the main train stations in Casablanca, Morocco. People criticizing the U.S. train systemusually like to compare it to Europe. We're not keeping up with Europe! they say. That's true, but in some ways it's the wrong comparison. We're also not keeping up with Morocco.

This Saturday. We don't just split a bill with Lys. We play some of their songs with them and they play some of our songs with us. Gonna be fun.

We did this for an hour at Clifftop. Ro tuned high and I tuned low. Afterward I was like, "huh, maybe we should record this," like an idiot, and Ro looked at me like "duh, that was the whole idea." rosaliecoleman.bandcamp.com/album/hardin...

Good leg placement and proximity is still possible even in larger jams.

Best books I read this year: The Most Secret Memory of Men, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; Human Acts, by Han Kang; The Light Eaters, by Zöe Schlanger; Black Pill, by Elle Reeve. What are yours?

some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes

Plantain chips for seven fishes. Andy Palacio, guide my hand.

My wife's pretty handy.

Demonstrating good leg placement for fiddle jam.

Off to play western NC benefit in Easthampton this afternoon at Marigold Theater.

Name some weird superpower you seem to have. Mine is that, wherever I go, people seem to ask me for directions to where they're going—and usually I can actually give them those directions.

Brooksvale Park trail.

Here's to our first rainstorm of the year that, 20 years ago, would probably have been a snowstorm.

Playing a benefit for western NC reconstruction 12/1.

Nonsense game of Scrabble I played with two friends years ago. Now old enough that one of them has actually become a word.

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