uncool2pillow

This is a band that I haven't listened to nearly enough.

Weird Al with my 12 year old son.

Finally started Breaking Bad. About 5-6 episodes in. About FUCKING time!

Lead-off homer for the Cubs and someone's getting wet. https://twitter.com/Michael_Cerami/status/979396403024756736

538 weighs in https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-mlb-predictions/

And an ugly thing in nearly every other way.

Very cool!

Many rural Iowans -- and throughout the country -- will come to regret their vote for Trump with agricultural products are slapped with Chinese tariffs.

Having recently listened to the Slow Burn podcast about Watergate has given me a bit of historical context around that and some new lenses to view our current situation. My previous view of Watergate is that Republicans like Howard Baker were unbiased and would let the truth lead them where it would throughout most of the Watergate crisis. This podcast made it clear that most Republicans were holding water for Nixon until the tapes were released. Hopefully, if Mueller or someone else finds a smoking gun (in my mind, there's been something of a smoking armory, if not on collusion on massive con

Pix?

Thanks for the tip, NOJ!

The cash registers at my local Quik Trip were playing the opening electronic sounds from Art of Almost.

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Also, I recently learned that Don Was is now president of Blue Note. He was on Maron recently.

Whoa!

Today (just now) I discovered this site is no longer blocked at work.

Really enjoying this

Bob Mould especially on Eight Miles High and 2 or 3 songs on Black Sheets of Rain.

Yeah, fuck Billy Corgan for going on InfoWars.

A good book. The real St. Patrick deserved his story to be told beyond the silly myths.

School was canceled today due to an ice storm. I took my kids and a couple of friends to see Black Panther and it exceeded my very high expectations. I also finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. A good day, I'd say.

The new Brandi Carlile is great.

Saw Hiatt open up for the Old 97's last fall. She put on a great show. I hope you make it!

We (my wife, sixth graders and me) marched last year. We sat it out yesterday, but we will be very motivated come fall to work and vote for Democratic candidates at every level. I say this as someone who, up until Trump won the nomination, was a registered Republican. I have watched the GOP in Iowa and in the nation push the most radical agenda of my lifetime. I have some conservative tendencies, but this current incarnation of the GOP is beyond the pale.