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Agonizing over a purchase
Being an adult can be hard, but it does lead to deliberate decisions. Not necessarily good decisions, but they will be deliberate damn it!
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Rifftrax: My new addiction
Cheese that makes Velveeta seem good. Seriously, I suspect that even Netflix passed on these gems.
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Music: John Lee Hooker, a Blues Icon
A true touchstone of the genre, John Lee Hooker was a bluesman through and through
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Odds and Sods
A cornucopia of topics, and no real closure. I am getting old. I am as horrified by the debate as anyone. I might have bested my prior record for footnotes. It's been a complicated week.
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Music: Ellen Plays Bass
She nails one of my faves, and is worthy of this post.
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It's not good.
The smart money will pivot to Trump, and the soft "undecided" cohort will as well.
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Bad Dates
We all have had them, this is one that sticks out in my mind. Writing about it is better than watching the debate.
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What the candy-apple fuck: Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters
I truly got nothin' on this
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Music: We Want MOORE!
A sleeper album, delivers to us one of the most soulful tunes, played by one of the all-time greatest guitar slingers in the world.
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Migrant Fights? For reals?
Trump goes off script (or did he) and really loses the plot. Alas, the trained barker seals of his Evangelical base further diminish their ethics, and sell their souls to the tangerine hippo
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Music: Friday Night in San Francisco
Three greats, trying to out-do each other, left us with some great recordings. I just wish that HD video existed in 1980...
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MAGA is not well on Substack
A rabbit hole I wish mightily that I didn't dive into. Conspiracists and MAGA have huge overlapping Venn diagram, and they seem to believe that the world is against them when their followers flee