Amy McNally

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

Next one of mine is to open something luxurious.

It doesn't actually have to be expensive.

You ever open, flatten, and fold a candy wrapper?

Ahhhhh.

It has side effects of me calling things "sleeecy-slicey kneeefy-knifies" and "peeefypooooofy soufflés" and feeling okay about dropping things in the kitchen.

Next one is from me.

I lose the spoon that lets me follow long plots when I'm grieving.

But on youtube there are compilations of swedish chef sketches.

It's like shower beer. Our mom died, the pizza came, she said she'd have hers in the shower.

"What?"

"I keep it out of the spray, what? I am crying in the shower, I don't have time for plates and napkins."

Legit.

Okay! It's time for Unconventional Tips For surviving grief.

Any grief.

Join in with your own! Tip or grief.

First one is from my sister.

It's shower pizza.

The reality is, we cannot wait until trauma ceases or we're unequivocally safe in order to develop tools & work our recovery. We'll be waiting forever. We have to develop tools & strategy & start working now, even if & when the sh*t is still happening. I don't believe in waiting.

I know I'm not alone.

I know buying random stuff won't help.

I know I may never see any personal response to all my letters.

I know if I don't rest I won't be able to fight.

I know I need to fight in order to feel like I can rest.

Okay!

*cracks knuckles*

Time for a big day of staring at my computer screen in frozen dread and waiting for things to get Less Awful Somehow!

I keep trying to do things to help. I keep trying to do things to rest.

None of those things feel like they're working.

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I keep marchin' towards March: www.patreon.com/posts/road-t... #music #physicaltherapy #anemia #indiemusic #celticmusic #fiddle #fiddling #fiddler

I gotta write. But how write when doomscroll never stop

In less than an hour, Jack o'the Dust live at @mbcbrews.bsky.social's Madison Taproom on East Washington Avenue! Stringed instruments! Pleasant sounds! Beverages! All the typical things live human music events have. You will remain alive and totally uncooked. Singing along is very normal.

Who's Bo, why are we warming them?

(It's probably NOT teetering on my arm so much as other things, like the idea of the value of live music and art as community, but the arm thing is the bit I worry about and work on a lot lately)

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

On a day like today, with my career teetering on the resilience of my bowarm and 2 fresh ER bills coming my way and a nationwide strike tomorrow what with folks getting killed in the streets a state over, I ask myself a question:

Do I have 2 minutes + 24 seconds? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Pull your hands away from your electronics.

Put one hand on your chest and one hand on your head, close your eyes, and breathe slowly.

Your heart and lungs and brain are here for you, under your hands. They're working for you, pulling oxygen and pushing blood, doing their best every second.

In case you missed it, there's still plenty of necks to go around.

www.facebook.com/events/11789...

TONIGHT, at the @mbcbrews.bsky.social taproom! My band Jack o'the Dust! 7pm!

Come buy me a beer!

Then drink it for me, too!

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Bumps Along The Road To St. Patrick's Season: www.patreon.com/posts/149192...

Thursday! www.facebook.com/events/11789... Jack o'the Dust at Minocqua Brewing Company taproom!

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What hurts me the most about this is NOT that the bills cost money. It's that I cannot devote time and attention to my most favorite thing: my work. The thing I would like the most is if y'all could talk to other folks about my work, so that my music does not wither when it has to be put on hold.

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My 2025 budget says I spent >2X as much last year on bills than 2024 due to medical problems, and last Friday, a New Related Problem began to surface. Today, I ask doctors about it!

My health impacts my ability to work.

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Help? #music #fiddle #celtic #indie #support

You telling me a Snicker doodled this?

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What's that? A FRESHLY-COMPOSED FIDDLE TUNE?!

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Disney Captain Hook

I am gonna make it through this year if it kills Smee

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What's that? A FRESHLY-COMPOSED FIDDLE TUNE?!

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Dear clothing stores, I don't know who does y'all's categorization, but:

Jumpsuits. Are not. Dresses.

When I click on "Dresses," I don't want a jumpsuit. I don't want a romper. I don't want a flight suit. I don't want a onesie.

I WANT AN UNBIFURCATED GARMENT.

Signed, fat girl w/ short legs.

Drunk tank

It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the