William Augustus

An iPad with a digital copy of The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty sits on a table next to a cup of coffee.

I probably shouldn’t be surprised by how good this book is, but I’m truly stunned. Excellently written and, to my own astonishment, a beautiful piece of literature. This might take the place of my favorite book of all time.
📖 The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Oh snap!! Listening now!

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

How many more? 😳

(📸 by @raydipietro.bsky.social )

Indiana Jones punching a Nazi

anyway

1 day apart.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20
“All Is Not Lost” The Brilliance
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

A sermon worth hearing

YES 🔥

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 19
“Yield” Pearl Jam
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“For the kids who wake up hungry in those dark places every day, who’ve lost their families to poverty and pain pills, whose caseworkers keep losing their files, who feel invisible, or wish they were: this book is for you.”
-Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead is a masterpiece.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18
Dizzy Up the Girl by The Goo Goo Dolls
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#vinyl

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17
Caedmon’s Call
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#vinyl

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16
Third Eye Blind
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#vinyl

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
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#vinyl

Sorkin nailed it!

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14
Audioslave
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#vinyl

A frozen swimming pool surrounded by snow with a sign chained to the deep end ladder saying “swimming pool closed”

Ahh man. The swimming pool is closed.

“Meaningless! Meaningless!
Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Sometimes, the Bible just nails it.

"He is guilty; he has been found guilty by a jury of his peers. He will not be subject to a penalty because he has been elected president of the United States"

That is something but it isn't justice.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13
“Jesus Freak” by DC Talk
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The book “JRR Jokien Essays: Vol 1” sits on a table with other books, a laptop, glasses, and an ink pen.

After finishing Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf, I read the essay by @www.jrrjokien.com about Leaf by Niggle and it was excellent! The essay really opened up the short story and gave a lot of valuable context.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12
“Strict Joy” by The Swell Season
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#vinyl

What can men do against such reckless hate?

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
“Jagged Little Pill” by Alanis Morissette
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#vinyl

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
“Mercury & Lighting” by John Mark McMillan
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#vinyl

A Hopefully Awesome camping mug filled with coffee sits on a bookshelf full of books by JRR Tolkien. A book stands open behind the coffee mug turned to a chapter with the heading “On Fairy Stories”

Tolkien and coffee are bringing warmth to my soul on this cold and bitter Monday.

The Jan 6th attack on the Capitol was nothing short of terror and treason.

I want this shirt!