Christopher L. Keller

Player IIs are nice. Enjoy the neck and fingerboard on that.

The friendship our family has formed with the baby roadrunner that frequents our yard in the morning has reached the stage where my wife and kids will pick up dead cockroaches and crickets with a dustpan and feed the little bird...

It's about as cute as you can imagine.

Nothing humble about it. This is a powerful song — one that brings the tears the moment those first notes hit.

Nearly went with this one — was second on my ranked choices — but I dunno if I'm ready to revisit these feelings...

I hope someone gives it its due.

This one was way up there on my wishlist… Strong memories.

Summer of 1998. Back of an accord on Highway 10, leaving Trackside Bar on a weekday afternoon. The wind was rippling through your hair. Does that moment and all that came after ever cross your mind?

No one goes into journalism because they want to extract text from PDFs... Yet here we are.

Was never into Sabbath and Bark at the Moon scared the shit out of me as a kid, but there’s no disputing the mark Ozzy made on rock-and-roll and the sound he and Tony Iommi ushered into our collective consciousness - and dare I say - it occupied our brain.

Have to say, you picked a "rich text" for inspiration for an essay...

Do I still have the cassette tapes? I do.

Just missing a pit stop at 6 & Ten, a 20oz bottle of mountain dew and a map of the backroads (cause I think I forgot how to get from Daleyville to Verona on nothing but country roads)

Oh hey @mlfaliveno.bsky.social‬! You're in the tourney too, which makes two of us from the same small Wisco town... where sad 90s songs reigned supreme.

Great pick.

Am thankful you went with it cause I don’t know if I’d have been able to resist the temptation and stay away from the ballad of my unrequited high school love…

Wow!

It’s my lucky number too!!!

If there’s something that is deep in my DNA it’s sad 90s songs.

Now, choices must be made.

Yeah dude…

This line in here hits hard, no matter your opinion on Stephen Jenkins…

“The plans I make still have you in them,
Then you come swimming into view”

3 credit 300-level course? Don't mind if I do.

Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.

The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to phones in the area.

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Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.

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Pretty sure I just suggested enough songs for about four unrequited love mixtapes I would have made in high school for the longlist...

@ryanpitts.bsky.social … I hope you are awesome. Thought of you today as I watched a man parked two spots from the door of the grocery store look around for the cart corral and proceed to walk three times as far to shove it haphazardly against other carts instead of just walking it back to the store

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...

And the latest from @rjfoley.bsky.social & me...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map in the years before the July 4 floods, a review by The Associated Press found.

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It’s the "inspired by" Mike Campbell solo of the day.

4 questions that are still unanswered about Texas' deadly floods Key questions remain unanswered about the actions Texas officials took both before and during the catastrophic July Fourth holiday floods remain unanswered.

Today helped take a look at questions that are still unanswered about Texas’ deadly floods...

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YouTube video by Evident Media Masked, Armed, Forceful: Finding Patterns in California Immigration Raids

Wow... Just...

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A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn't find $1M for flood warning system near camps Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and o...

And contributed reporting and mining of meeting minutes to this piece today: apnews.com/article/texa...

Flash flooding that killed 3 leaves New Mexico village heartbroken, anxious as cleanup begins Crews are working to clear twisted metal, broken trees and muddy debris from streets and homes a day after monsoon rains triggered a deadly flash flood in southern New Mexico.

And interviewed the NWS here: apnews.com/article/flas...

Historic rainfall leads to deadly flooding in New Mexico: a timeline of emergency alerts The summer rainy season in New Mexico usually brings daily alerts about the potential for flooding around the arid state.

Meanwhile, today I reviewed a database of the National Weather Service’s emergency alerts to outline the warnings that preceded Tuesday's deadly flooding in New Mexico...

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Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s disaster plan 2 days before deadly flood, records show Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s emergency plan just two days before devastating floods killed over 27 people, mostly children, at the Texas summer camp.

More today...

Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.

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It’s the Mike Campbell lick of the day.

To help get this piece across the wire this evening, I contributed reporting and wrote code to download 25 years' worth of meeting minutes and search them for terms such as "flood alerts," "warning systems," and "sirens."

Texas county deflects mounting questions over actions before deadly flood In the days after the devastating flood that killed dozens in Central Texas, local officials have deflected direct questions about preparations and warnings in advance of the storm that struck July Fo...

Kerr County commissioners considered several years ago a proposal for a flood warning system similar to sirens used for tornadoes in other parts of the country ... After missing out on a FEMA grant, the idea was shelved because of the cost.

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Just figured out the LA Woman lick (buh buh buh da buh bump duh bah de dah) is basically the pentatonic box on an A chord barred across the fifth fret.

The hair though too… and his game winner against Purdue and Jaden Ivey.