Locke Peterseim

YouTube video by The Kinks The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Official Audio)

IYKYK today
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Saw Ghost for the first time last night, and it was AMAZING, so I say this with great love for both, they're kinda the ABBA of goth metal.

New "Pina Colada Song" lyrics drop

When I die, if you listen closely, you'll hear a faint squeak from inside the casket, "That's not what POV means..."

“OMG! WTF?! Holy Sh...!!!” is Not a Plan Shock and outrage are justified—and in a twisted way can feel good. But we must move past them to stop Trump and Musk.

I have a bad habit of reading comment sections, and what I see these days, especially in Substack, is a lot of angry yelling and flailing.

Instead of ineffectual venting, let’s put that fire to work in the forge.

karintamerius.substack.com/p/omg-wtf-ho...

Five Things Smart Politics Won’t Ask You to Do Mapping out the negative spaces of our positive work

My latest Smart Politics piece addresses some of the concerns and questions folks raise about having conversations with Trump voters:

open.substack.com/pub/karintam...

Why This is the Way Smart Politics asks us to do the one thing most of us avoid: Talk with Trump supporters.

open.substack.com/pub/karintam...

I work with Dr. Karin Tamerius bsky.app/profile/kari... on the Smart Politics project, teaching progressives to have more effective and productive conversations with folks on the right.

Here's why I believe in this work:

open.substack.com/pub/karintam...

Re-reading Gormenghast, and honestly, Trump, Musk, Zuck, and Putin are Peake villain names.

(Says the guy named after USMC rifle action, lol.)

Time spent making a list of all the books I want to read next "immediately": 1 hour

Time spent reading the half dozen books I'm currently in the middle of: 15 minutes

The four weeks between Spotify Wrap Day and New Year's Day is liminal song space. Anything you listen to doesn't count for either 2024 or 2025, so get at it.

Roll Manilow.

"My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over."

Full confession, I may have cursed 2024 by rereading Blood Meridian last Christmas...
So today I'm rereading Moore and Campbell's From Hell... What could possibly go wrong?

Today would have been Short's 100th birthday.

Happy birthday, Dad--and niece Charlotte who shares his birthday and turns 11 today!

So thankful for everything he taught us, all the Short-isms we still say, and all the stories we still tell and laugh about.

Better have a little bourbon tonight.

Well when it comes to my old (briefly) ESPNPage2 pagemates, it's him or we ressurect HST.

Come to think of it, "Ressurecting HST" is a "one last mission to save the country" movie plot I could get behind...

Forgive me, but this is what I first saw...

fun fact: when ABC let Miller go, my terrific ESPN.Com editors pitched an Annotated John Madden spinoff (which would have been a hoot as a one off), and ABC was, "um yeah, nope, not doing anything to upset the new golden goose" heheh

This feels like the opening of the movie where the young govt agent seeks out the grizzled old guy with PTSD living in isolation in a cabin on a mountaintop and says, "we need you to come back for one more mission" and the hermit says, "I ain't like that anymore" lol

YouTube video by iosonofederico Lemmy Kilmister & Hawkwind Silver Machine 1972 Live

Trying a new form of Being Present: When a song gets stuck in my head, face it straight on, embrace and envelop it.

Tonight's:

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Okay, we're all back here now? Right right... Lemme dust things off a bit and find the groove...

You need to get Mariana over here, she has the best worst Dad puns... And I HATE puns...

www.threads.net/@marianaz057

Not a week goes by I don't listen to this an annoying number of times on repeat. #dwighttwilley

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More Great Moments in Sportscasting, ISU v TCU, color commentary from Petros Papadakis:

"They just keep squirting these runs out."

Over several decades and networks, there remains no more entertaining sports-pop culture nexus than listening to a pained Al Michaels awkwardly read programming promos for SFF shows.

Now I hear there's a train
It's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry
You've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket
And you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket
You don't pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea!

Now I can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just can't see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea!

Now you say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say've got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust but chains
You're scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
But that was the river
This is the sea

Now if you're feelin' weary
If you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea!