John Moe

Similarly, *I* don’t want to hear that I’m eleven feet tall and play centerfield for the Yankees.

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.

I understand there are many legit concerns as well as assets to Amy Klobuchar. She’ll have critics and supporters. But I always thought eating salad with a fork sounded kind of neat and fun.

Dreamed I was directing a play while starring in another one that was rehearsing and couldn’t manage both schedules plus I was missing family plans. Everyone was mad at me.

Oh well, off to host two podcasts, produce a third, and try to be there for my family.

Dreams. Such a mystery!

When I moved here it was like relocating to a Hold Steady album.

1/28/26

Did the contestants shake hands at the end of Jeopardy today?

No, they did not.

Instead: TRIPLE HUGS.

Honestly the longer ICE stays here the more advantage we gain. They have to be gone by spring. If the bike whackos get a shot at patrol it’s OVER.

“So, Mr. and Mrs. Milosevic, what will you name the baby?”

- “Slobodan.”

“Slo… what?”

- “Slobodan. Slobodan. Slobodan.”

“I mean, there are many names you c—“

- “(in unison) SLOOOOOBOOOODAAAAAANNNN.”

Some of you may remember our foster dog The Professor. Just got an update on how he spends his days:
- Playing in yard with other dog and best friend, barking at deer through a fence
- Cuddling with 4yo watching cartoons
- Chilling with dad playing video games at night
- All around pal

Been thinking about how we’re not okay here in Minnesota and how events and the state of affaires are echoing in our day to day world. A thread.

cw: suicide

Now I’m just waiting for John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band’s song about Saint Paul.

This is worth your time.

I just had a thought, many years after my father's death, about his experiences earlier in life and whether he was and I have been dealing with the same thing.

My next therapy session should be interesting!

How is Mary-Wendy these days?

The biggest signal an American human can ever receive that they are deeply and profoundly fucking up is finding themselves as the bad guy in a Bruce Springsteen song.

So, anyway, in addition to being a friend, John is sometimes a colleague in making audio. I hope this has value for some of you.

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I produce In This Family, a podcast about family and mental health. To kick off our second season, we have a revealing and very moving interview with the host of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, @petersagal.bsky.social.

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I host a show where famous people talk at length about their interests in order to put you to sleep. In this episode, I sometimes get overly excited about Bigfoot and producer @gabemara.bsky.social has to calm me down.
Todd Stashwick? Awesome guy.

There are people to blame for the harm being afflicted on Minnesota.
You aren’t one of them.
Forgive yourself.
Return the email tomorrow.
Vacuum some other time.
And maybe check one more time before backing up.
/end

A person’s natural habit is to blame themselves, especially someone prone to depression or anxiety.
It’s not your fault.
Give yourself slack and patience and care and kindness.
It’s trauma that is still happening and will for a while at least. Then we'll live with it forever.

So all sorts of things that wouldn’t make sense before make plenty of sense now. We fight, we fly, we freeze. We fail to reply to emails and texts. We forget why we walked into a room. We cry at weird times and in weird places. We back our cars into pillars.

Our neighbors are killed for no reason. We’re patrolling the streets when we have busy lives to lead. We’re guarding our kids schools instead of letting our government do it.
Liam Ramos.
Whipple Building.
This is an ongoing traumatic situation and we’re behaving in response to that.

I keep hearing about people here just not functioning like they otherwise would. Productivity, attention span, organization, just keeping one’s shit together, it’s all suffering. And I think it’s a response to the world itself being out of kilter. We can’t function because our world won’t either.

A direct trauma event like Rick’s death (I saw his body in the ER just before he finally passed) is different than the shared community trauma of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities but they are both traumas and I think we are collectively experiencing a trauma response.

Why should - how COULD - anything be normal when I was living in a reality where something so NOT normal had just gone down. It was a different world than before and in this one I was bound to be disoriented. The concrete pillar was a completely logical result of what had occurred.

After that, I tried to forgive myself for things. Decreased productivity at work (very understanding employer helped), shorter attention span, missed household chores, not as present for people. Because this new horrible thing was suddenly consuming huge amounts of mind space.

And I felt bereft, sad, angry at myself, just a mess. Freaked out. Way more than the event merited. Because I was insured. Shit happens. Recounting the event to a loved one, I was told, “Of course that happened. You’re broken. Your mind isn’t working normal right now because of Rick.”

Soon after my brother died, suddenly by suicide, I was in the underground parking garage of a public library in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood. Backing my car up, I absolutely crunched into a huge concrete pillar. It was clearly marked and had reflective paint. Smacked right into it.

Been thinking about how we’re not okay here in Minnesota and how events and the state of affaires are echoing in our day to day world. A thread.

cw: suicide

Well I’m crying in a Minneapolis coffee shop.

Thank you, Bruce.