Eric Fredericksen

are you a Showbiz Pizza person or a Chuck E. Cheese person?

I supported local food systems when buying tonight's dinner (walked to the Chipotle that just opened a block away).

I love that the Grateful Dead and Van Halen have a key cover in common.

I don't think it's fair that lunch ends at 1. It's like you're already an hour behind on your afternoon. Lunch should run from 12 until noon.

The Gen X Career Meltdown Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.

"If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work." Factual.

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The pentatonic scale is the worst thing that ever happened to the guitar.

A few sites — it's hard to describe in a succinct way but basically it's a player piano encased in screens presenting live and prerecorded video.

We are working on a public art project based on that mass migration and roosting!

I was behind one yesterday, hypnotised by the way headlights revealed the oil-canning of the tailgate's steel panel.

Lol

YouTube video by burtflaxton Pavement - No More Kings

This version is maybe too gentle but has a bit of yelling...

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Maybe the only thing Orwell didn't nail in his otherwise perfect 1984 is that Big Brother from any reasonable perspective would be an obvious dipshit (not that it still wouldn't matter.)

(Because we are going to Christiana this summer.)

Twenty years (?!) after, I tried to go back and listen to Fiery Furnaces, but it was kind of exhausting.

YouTube video by ScandalVEVO Scandal - The Warrior (Official Video) ft. Patty Smyth

The rare Patty Smith who is neither Patti Smith nor Patty Smyth.

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Bear found hiding under Altadena home after Eaton Fire Samy Arbid had a surprise guest hiding out at his Altadena home when he finally returned to the neighborhood after the Eaton Fire.

"He's pretty harmless," neighbor Patty Smith said. "He just wants some good trash, like we all like some good trash."

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Who Goes MAGA? In 1934, a courageous, flawed, complicated journalist named Dorothy Thompson was kicked out of Nazi Germany for reporting with relentless, brutal accuracy on...

Best to first read "Who Goes Nazi," the linked Harper's essay from 1941 that inspired this clarifying update for our time. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Did you hear the one about the male feminist who walked into a bar?

To be fair, it was set so low...

Just watched a Cyber Truck try to parallel park on 4th in Kits.

Has anyone noticed that men, past a certain age, often forget to clear their throat before speaking, resulting in a disturbing gurgle accompanying everything they say?

Just figured out the perfect metaphor for operating with ADHD. Every action with more than one variable becomes the Chicken - Fox - Sack of Corn River Crossing puzzle.

Nominative determinism demands she play for Liverpool.

Victory at last. (Ba Bar, Seattle)

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Love Monsoon and Ba Bar. We kept hitting places where we couldn't park and then found them closed -- Dong Thap for good, they've moved to Tukwila -- and then ran out of time.

Just got thoroughly defeated trying to get pho in Seattle. Like all of Seattle was just telling us to give up and go home until we did.

Mood.

I did some indigo dying last weekend at El Nido.

Has anyone put a scene in a movie where a character puts their phone into an empty coffee cup to amplify the music? It might be the cutest contemporary gesture.