Ghostin' Gerth

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Reading *On the Road* in eighth grade made me start thinking about language itself and words as sounds, rather than just utilitarian, linear communication tools.

Smaller-scale: Colson Whiteheads's *Sag Harbor* turned me into a semi-knowledgeable old school hip-hop listener.

Now Would Be A Good Time, by Folk Bitch Trio 10 track album

I think this Folk Bitch Trio album is pretty front-loaded, but man do I dig those first three songs: folkbitchtrio.bandcamp.com/album/now-wo...

better things are possible

The political pundits that have been trying to get you to sell out other human beings as a power move to win elections are both intellectually and morally bankrupt.

Baked an apple cake last night. Man, I get a true thrill out of putting each baking ingredient away as you use them in the recipe, so the kitchen gets less messy as you go. Feels like a magic trick.

photo of six pumpkins carved into glowing jack-o'-lanterns, in front of a brick wall. a large pumpkin has the cow tools cow carved into it and another large pumpkin has the barn. in front of them are 4 small pumpkins, each carved with one of the cow tools on them. the lump pumpkin has no stem and the prongler pumpkin is laid sideways so that the stem lines up and forms the bottom half of the prongler, it's top half carved into the pumpkin.

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Spoke to a couple of Twin Cities tube amp builders for @racketmn.com

tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

A must read thread!

Please help Racket, the wonderful independent journalists for whom I occasionally get off the couch and write something, fill the cartoon thermometer at this link by giving them a little bit of money in exchange for regular doses of excellent, MN-centric alt weekly style online writing.

The two Bad Brains CDs in my 2012 Ford Fiesta are to me as the Creedence tapes in The Dude's car are to him in The Big Lebowski.

Digital flyer for a gig Thursday August 28 at Palmer's Bar in Minneapolis. The flyer features a photo of a cat lounging on a window sill next to a small plastic goat painted metallic pink. A speech bubble attributed to the cat says "It's gonna be chill." The lineup is Storm Coffee (the band I play drums in), Deep Fortune, and Basement Heroes. The show starts at 9.

Gig alert: Playing at Palmer's Thursday night.

Screenshot of extremely disheartening Stereogum headline "Earl Sweatshirt Now Likes Shit, Goes Outside."

Jeez, everyone sells out eventually.

We are living in an era where we all—as citizens, employees, creators, fans, whatever—understand, value, and care far more about the larger things we are involved with than the people in charge of them, who as often as not distrust or even disdain our commitment.

Nate Silver thinks academic journals are a lost cause.

But they aren't. If anything, the real problem is that these journals are *too* profitable.

Which means no one bothers to dream up other ideas, only variations on the theme.
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Deleting email
regarding a sub sandwich
already eaten.

We can’t let weird stuff like the actual, rock bottom crime rates affect our number one industry, which is the imaginary crime industrial
complex

How can we revere Shakespeare as the greatest poet in the English language when he didn't write "I got new girls and I'm running around / the house doesn't look the same / I hung new posters on my wall / and the dog don't remember your name"?

the collective lack of imagination around public safety is so depressing to me. the cops did nothing to protect her from this mugging which is proof that we must promote cops who kill people?

since ancient times people have been lying on the floor

Can't be running from getting scrambled, as he is clearly already fried.

Buying one t-shirt ($20) from your favorite artist nets them more than 6,500 Spotify streams

Wrote a little essay for the great @ihavethatonvinyl.com about how a free record led me to get a record player and jump-started my vinyl collection:

Show poster for New Age Phonograph and Storm Coffee on 7/19 at 9 p.m. $10 cover. The poster is a picture of two cats looking out a window at a squirrel crawling down the window screen. The cats are alert and facing away from the camera.

Poster for Sunny Duchess, Deletist, and Storm Coffee at Zhora Darling on 7/15. $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Doors 6:30, show at 7, 18-plus. The poster is some kind of illustration or sketch of two snakes with fangs bared.

(Scott Kannberg voice) Two shows! We want two shows!

I got two gigs this week with Storm Coffee in Minneapolis: 7/15 at Zhora Darling with Sunny Duchess and Deletist and 7/19 at the Terminal Bar with New Age Phonograph.

A dumb galaxy brain meme with three levels. The lowest level with a brain that is merely glowing says "Simon & Garfunkel"; the second level, at which the brain is firing off beams of light, says "The Everly Brothers"; the third and highest level, which seems to depict a human conscious ascending to enlightenment via a blue and red glow, says "Alice in Chains."

Thinkin' about two part male harmony

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Listened to Revolver on the way up north the other day and have been thinkin’ about Ringo’s backbeats on “I’m Only Sleeping” all weekend.