META-SPIEL 2026 Primary Election Guide
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#illinois #primary #election #karinavilla
Pardon my poor editing! As always! Also please yell at me if you feel like it!
META-SPIEL 2026 Primary Election Guide
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#illinois #primary #election #karinavilla
Pardon my poor editing! As always! Also please yell at me if you feel like it!
Phthursday Musings: The Boar's Tusk
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#vanuatu #boartusk #anaeverling #santaesmeralda
Running Around Illinois: Aurora
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#running #illinois #runningaroundillinois #aurora #waubonsie #compressionsocks
Phthursday Musings: Let's Horse Around
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#horse #horses #dirtythree #ukraine #jksimmons #horsingaround
@mrillinois.bsky.social you may be pleased to learn that for annual Cultural Night at the school, we have signed up to offer a table extolling the cultural virtues of Illinois, most specifically the ancestral homelands of Rockford and Peoria
02.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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I wrote a loooong piece on our current social / political moment, confronting it, using the right language to describe it, and the importance of staying creative and engaged with each other. You might need to break it into chunks. I hope you'll read it all!
Phthursday Musings: Cemetery Prairies
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#cemeteries #prairie #iowa #books
This week is mostly about encouraging you to read a wonderful piece I found thanks to @walthickey.bsky.social and written by @christianelliott.me so go do that now!
I found your piece today via Walt Hickey. There's so much to unpack and may I say, your delivery is remarkable. It's like a work of metaphysics disguised as a consideration of rural cemeteries. I feel like I have more to say but don't know where to begin because of the vastness of your reach. Bravo.
11.01.2026 23:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Phthursday Musings: Dissonant, Kompliceret
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#america #dissonance #gym #greenland #griffin #flag
Imagine people who like to think of themselves as sophisticated but who aren’t usually invited to truly fancy dinners, and then when they do get invited, instead of being appreciative, they just scheme to figure out how to steal the silverware.
That’s the Trump Administration in a nutshell.
Phthursday Musings: 2025 Happened, 2026 Happenstances
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My 2025 in review. So many spiels. So many baseball games.
The thing is that I don’t care except that I greatly look forward to your anguished discussion of the matter so I’m content for him to take 5-6 years to retire because you provide such excellent commentary on the matter
01.01.2026 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had to look Andy Cohen up out of confusion. Andy Cohen is of course the world’s greatest guitarist but would not be found on TV at all! I have absolutely no idea who this other Andy Cohen is.
01.01.2026 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Running Around Illinois: Lisle
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#running #illinois #runningaroundillinois #lisle #theinnergameoftennis #tennis #turkey #mortonarboretum
Two races in Lisle! And I write about The Inner Game of Tennis too!
Phthursday Musings: An Inconceivable Loss
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#robreiner #princessbride #spinaltap
Pokémon und Laufen, ausgezeichnet. Viele Grüße aus Illinois!
16.12.2025 00:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Phthursday Musings: Bailter Phtursday
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Bailter Space, a great, weird, underappreciated band
RIP Brent McLachlan, as I spend a lot of time talking about being 19 again
#bailterspace #newzealand #christchurch #kiwipop #matador
Phthanksgiving Musings: Goodman & Grouse
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I spontaneously recommend a new holiday tradition for you all to adopt!
#thanksgiving #phthanksgiving #arloguthrie #stevegoodman #ptarmigan #grouse #lierne #norway #wxrx
Suddenly realizing that there's a guitar line in Television's "Elevation" which was directly lifted as the rhythm line in Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication" and sharing that information with you all now just because
21.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Phthursday Musings: Horses
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#horses #horse #pattismith #cbgb #sharqia #egypt #secretariat #zagazig #zigzagoon #pommelhorse
There is no piece of "technology" more infuriating than the standard receipt printer.
20.11.2025 03:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I try an unusual political science diversion to unify some themes about the Epstein scandal and how awful Larry Summers is (and for that matter Bill Clinton...)
#billkreml #dialectic #larrysummers #monopoly #politics
@matthewstoller.bsky.social I've given a lot of thought to your piece Saturday on Larry Summers and finally published this tonight. I think you keep making connections others aren't making and I for one really appreciate that.
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Bill Clinton was one of the worst Presidents in American history. He damaged the country in ways no Republican would have been able to, like repealing Glass-Stegall, or shoving the Telecommunications Act of 1996 through. We should all be perfectly fine with him going down too.
17.11.2025 02:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sincere question:
Is it time for us to cancel our subscriptions to The Athletic on the grounds that we simply cannot justify sending any money at all to the New York Times?
Is there any other entity out there besides The Athletic and maybe ESPN that serves at all a similar function?
Announcing the META-FIFTY!
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That's right, I'll be writing 50 pieces about 50 albums over the course of the next year or so, and I managed to just explain that in one sentence, even though I wrote a many paragraphed piece of explanation.
I’ll say though that the funny thing to me about SKWM being “weird” is that when I’m asked to describe to the unknowing I just say: oh they’re a Rock Band, like, a real Rock Band, no adjectives needed except maybe “loud”. This is what “rock music” sounds like, the same way that Abbey Road was.
11.11.2025 02:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@timmidyett.bsky.social this is probably as close as I get to a review of the SKWM book but there’s a lot of weird crap to go through to get there meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/escape-fro...
11.11.2025 02:54 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
META-SPIEL: Escape From Vancouver
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So this is about how the Democratic leadership sucks, but it's also about how Janelle Monae doing "Hey Ya" the other night and how it was awesome, and how it's all related
#vancouver #rnrhof #rocknroll #silkworm #democrats
Phthursday Musings: Gambling Is Stupid and I Hate It
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#gambling #gamblingisstupid #ihateit #kennyrogers #mickeynewbury #oscargamble #reno #porcupine