Meaningless Excitement

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Like a cross between a hurricane, and a ship that’s run aground. Phish, Grateful Dead, mountain biking, snowboarding, gardening in Brattleboro, Vermont. Sometimes using my doctorate to talk about Phish.

Student just came into the library and asked me what my single favorite year of live Grateful Dead is and I told him "hard pressed, I'd say 1973" and then he asked "better than '77?" and then we had a discussion about the relative merits of 2-drummer vs. 1-drummer Grateful Dead

"Yeah, we know, we’re seen as boring and old and out of touch. But we’re hungry for progress. As long as it feels scripted and familiar. We’re ready to usher in profound change, abstracted into a focus-group-tested campaign slogan." buff.ly/tt1slzK

These Exciting Progressive Candidates Who Might Lose Must Be Replaced by Boring Moderates Who Will Definitely Lose

“Yeah, we know, we’re seen as boring and old and out of touch. But we’re hungry for progress. As long as it feels scripted and familiar. We’re ready to usher...

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Reprise downtown tonight, playing Stowe ‘93, which makes me very happy. Hopefully they’ll do some of that summer 93 weirdness! Also, don’t tell me anything about this show. I don’t know it and I don’t like to look at the setlist prior

I give you a photo of a Cybertruck crushing a no parking cone taken in the reflective windows of Pete Hegseth’s Christian nationalist Church next to the newly opened Jersey Mikes on Pennsylvania Avenue

A mirrored door and front window in a storefront. In the window you can see a cybertruck that has crushed an orange construction cone. You can see a construction barrier reflected in the door that shows a slightly different angle