"At Lorton [Reformatory], Brown seized every opportunity to learn. He repaired clothing, poured metal, offered advice to fellow inmates, and, most importantly, honed his guitar skills. He learned from experienced jazz musicians who had performed with legends like Count Basie."
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there’s like ten people at karaoke again this week, which is good because the masses aren’t prepared to hear my rendition of faithfully by journey
if you’re cis you have to read this. if you don’t you’re a bad person. yes i am speaking to you, person considering scrolling. mark. im talking to you mark. tuck in your shirt and read the piece dipshit
I wrote about how angry I feel watching people write columns about trans women in sports.
hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please
You want to live like spreadsheet people You want to see whatever spreadsheet people see You want to sleep with spreadsheet people You want to sleep with spreadsheet people like me? But she didn't understand She just smiled and held my hand
if spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them
(to the tune of She’s Like Heroin by SOAD) Weird Al Tiny Desk
yes i am a pervert and yes these are ray bans but these are NOT the pervert ray bans, my perversion is completely analog thank you very much
i watched the badgers beat the nova knicks at the great dane hilldale (RIP) also saw the Fail Mary game there
when you see a big game at a restaurant, it stays with you. for instance, i watched mark buehrle’s perfect game at the billy goat, staying for extra cheeseburgers and old styles and i watched charlie whitehurst lead the 7-9 seahawks to the 2010 nfc west title at the hooters in sunrise, florida
hey the two top teams in the WNBA are about to play, not sure if that fits in the current discourse as interesting but for people who care about basketball and women's sports it's a pretty big deal!
so in this article, they quoted: -an anti-trans hate group -fucking Jennifer Sey -the dumb jock who is totally fine with being the next Anita Bryant -0 trans people
EXCLUSIVE: "People are like, 'You have a platform. Use it,' and then once you use it, it's like, 'Go back to playing basketball.'” "We can be a great example of how to do both." Sophie Cunningham talks the ongoing WNBA discourse around trans athletes:
The Brewers are up 22-0 over Seattle, and one of those runs came because Julio Rodríguez caught the second out and threw it into the stands thinking it was the third.
as a born-and-raised relentless specimen of the genre myself, can I also say that (while I don't necessarily slot the Senator into our stable) anybody tossing this around as a pejorative of Ossoff has woefully limited powers of imagination re: the destructive potential energy of the Theatre Kid
"Theatre kid" is tossed around by right-wingers, and I want to say: - I wasn't a theatre kid. - I have a theatre kid, they're great. So are their friends. - If you have a problem with theatre kids you should look into your heart to see why or crawl back into your hole and die. Either's fine by me.
i'm seeing a dangerous lack of bo burnham respect on my timeline. he's an excellent artist. if you can't recognize that bc INSIDE pings your cringe radar, your cringe radar is oversensitive
easily the most “millennial cringe” coded piece of art i absolutely adore, return to all the time, and will defend with my whole chest? bo burnham’s INSIDE, which i have once again found myself enthralled by
this weekend I’ve been trying an interesting new tactic on jet lag recovery called “not recovering at all”
"Got mental problems? Addicted to obscure substances? Paid too much attention in histoy class? I'm Warren Zevon, and you may be entitled to some bitchin' rock music"
shout out to the city of limerick for holding an extremely dope music festival during my brother’s frisbee tournament
WAR PIGS BUT ITS ABOUT MILLENNIAL NOSTALGIA: do you remember drinking SNAPPLEEEEE / listening to fiona APPLLLEEE
now i’m in ireland and honestly my bladder feels fine
guess who forgot to piss before a 7 hour flight
I was doing “bran is the rightful king of westeros” bits to annoy people during like season 3 of GOT
What is the most vindicated you have be ever been for a hot take
it’s kind of crazy that we already have someone in the “White Shedeur” fandom lane and Arch hasn’t been drafted yet (it also won’t work for arch bc he should probably be playable)
the way im seeing some people talk about the JJ mccarthy benching is baffling. this is the only position where for some reason people struggle to admit a guy just isn’t NFL quality. he was not failed by anyone. he sat on the bench for a year and came back barely knowing the offense!
you perverts like staring at wisconsin, huh? you like looking at maps with all of our stupid little counties? you can't help yourselves but whisper "fond du lac" and "shawano" while reading about ballot drops. you want to taste a cheese curd? huh?
all this talk about woke 1 woke 2 meanwhile i woke 4 in the morning with my sons elisha and ezekiel to slop the hogs milk the cows and feed the chickens all before sunrise
Just sent out some community theatre cast offers. There’s no rush like it