Peeps, here’s your stripped-away-my-garment Friday jam.

This is definitely my favorite Devo song. It’s a nice slow build with all that emotional angst toward another that I’m so fond of. Decent audio quality for a live video, too, even if Mark Mothersbaugh’s keyboards are a little high in the mix.

And bonus points for Mothersbaugh, doing the Rugrats sound track and all.

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…to when I was literally this cool 🎩

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These guys are last year’s offspring 🎃

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Earlier today I did a Facebook sponsored post for my diaries podcast. Now my site is being hammered with bogus hits.

Why do I think they’re bogus? Because between 12:07 pm and 12:51 pm I had 130+ hits from Facebook, all with nearly identical Facebook app versions (140.0.0.63.89) and iOS versions (10.3.3).

Not a single Android hit. Not a single browser hit with Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer.

And NONE of them had JavaScript or cookies enabled. That NEVER happens.

Download the spreadsheet if ya wanna see some suspicious activity.

Facebook is regularly caught inflating metrics so this doesn’t surprise me but it does piss me off.

And the hits are still pouring in. 😂 🙄

#facebook #fail

The mailman drops the mail off in the little reception area here at work.

Fearless Leader just yelled “HI” to him from his office. 🤔

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Spooky season is coming, peeps!

#photos #flowers #spiderwebs

Just look at all that fun! Cables and clamps, buckets and pylons!

And an Igloo, too, for when ya get thirsty. 👍

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Supplies for the upcoming season… 🎃☠️

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Audio (MP3): 20170913 - Gas cap flopping around

Peeps, I was driving somewhere a few days back and was in a hurry. Of course. I’d stopped at the gas station a few minutes before and that had thrown me even more behind schedule. Of course.

So I was sitting at this stoplight impatiently, rolling my eyes at the car line up before me. And then somebody knocks on my driver’s side window. For a half second I thought it was the police since my license plates are expired and all.

But it was just a regular guy that wanted to let me that my gas door was open.

Way cool that it wasn’t the police but even more way cool that a complete stranger had gotten out of his car at a stoplight to let me know that my gas cap was dangling and the door was open.

There I’d been racing through town with my gas cap flopping around. Like an asshole. I had thought I’d heard something bumping but that’s normal if you drive a used car. Plus, I was in a hurry. Of course.

Again, pretty cool that the dude hopped out of his car at a stoplight just to be a better person.

So then the light turned green and he started to hustle back to his car. But then he stopped, did a 180 and said, “let me just get that for you.” And then he put my gas cap back on and shut the door.

Peeps, that is nothing short of America.^[1]

It may feel like our world is going to shit but we as individuals are what make the difference. In less than ten seconds that guy made the world just that much better.

So why do I put this out there for the universe to see? A moment akin to me walking around with my fly open? Because it keeps me humble, it keeps me grounded. Keeps me from thinking I’m all that and a bag of chips.

But more importantly it’s a good reminder that there are way cool, selfless people out there. People doing their part to make the world a better place. People that we don’t even know.

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1. I dictate many things to Notes.app and for this particular post it heard “America” instead of “miracle.” I couldn’t change it since I’m me. ↑