Audio (MP3): 20180309 - Something Just Like This by The Chainsmokers and Coldplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7MFYoylVs

Peeps, here’s your batman-with-his-fists Friday jam. I know I’ve said this before but I absolutely hated songs like this in another life. Jams like this would come on when I was a teenager or in my 20s and I’d turn that shit off.

I was pretty dumb and pretty snotty when it came to music. But I guess more than that I’d never felt the magic with another person they were singing in their ballads. My gut reaction was then to always condemn their melodies. Fuck them guys like Coldplay.

And then after my first divorce I learned that being alone was my choice. It wasn’t fate or destiny. It was my shitty attitude.

So in the here-and-now I know what they’re talking about. I’ve felt something “just like this” and it changed everything.

If you never have felt a love song then don’t worry. That feeling’s out there. It may be just around the corner. A person you may or may not know is waiting, is looking for you, too.

But first don’t be an all around jerk. Throw away your bullshit and open yourself up to nonfictional fairy tales. There’s a love song with your name on it. Somebody’s holding out for a magical adventure. Just with you.

Make sure you’re ready for them.

And then hold their hand when you run away together.

#musicvideos #thechainsmokers #diariespodcast

It’s trash night. I HATE TRASH NIGHT.

#thestruggleisreal

Our server to the booth next to us:

My parole officer won’t let me leave the state.

#meanwhile at Denny’s

Happy hump day, peeps! May your grass be golden, your skies be blue, and patriotism be true. 🇺🇸

Before you anarchists internally scowl remember there’s a difference between devotion to your country and devotion to your government. I, for one, do not welcome our new corporate overlords.

#photos #flags

Peeps, here’s Thurston Moore live on KEXP back in 2014. Settle in for 32+ minutes of guitar and gab. I’ve always enjoyed how Thurston just beats the shit out of his guitar.

I really do have this trust in muse…and that’s sorta proved to me through the years to be the best thing is to really let inspiration sorta define your decisions.

When I try to force creativity it just comes out as bullshit. Some days I don’t have anything to say so I don’t say anything.

However, when anybody says, “I don’t own a television set” I wanna roll my eyes. It almost feels like a backhanded slap of judgement. Good for you that you don’t own a TV.

However × 2, Cease Fire is quite good:

#musicvideos #thurstonmoore

This is what you do when you’re me and it’s bedtime
📸📸📸🤔 #photos #selfies

Audio (MP3): 20180306 - When others are behaving badly

It’s easy to be of the mindset that how people behave is their business and I shouldn’t let it affect me. But that’s a level of spiritual enlightenment most likely I’ll never reach. Setting such a high bar for myself always makes me feel like I’m coming up short. I shouldn’t go around expecting myself to be more than I actually am, do more than I actually can.

When I try and stop things from bugging me I tend to act/react twice as bad. The situation tends to ratchet up because I’m suppressing natural emotion. Not allowing myself to feel all of god’s given emotions is the never the right thing to do.

Not long ago I was pretty agitated with somebody and I’m sure it showed. But I don’t give a fuck. People throw tantrums and I’ll scoff in their general direction.

I think the real goal in situations like this, when others are behaving badly is to strive for simply not acting badly myself. Morons will always get on my nerves. I’m not immune to another’s stupidity but if I mind my proverbial Ps and Qs all will be right in the cosmos.

And when all is said and done I a- get to experience all my emotions, good or bad and b- don’t have any fences to mend. Then I get on with my life.

In related news… acting tough, walking around with your chest puffed out just makes you look like an asshole.

#advancedsoul #protip #relationships #diariespodcast

Ajit Pai’s supporters say he’s gone too far with plan that hurts poor people

Pai, the Federal Communications Commission chairman, wants a major overhaul of Lifeline, a federal program that lets poor people use a $9.25 monthly household subsidy to buy Internet and/or phone service. Today, more than 70 percent of wireless phone users who rely on Lifeline subsidies buy their plans from resellers, i.e. companies that purchase capacity from network operators and then resell it directly to consumers.

Pai’s Lifeline plan would force all of those customers to find new carriers, because he proposes to limit Lifeline subsidies to “facilities-based broadband” providers, those that operate their own networks. As we’ve previously reported, excluding resellers from the program would limit competition in the market for subsidized plans and push consumers toward network operators like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile USA, and Sprint.

It’s a long article but you should read it just to see how evil Ajit Pai is. Fuck that guy.

#politics

Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?

On Sunday, the social network ran a survey for some users asking how they thought the company should handle grooming behaviour. “There are a wide range of topics and behaviours that appear on Facebook,” one question began. “In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook’s policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures.”

The options available to respondents ranged from “this content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it” to “this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it”.

Who the hell approved this crap? It didn’t pop-up red flags for anybody at FB HQ?

#facebook #fail

Audio (MP3): 20180306 - Moments of belligerence

Friends. Family. Total strangers. I don’t consider himself an arrogant person.

One evening, however, when I was running “who do I have to blow” late, I was pulled over. You may have heard this policeman story before. It was many years ago so don’t get too excited.

Anyways, when the officer walked up to my driver’s side window, I flicked my cigarette down toward his lazily shined shoes. I didn’t consciously do this, had no intention of being jerky, no intention of premeditated arrogance. It just happened.

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