My favorite aspect of Amazon's en💩ification is that they built their entire brand on 2-day delivery, frequently achieving same- or 1-day if you lived in a major metro. Now they continue to make that promise, but usually just send an email on day 2 saying "Sorry, it's actually going to be 4 days," sometimes repeating that cycle until N days.
Last night I got to hang out with a friend who moved overseas years ago and I hadn't been able to see since. Also there was Philip from the Old 97's, who I'd never met, Salim, who produced most of my records (and a couple Old 97's records), and John Dufilho (Deathray Davies, Apples in Stereo), who produced the last track I ever recorded. Besides getting to hear some inside baseball, it was just so nice to get to hang with this crowd again. Some of it was nostalgia for my life 10-15 yrs ago...
...but mostly it was just honest connection with genuine people, struggling and enjoying life just like all of us, but with an artistic sentiment. This morning I opened a random book I sometimes dip into and it had a great Picasso quote. I tried to find that quote online but found another: "When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
I'm not crying, I'm making a lasagna
I copied this to my clipboard for no reason so now you have to see it:
MAYNARD: It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaarrrrggh'.
ARTHUR: What?
MAYNARD: '...The Castle of aaarrrrggh'.
BEDEVERE: What is that?
MAYNARD: He must have died while carving it.
I enjoy seeing my coworkers' children appear out of their virtual backgrounds on video conferences.
Clearly desperate for small moments of magic
Going back to the original early 90s 7-speed 🌽
I found replacement pulleys and it is likely I just cleaned 30-year-old dirt off the inner plates while replacing
I got everything installed to find the friction bar-end shifter I planned to use doesn't pull enough cable
Quite good, but I could have, and was, writing stuff like this over 20 years ago. In the deepest of ironies, before I moved to Dallas.
The fire that burned within back then, and still does today, back then I would describe as simply "bad theology", now I just recognize as a lack of theology, just a culture, a funny-because-it-is-obvious permanent opposite-day, like Fox News' "fair and balanced".
I need to shower so I can go to my tiny, failing-by-these-metrics Episcopal church.
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"the events and people we encounter in our day might be fake, might be robots from other countries. the news might just be advertisements. you can't even trust videos of cute animals anymore. that adorable possum is stealing someone's drinking water and warming the planet..."
I occasionally enjoy a thoughtful video on the technical details of an art form I'm ignorant about
