I'm still, occasionally opening all tabs and going through the corner of the internet I have bookmarked and arranged into two tabs. Currently called 'Open Tabs 3.0a' and 'Open Tabs 3.0b' (41 and 38 respectively)
Now one of the micro blogging platforms has taken up a pile of my time/attention. There has been some great film discussion (analog as in taking photos, not as in movies) lots of amazing artists sharing their work and some shit posting. But it is also chock full of fellow ASD folks who don't interact much beyond that and are currently terrified/frustrated/outraged/hopeless/all of the above and don't know what to do besides call their congress people and vent. Is it healthy? No but neither is the state of affairs. But that's all for that previous post.
So given previous post, and me showing up late to work, and then not eating breakfast and then waiting till noon to eat lunch because 1pm meeting and then eating so fast, and still being hungry, well. Lets open all tabs. There a few new bookmarks, two substacks in particular. Now, I have a beef with that platform, it is up there with that OG micro-blogging place in terms of rotten to the core and funding the bad people, so my current policy is to read a very few specific ones, but I won't share links. Also I don't feel comfortable paying for premium access and that kind of sucks because Amanda Batty's got some good stuff going and can use the support, and Mike Ferrentino is doing a deep dive into back issues of BIKE mag for his paid subs but paying into a platform like that? For now it is a no go, gotta draw a line somewhere, being broke with zero discretionary funds does make it easier. There are really only two others that I have been reading with regularity and that's feldmancat's and enzotcat's. I'll put in an IYKYK for that. And if you do you do. If you know me you also know other stuff as to why I'm following along. Another IYKYK and you probably don't or if you do maybe you can put the pieces together. If not no worries.
I am not usually that obviously cryptic. Most of the time I'm so cryptic I confuse myself on the re-read.
All that's a pre-amble to something totally different. And of course I'll probably run out of time.
Oh - check the IG (link on the sidebar) been posting more photos there lately. Because why not.
So yeah - Patrick O'Grady. Kind of funny, Patrick and Mike F are two of the people from in the way back machine I'd always said I'd love to have a beer with. O'Grady sobered up before I did. So maybe we just get a cup of coffee some day. or not.
He posted the Truckin' live song in memory of Bob Weir. I am NOT a dead head, never have been, never went to their shows, but I have heard their music.
Listening to this I'm reminded that most of the stuff I've heard are radio edits that are not 10+ minutes long. I'm also not a Phish fan (shocking). So listening to this I kind of was reminded while I'm familiar with the songs, the live stuff is alien to me. It is still excellent and I can acknowledge these guys were good, just not really my thing.
So here: you get to listen to it here if you want.
Or go read P O'G's stuff (it is all good) and read about his reflection about BW
Tapping out and prep'n for the new hurdle at 1pm. Need more coffee for this, and *waves hands around* that too
oh and coffee - coffee grinder got all fucked up somehow. I think maybe I have it working again, that was an ordeal and not a great process but we'll see...
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