While he was still in college, my dad bought a DIY banjo building kit. He put it together and learned to play a few songs, but he wasn’t too serious about it. Growing up, I remember him pulling it out now and then. It was a nice little novelty. Hello, 1984! My uncle Steve is […]
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Will Mitchell × TapeOp
I first met Will as he was making his bed, inside a cubicle at Washington City Paper. I was a freelancer at the time, and it was one of my first visits to the actual office. He set up an ikea foldout so he could pull late nights wrangling web code. It was an amusing […]
Regress
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Speechless
Hi Friend! How’d you spend your stimulus? Mine just arrived. The SSA took way too long to deliver information to the IRS, so elderly and disabled people like me were among the last to get paid, but it’s here now! I’m getting my bass fixed up and putting a big chunk in savings. This kid […]
Big Changes (Heck Yea!)
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Hugh McElroy × Ainte Maro
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You Know That I Know
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Jabbed!
I got the jab, y’all! I received the Moderna vaccine on Monday, and fortunately, it wasn’t bad at all. A little arm soreness, but nothing worse than my usual muscle aches. We’ll see how the booster shot goes, but this one was definitely a relief—vaccines can cause pretty bad crashes for people with ME/CFS. Proof […]
Jason Robinson × SubEvoA
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The Indie Pop Hit That Never Was
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