Yes, names like Smith, Schomaker and Tanner come from the family business.

Don’t ask about the Dickinsons.

Nah. Just adding context.

Refused is a Swedish thrash punk band. They made a couple EPs and albums, then put out their magnum opus, The Shape of Punk to Come, and then immediately broke up. They did get back together a couple years ago, though.

Propagandhi is a Canadian post punk band. They’ve had a dozen different styles over the years, and nobody can agree on which they did best. Personality I like their heavy Thrash album best, Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes.

As much as I hate my country’s devolution into fascism, I love that Murphys are having a resurgence.

Don’t learn too much history, though. You’ll find out he was pretty apologetic for the USSR’s bullshit.

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Anecdotal, but in my experience fake wood does not count. Just on Friday I said knock on wood and used some fake vinyl bullshit. Cut to 5 hours later, the exact thing I was trying to ward off happened.

Listen, I’m the first person to point out that the D party has it’s fucking problems. But saying “both sides suck” is just bullshit. A sprained ankle and and amputated leg both suck, but let’s not fucking equivocate here.

Democrats don’t do anything.

Republicans do evil things.

Yeah, one side is fucking worse.

Motherfucker’s talking about adding crunch to a peanut butter banana sandwich?

Seattle just passed a millionaires tax. Howard Schultz, the old Starbucks CEO, made a big stink of it and moved away.

Thing is, Howard Schultz is universally reviled in Seattle. Even corporate shills agree that he fucking sucks.

Unforgivable.

Nurses, teachers, public defenders, social workers, therapists, etc etc.

The system knows that if you got into a job for any reason other than money it can fuck you over.

Isn’t Facebook itself a private intelligence-sharing network?

In person? Streetlight Manifesto at a shithole venue during the dog days of summer on the Somewhere in the Between tour. It was so goddamn hot that the security guys were paying more attention to spraying the crowd with cold water than making sure people were safe. Stage diving, crowd surfing, insane energy the entire time.

On tv? Hard not to say Gojira at the Paris Olympics.

Does it really matter if he killed himself or not? Either he was murdered, or he was intentionally allowed to commit suicide. The conclusion of both of those options is that the people in charge did this.

Article’s fairly interesting. It’s from a “capitalism good, state-run economy bad” perspective, but he does delve deeper than knee-jerk “communism evil” rhetoric. The main point is that Trump is inviting in investment from Chinese companies, and since they have the blessing and backing of the entire Chinese nation (government, workforce and global influence) behind them, they’ll be able to outcompete American companies and rule the entire market.

I did manage to see Propagandhi back in 2009ish, and it was maybe the best damn show I’ve ever been to.

Then they didn’t come back for over a decade. And that show got canceled because the frontman got covid the night before.

Then they were supposed to pay a festival near here, but they announced right before that they were never going to tour America again because of all the fascist bullshit.

Fuckin eh. Is that worse than foie gras? I don’t even know.

What’s the best thing after a long day’s work? A shower. What’s the second best thing? A beer. Put em together. Magical.