i think a lot as i get older about Milton’s read on Hell as being the person you make yourself into, brick by brick, until you have to dwell inside that person that you made of yourself forever

The greatest of all time followed the hater's code, so should everyone

Shit.

Everyone's posting Sinéad O'Connor songs (and they're brilliant and you should listen to them all). I'm also a fan of her guest appearance on Shane McGowan and the Popes: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7307…

So long, Nebraska, and thanks for all . . . the fish, I guess?

On the road . . .

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No, they really do believe. Which is why when politics embraced it (the right has for decades but it accelerated, IMO the fulcrum point was in the room where Kristol et al chose Sarah Palin. Trump took the spot I thought she'd take), "mainstream" analysts couldn't see it coming

Dave Zirin has it cold:

Billy Bragg gets it. Billy Bragg's always gotten it: "Well, they want to divide us/ 'cause together we're strong/ are you gonna' take action now you've sung your damn song?"

Read the thread and stay for the kickass playlist.

Just finishing the audio of Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake and the "Slasher 103" segment was just a perfect surprise. Thanks Stephen King .

I'm going to post this because it's hilarious (and my parents have evolved so much since when this conversation happened 25 years ago), but when I was in high-school my mom told me that 4/20 was the pot holiday because it was Hitler's birthday and Hitler discovered marijuana.

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Sitting in a Cabela's parking lot, eating a vegetarian breakfast sandwich, and listening to Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays. Yes, I contain multitudes.

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