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An fantastic friend to spend Record Store Day with. Thanks Barry! #rsd #recordstoreday #walletpain #daybreakrecords (at Daybreak Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwNlC1fAgGLZxqF2pHMhx-sulJL-pltif6YloQ0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=myq42jby7zyt

#rsd #recordstoreday #walletpain #daybreakrecords

This is a fun album. A piece of Seattle music history that I'm surprised I never knew about until recently. (at Birchwoods, Bellingham) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvpPmetAVdUjgzqFzAx1tdUM9-azRZgg0ObFAo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sucs9k021h2w

An article on Stereogum reminded me of 20 years ago when I had the pleasure of interviewing Will Cullen Hart of Olivia Tremor Control for local Bellingham mag What's Up, prior to the release of Black Foliage and a show they played in Bellingham at WWU. This album is such a treasure and so fun to listen to. I adore it, but I never been able to handle many repeat listens. The most apt descriptor I can think of is "dense". It's just so dense and disjointed, and it's sometimes too much to take in one sitting. You have to be in right frame at the right time, and when that happens the album clicks beautifully. And I love it dearly. That show was awesome. The Music Tapes were awesome. Half of the band ended up crashing at our house that night. Each time I was able to see OTC live in the 90s, they were amazing. And it sucks after Bill Doss passed that I won't get to see them live again in the foreseeable future. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXOd9Bgj415XJsLFMAOKJ4SsjG34PM2jizo7Y0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ppznjucv2kzo

I thoroughly enjoyed reading @daveholmes memoir this week. Growing up in the 80s, gay and musically obsessed, the first part of the book was very familiar. I used a ticket stub from a recent amazing show by The Chills, it felt appropriate. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXN0BjgADLKTOdXo4qllBWCA3OVpp_sIzpbF80/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17kmbi4uh9o8b

Our dear friend Randall passed away a little over 5 years ago, and we recently came across a box of his items in our storage that didn't make it to his family. Inside was a collection of buttons that I think gives some insight into his personality... witty, many times irrelevant and sarcastic, always jovial. If he could've gotten away with wearing these at work, he would've. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsG-uv6A6xe_MJchGQDtXSPdiglXM-55627pZc0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qdcfr4p3i309

Since it's already the new year in New Zealand, thought I'd start the night with this... https://www.instagram.com/p/BsFVBfjgKpux5WOByF331AUGVFsiXjorYpvHQM0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=prgg0hoegm1k

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Question…

An anguished question from a Trump supporter: “Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?”

The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don’t…

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.”

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.”

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.”

That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.”

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.”

That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!”

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?”

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.”

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!”

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!”

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!”

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.”

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!”

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!”

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.”

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!”

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids. has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “well, ok then.”

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

What you don’t get, Trump supporters in 2018, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also…hear me…charitable.

Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are *less* flattering.

Practicing the Spanish before our trip to Costa Rica next month. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBIeAUAla9paHMe-ii5mn65a5xQtOtwzK--OE0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xe8ptyc7vejg

Was having a good hair day the other day and felt that I should document it. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn4-zuggFHURFwsRU0DCICFjyYRWshQ5PYy5Fw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a3s7hkrh3lov

Bright happy glow courtesy of my wonderful seasonal affective disorder light box. Should I start growing the beard back now, or wait until the official end of summer? (at Bellingham, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnoZ6dIFtlk0lo6kSAGbytE8eEAo-rBhguzfPw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yvju70lp6so5

Found at a local antique store... (at Penny Lane Antique Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm1Cdw-A27fDphqOmIuz_ItsVdewuSELIDnAKE0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xtwi2g45929t