a little bit of Uh Huh and a whole lot of Oh Yeah

Accumulating random crap since 1976! Mostly strange humor, fountain pens, history, politics, LGBT issues, art, odd pictures from my iPhoto library, and irrelevant status updates. I'm an ESTJ. In my day job I'm a scientist or something. And I like boys.

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Timely.

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Fifteen years later.

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Oh, hey Tumblr.

Here’s yesterday’s sunset in Tucson (13th Sept. 2015)

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Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be very dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, connected to what you are inside. It will make you think that the world should and could be a better place. And occasionally it will make you very, very happy.

Peter Gabriel, on his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 10 April 2014

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Springtime in the desert. 3 April 2014.

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In Rotation: February 2014

Brothertiger - "Crazy, Again" (Future Splendors, Mush, 2013)

Neko Case -  "Local Girl" (The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, Anti, 2013)

Germany Germany - "On Your Own" (Reconnect, 2014)

Lusine - "February" (The Waiting Room, Ghostly International, 2014)

Pills - "Hikikomori" (199 / II013, Mashhh!, 2013)

TEEEL - "Imperial" (The End Of Civilization comp, Mannequin, 2013)

Com Truise - "Declination (feat. Joel Ford)" (Wave 1, Ghostly International, 2014)

Washed Out - "All I Know" (Paracosm, Subpop, 2013)

Work Drugs - "Chemical Burns" (Insurgents, Bobby Cahn, 2014)

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The Velvet Underground, "Sister Ray" (1968)

RIP Lou Reed (1942-2013)

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If it is important for us to speak and vote our convictions in matters of internal policy, though we may unfortunately be in disagreement with the President, it is infinitely more important for us to speak and vote our convictions when the question is one of peace or war, certain to involve the lives and fortunes of many of our people and, it may be, the destiny of all of them and of the civilized world as well.

Sen. Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr., when he and just five other Senators voted against President Woodrow Wilson's war declaration in April 1917 (source)

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Pinback, "June" (Some Voices EP, 2000)

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Oh, hai Tumblr.

Have things gotten lame since the sale to Yahoo?

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams, American diplomat & politician (1735-1826) in Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, December 1770.

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The 2012 Republican National Convention summarized in one image

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People don't see any way out of what's going on economically or politically -- not just in Russia but all over the world. But artists have recognised there is a way out and it's that we begin to realise the problem is spiritual, not economical or political. When we recognise that, we can begin to claw our way back to a world as it was intended by its creator to be. Caring and compassionate.

Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor on the jailing of members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot [source]

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Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.

Opens Tom Morello in a scathing Rolling Stone op-ed lashing the VP nominee (via tpmmedia)

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Missing it already.

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Meanwhile, back at Romney's evil lair...