Thanks for the kind words. I’m finding some solace in the the temporary nature of all things, knowledge that this horrible feeling will pass, and remembering that life, eventually, will return to something like normal.

It’s just people being people. Thanks for the thought.

Hey man, it’s cool. We’re obviously different people, with different experiences, and that gives us different worldviews and approaches to life. I don’t know you, and you don’t me, but I don’t wish you any harm, and I’m not going to tell you how to live your life. But before I leave off here, I want you to consider a…

This is not true at all, actually. I’ve dealt with plenty, from pain and despair and heartache to medical problems (for myself and my wife) to death and disappointment and all sorts of rejection, both personal and societal, which has led to lots of depression (including some of that suicidal) and some substance abuse…

Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. Woke up hungover on three hours of sleep to watch my kid (19 months) all day (stay at home dad), and mostly I just let him do what he wanted, be that throwing his toys everywhere around the house or going catatonic watching Bubble Guppies for an hour longer than he…

This is the best and most important thing you’ve written on here in quite some time. Thank you for it. I hope the people in charge of news media organizations are listening, though I suspect they are not.

Madison is pretty fucking segregated too, my friend. That part of town away from the school that nobody ever goes to is where the black people are.

The best part of your comment is how much it adds to the conversation, and to our general appreciation of such a wonderful football player’s extraordinary career.

Yeah, totally. Mostly I just meant how everybody loves the Beatles and I know a ton of people who swear the Beatles are the best band ever, but I don’t trust those people’s opinions on anything artistic, in large part because they insist on the Beatles being the best and so haven’t challenged themselves to have a very…

Shit, yeah. It’s cool!

Didn’t mean to trigger you, friend. Sorry about that.

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BOOM. I salute you, friend.

Yeah, no, VU’s probably too much. A Minnesota band like The Replacements or Husker Du is probably a better analogy. Or maybe Ryan Adams, like another commenter said.

Hey, Rob! Thanks for the great show in Milwaukee a couple months back.

That’s a solid take right there.

In hindsight, maybe I think The Replacements are a better fit.

Fuck yeah I’ll remember Andre Johnson. He seems to me like the guy, in like ten or fifteen years, when most kids have stopped playing football and the ratings have gone off a cliff and everyone’s remembering what it used to be like in the NFL’s glory days and wondering how we ever tolerated such bloodsport on such a…

Yep. All of this.

Couldn’t care less about this motherfucker and won’t read the article in part because I think he’s a festering boil on the ass cheek of American society, but I had to click through to come down here to tell you, one writer to another, that the “leg to stand on” crack in the lede is god-damned perfect.