When I was 12 years old, I played softball in a church league that was underfunded and lacking things like batting helmets. On my first at bat, I lost my grip on the bat after a hard swing, and hit myself in the head. I immediately dropped to the ground while my father, the coach, yelled at me to get up and start…

You can choose just how much info you put in. I wear a bracelet that says I'm allergic to eggs, but I also added it to the emergency screen. I figure the more times that is conveyed in a potential case of emergency, the better chance of me keeping away from them.

I hope I have an ounce of the flexibility and grace that Ander has when I am her age.

I live in WNY and our cities have buses that drive around and pick people up and take them to shelters. They used to use the buses as temporary shelters but the fighting on them got so bad that they had to stop.

You can hear both heartbeats in utero.

What I can't get over is that with the exception of her friend, she looks like she's by herself. If it were me, there would be a wall of huge security dudes keeping people from getting that close to me or I'd be a constant screaming, nervous wreck.

They are however fans of this sort of infuriating bullshit..

I'm most likely deluding myself, and I probably mostly associate with people that I don't find to be deplorable, so I've probably got a skewed perception. I'm for sure the weirdo artist of the road, but I'm their weirdo artist, so they're not that horrible to me. I don't know that I would want to raise kids here…

I love it when everyone wanders away and leaves you in charge. THAT is the true tragedy of the holidays being over.

I'm deep in redneck rural WNY, it's slowly coming around.

I guess I meant it in the context of a female fronted band with a huge record that featured a front woman that could go toe to toe with the men. Other than Shirley Manson, the music scene really didn't have that much to offer in women that were hugely successful. I think there were better acts out there for sure, but…

I dunno, everything was all abuzz when this happened and there was back and forth about it between them a little while later:

Or a murder of those of us that can't get the flu shot due to being legitimately allergic to ingredients in it. BE A GOOD MEMBER OF THE HERD.

Yeah you're right. I was thinking of it in the context of music history(a story that is hardly short on deplorable characters) and not as Dave's personal musical influences.

Mia Zapata was such a serious loss in so many ways.

Except that this is a documentary about music, and despite whatever Courtney is now, the Hole of the early 90's was a huge force in music.

Good grief, no kidding. I participated with my student workers today in the hands up walkout today and a snapshot of it was posted to the local news' facebook page, to which someone sent me a link. I don't have facebook, so I have been blissfully unaware about how completely vile and awful people are willing to be in…

I can't get past how creepy she looks with eyebrows the color of her face.

When I was younger, I would jump off of high bridges, breakwalls and locks into the canal that runs the length of all the surrounding shit towns. I also said yes to questionable drugs, and cared about consequences that pertained mostly to me, fuck everyone else. And then my brain finished developing and I quit doing…

I have no shame for how much joy goes through me when this comes on in the bar, or god help me, the later hours of a wedding reception. It's the ultimate sing along.