Ghost of Tom Joad is an underrated near-masterpiece. The title track! Youngstown! Sinaloa Cowboys!

Tunnel of Love is a goddamn masterpiece. I remember listening to “One Step Up” on repeat when I was going through a tough breakup. It’s such a deeply personal album and a very relatable one. As for Human Touch and Lucky Town, I rarely listen to those two albums from beginning to end but there are still a handful of…

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Greetings and salutations! I hope this weekend finds you well. Here’s my pile of stuff:

It is simply unbearable that they would do something so grisly.

I struggled for a long, long time. Post elementary school, I don’t honestly think I can point to a time where I didn’t have depression. I didn’t know anything else, so I just kind of assumed that’s how everybody felt and was supposed to feel. People who claimed not to were either lying or oblivious, and people who…

As someone who suffers from chronic depression, it’s always nice to see it addressed publicly and by someone who is otherwise successful.

I definitely do. When I first was diagnosed, I was almost 40. even though I’d kind of known a long time since I suffer from severe sleep apnea as well, but I’d always thought that was the cause, since I got diagnosed with that at 30, but I’d been exhausted and depressed as long as I could remember, I’d had suicidal…

The puns! The puns! I can’t bear it!

Delasouls.

Storytime: One time I was at this minor league baseball game, and between innings “Crazy Train,” started up, but I guess the guy manning the controls changed his mind or something, because what played over the speakers was “All aboard! Ha!” And this goofball like five seats down from me said, “Wow, Ozzy’s getting…

You really think Henry Rollins is spontaneously, mistakenly cracking up at something there?

I think “Andy Warhol” would have been a better choice for Bowie, but good list. I also like Dylan losing it toward the end of “Lo and Behold” on The Basement Tapes - Raw.

That’s filed under “cackling, demented”.

I had no idea Tubbs coined the term EGOT. man he really dropped the ball. TOGE woulda been easier to say, and GOTE best of all, since it’s a homonym of GOAT.

Million Dollar Idea: The Break-Up Cafe. Tables with round edges, only hand-held food served (no forks or knives) and pillows everywhere. And you can pay in advance to avoid the awkward “waiting for the server with the bill.”

I mean, I like Midwestern proto-grunge as much as any other GenXer who went to UW-Madison, but this is taking Killdozer fandom a bit too far.

Apparently the Coen Brothers optioned it. Been waiting on that for a while.

Kavalier and Klay is such a great novel, but one of the worst gut-punches I have ever felt in a story. Specifically in the middle section about Kavalier’s brother.

Right now I’m just finishing up The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, which I’ve really been enjoying. At some point I’d like to check out more of his work. Next I’ll probably start in on The Story of a New Name, the second of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. I really liked My Brilliant…