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https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-beach-boys/god-only-knows-chords-1050794 This attempt to map it shows 22(!) chord variations. Jesus.

No, I agree, and that's an example why. If you can't keep up at his stage, you aren't cut out for it.

Not during the week. We’re at a temp point where it turns to slime VERY quickly after sun up and I don’t feel like riding single track in the dark. When we have highs of like 40 and overnight lows in the low 20’s, you get a nice early AM window

Todd’s the best. Just hope he’s done making funk albums.

You guys who never have to deal with freeze/thaw are lucky. We have absolutely zero ground moisture thanks to an extended drought, are rocking day time highs in the 50's with 0 snow cover anywhere, and if the temp dips below 32 for a god damn hour, it seems like we get trail wrecking slime for the rest of the day. You should have been able to ride this entire month, but it hasn't been cold enough to stay froze or warm enough not to freeze at all. Just getting taunted.

Honeysuckle Blue by Drivin' N Cryin'?

That sounds like a phenomenal show. John Fullbright is criminally underrated.

I think you're probably right. When coaches start speaking out publicly about NIL, it's a really clear sign that things are passing them by and they're losing their ability to relate to the guys they're going to be recruiting. Boynton's extremely likeable and it's bought him some time, but it seems like it's run it's course. It's weird. OSU being down is good for ISU, but part of me wants to see you guys relevant again. The Big 12 is better when GIA gives a shit.

Biggest reason I haven't got one. Yeah, there's a charging station in my town, but I spend enough time on long drives in rural places that it's just not worth the headache. My brother lives in St Paul and has a Chevy Bolt that he uses to run errands around town, and the full size NIssan SUV for leaving urbanity (and fitting his family). Seems like it's an extremely sensible mix for their life situation (live in urban area but family's all 2+ hours away in BFE).

That's actually a pretty accurate description of what he sounds like. It's my least favorite. Catchy, but sort of stands out as light compared to the rest. He hits some serious pathos on Year To Be Young and American Gothic.

I love this song of his

Yeah, that's all accurate. Most Messed Up is pretty damn autobiographical from what I understand.

Most Messed Up is absolutely classic Old 97's. If you haven't listened to that album much, you should.

Too Far to Care is one of the best albums of that entire genre. I heard it my freshman year at ISU and it blew my mind. It completely changed how I viewed music and even though it wasn't my catalyst to fully embrace country (getting into Drive-By Truckers a couple years later did that) it set the stage. Comparing other stuff to it is only setting yourself up for a letdown.

I dug that.

Pistol Palin to the rescue.

Gotta be. The show is nearly 25 years old. It started in 2000. The fact that Larry David has looked vaguely 70 since he was 30 has blurred the perception of people aging in this series I think. What blows my mind is that Cheryl was 35 when they started the show. Larry was 53. They both seemed much older than 35 or 53 today.

I love Fran. Granted, he's constantly kissing ISU's ass so I'm probably biased as hell on that front.

He got T’d up in Ames a couple weeks ago for it.

By the time we tip Saturday, we’ll know if we control our ability to grab a share. Thanks BYU! And now we have to cheer for Baylor (vomits a little bit).

Cold

I would think songs like it and "If We Were Vampires" are probably out for a minute.

I think ditching the "Democrat" label would help a lot. It's just become so damn poisoned. People like Democrat policies here, but they hate Democrats. We have a Democrat State Auditor who has been relatively popular, and is absolutely loathed by the Republican politicians. He's from a small town just down the road from me, is an avid hunter, and has never leaned too far into far left positions. He's really sharp, and could absolutely make our governor look like a fucking moron in a campaign. He didn't run against her in 2022, but I suspect he will in 2026. If the national party pumps money into his campaign, he has a real shot to win. He's proven he can win a state wide election, and if you actually hear the guy, you can tell he's not some urbanite trying to cut off dicks to win swim meets or whatever the RWNJ boogey man of the day is.

This is the most confounding part to me as a lifetime Iowan who is basically a Democrat, but doesn't embrace the label due to my chagrin with how the party handles it's business. Iowans aren't that fucking conservative. They just suddenly started voting that way a decade ago. When you talk to people in large swaths of the state, they support a litany of Democratic policies, don't harbor resentment to minorities or the gay community, but they've become utterly convinced that voting for Democrats at all will result in the most extreme and cartoonish examples of left wing excess. So now we have a Republican party at the state level absolutely running amok because the kind of people who are willing to sign up to be low level politicians these days are essentially psychotic zealots that have no fear of being voted out due to the letter behind their name. It will either take the Republicans doing something that tangibly causes rural people some serious pain (their attacks on public education might actually do this), or Des Moines and the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City corridors getting large enough and blue enough to override rural Iowa. One of the cruelest ironies in all of this, is the fact that rural Iowa is doing quite well in comparison to the rest of rural America, and that has lead to a rural population that's been fairly stable for 25 years, but is now enacting policies that will eventually doom them. Sorry for the rant. This shit pisses me off, and discussing it on the ISU boards is depressing as hell (most people there are even more liberal than me and are actively trying to encourage liberals to leave the state for greener political pastures, when that's the exact opposite thing we need).