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4th&Five

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  1. Spent 24 hours in perfect weather in Minneapolis and had to come back to this shit.
  2. I enjoyed all but one of the beers I had. Bartenders and I were laughing about the randomness of the crowd with Paul McCartney fans, Nebraska fans and Eagles fans all converging on downtown.
  3. The party of law and order!
  4. May do ABW. Bummed they moved it to Sprinkle Valley but I don’t think I’ve missed more than one or two.
  5. I was very conflicted when I heard Nate say this because I find him terrible as a performer.
  6. Very well done.
  7. Town Hall Brewing in Minneapolis
  8. Doubt anyone kills it because the writing is horrible.
  9. Ha. It’s actually pretty short. Without the credits I think they’re mostly under 40 minutes.
  10. Diplomat season was good. I think cutting it down to six episodes like last season would have made it better.
  11. we kinda need you more now than ever though.
  12. HH Spaghetti fold over. A staple of my childhood.
  13. Well, he did pardon a guy for killing a protester.
  14. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Thursday he will deploy Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Texas National Guard members to Austin ahead of a planned ‘No Kings’ protest at the State Capitol Saturday afternoon. The governor claimed the protest was “antifa-linked” but did not elaborate. “Violence and destruction will never be tolerated in Texas,” Abbott said. “Today, I directed the Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas National Guard to deploy all necessary law enforcement officials and resources to ensure the safety of Austin residents. Texas will deter criminal mischief and work with local law enforcement to arrest anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property.” The governor said troopers, special agents, Texas Rangers and Texas National Guard soldiers would be “surged” to Austin. The governor’s office did not say how many personnel it planned to send. “These law enforcement officers and soldiers will be supported by aircraft and other tactical assets,” a news release from Abbott’s team said. “DPS’ Homeland Security Division is actively monitoring the planned protest in Austin, as well as any other potential violent demonstrations across the state. DPS will investigate any links to known terrorist organizations and swiftly bring charges against those who engage in unlawful activity.”
  15. Rory Scovel’s special from last year was my favorite in a long time. Going to see him in January and can’t wait to see his new stuff. Jeselnik is still great as well but his specials take a long time to write. A lot of these guys just want clicks and hope to go viral for being fake edgy.
  16. He’s almost 80 and obese. He’s definitely leaving and probably the way most of us prefer.
  17. Bradley Whitford joins the cast this season and season 4 starts filming next month. Good stuff.
  18. And he didn’t get the Nobel?
  19. It was four days after Father’s Day. Midway through the Drive-By Truckers‘ informal late-night acoustic show in their hometown of Athens, Georgia, their 23-year-old guitarist and budding songwriter named Jason Isbell decided to premiere a song he’d just written as a Father’s Day gift for his dad. That song was called “Outfit,” and the performance that followed that night at the Flicker Bar — the first time, as far as the band can remember, that Isbell ever performed the song — would end up becoming a piece of Drive-By Truckers’ history. The live “Outfit” is a revelation: You can hear the audience react in real time to the first few lines, cheering along as Isbell sets the scene of a young couple conceiving a child in the back seat of a Mustang in the first verse. In the second verse, you can hear Isbell still tinkering with the verse melody. By the time he’s singing about “a bucket of wealthy man’s paint,” the crowd roars back in affirmation. “The perspective of that song is maybe not as earnest as a lot of people take it to be,” Isbell told the writer Stephen Deusner for the reissue’s liner notes. “I’m not trying to tell everyone how they should raise their children. I’ve written a lot of advice songs, because that is a very Southern tradition to me. But not all that advice is good advice, because I’m trying to create characters and paint a picture of people. Looking back, the arrangement’s so bizarre. It loops back in on itself in a really weird way. But I was trying to write a very particular kind of song for FAME to pitch to country singers, and I wanted to do the exact opposite of that with the Truckers. I was like, Let’s just make a mess. Let’s just roll around in it and let the song go wherever it wants to go.”
  20. Speaking of James:
  21. I love Tim (and what he and Zach write). This will only get weirder and I can’t wait.
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