Joab Jackson
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Thinking about those beans… @joab_jackson
The Mothership
Joined May 2020
I prowled Bushwick, my footsteps instinctively leading to all my usual haunts, only to find them locked up, devoid of merriment. It was the evening of March 17, 2020, the first day of COVID lockdown...
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Like a zombie, I trudged from one Bushwick bar to another, only to find them all shuttered.
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This century-old manifesto, written by H. Besser and translated from who-knows-what-language, stands as a sharp, prophetic rebuke to the modern age of doomscrolling, proving that while technology evolves, the war against a frittered mind remains eternal.
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"I would become someone who did not bend to the will of fate, and the stories she was named after..." -- Jenny Tinghui Zhang, "Four Treasures on the Sky" https://t.co/vaQO8884o7
#quotes
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"Harry threw back his head and laughed. It was rich, Centurion laughter. It sounded uncontrolled and brutal in the confined space of the room." --Agatha Christie, "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" #quote
https://t.co/BKP4gc2rE0
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"It was only when you left it alone did a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war..."--Denis Johnson, "Train Dreams" https://t.co/6bqapoTvAl
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"The honorarium 'Knight' roughly translates to overweight, alcoholic bureaucrat who spends his days making new laws to oppress the poor and his nights drinking and getting pegged. " https://t.co/WaUVtWcr6D
#DungeonCrawlerCarl
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Sister Paul was FIERCE: "I've been around the sun 104 whole times and nobody explains nothing to me. I've read the book on not being explained to. That's called Being an Old Colored Woman, sir." https://t.co/JRSPxFsUqz
#DeaconKingKong #JamesMcBride
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“Murakami doesn’t regard himself as a masterly prose stylist or a brilliant storyteller. In his telling, his one unique skill is his ability to travel between worlds and report back.”
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The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters.
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I typed "Träd Gräs och Stenar" into YouTube and this is what came up. https://t.co/mcoQxT4tNX
#Swedish #Progrock #Psychedelic #Rock
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""Newspaper stories were supposed to keep the reader informed about the world, not to immerse him in its agony"--Russel Baker
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The Latino S. Tendies rip you didn’t know you needed in 2026: https://t.co/u99d3AG6WU
#TheMainliners #SoCal #punk
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.@magooggie is coming up through the #countryMusic circuit, but it’s her epic cover slowed-down cover of Blink-182’s “Adam’s Song” that gets me the most. Grey Eagle, Nashville
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When your in the south and play Tyler Childers’ “Lady May,” everyone will sing along — @magooggie at the Grey Eagle, Asheville
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Maggie Antone covering “Eastbound & Down” gives some serious Sally Field vibes… #CountryMusic, Grey Eagle, Asheville
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It’s the aural equivalent of “Smell my finger” and gives the FCC the justification to hand the spectrum over to some Right Wing Christian Corporation
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.@WFMU DJs still play songs at the wrong speed thinking they are clever… It’s just a juvenile look for a station asking for support.
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Recessionary indicator: @LittleDebbie Christmas cakes are hot this year. I can’t even buy boxes of them at the local supermarket. They’ve all been opened and the individual cakes are being sold at $1.69 each
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