Now in my 6th decade, I’ve developed some solid personal rules over the years. These rules are:
- Be patient.
- Be kind.
- Be happy.
- Be open-minded.
- Listen before speaking.
- Be a truth teller.
- Don’t put up with anyone’s bullshit.
- Strive to live a consequential life.
Thanks for reading.
Lake Champlain #VT #Vermont
Remember, my dudes, if you spend any amount of time worried about being seen as an "alpha male," you've already revealed yourself as the most craven, status-anxious aglet-huffer in the entire tri-state area
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35 years ago today, Sonic Youth released their sixth studio album “Goo” featuring singles "Kool Thing" "Disappearer" and "Dirty Boots"
44 years ago today
Brian Gay, Henry Rollins, John Stabb and Ian Mackaye backstage at a Dead Kennedys show, Irving Plaza, New York City, April 24, 1981
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory #otd
I will occasionally repost this.
I wish the Democrats in congress would stop pointing their fingers and saying, “See, see, we told you!” and actually start fighting back. A bully only understands knuckle sandwiches. Yelling at the bully just makes them feel good about what they did.
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown (Live Concert Video 1984)
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #blackflag #nervousbreakdown #history #punkrockhistory
I think there is going to be a Red Rural Recession and soon if all the cuts continue as is
All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states.
Their finances will be turned upside
One of the problems with lying to people and getting them to accept your dishonesty and disinformation as truth is that after a while you might start thinking that their misguided beliefs are a mandate for your own actions, leading you, and them, into a deep, dark pit of your own creation.
The Minutemen onstage and backstage at Irving Plaza, New York City, October 26, 1985
Photos by Rick McGinnis
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #theminutemen #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory
48 years ago today
Iggy Pop kicked off at the North American leg of The Idiot World Tour at Le Plateau Theatre, Montreal, Canada, with David Bowie playing keyboards and backing vocals, March 13, 1977
Photo by Richard McCaffrey
#iggypop #DavidBowie #history #punkrockhistory #otd
the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
I’m completely comfortable. Why do you ask? #dogs
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
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"I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others. I hope that a message calling for dignity, respecting dignity, honesty, humility, and kindness is resonating with people. I'm grateful for that." – Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde #NOH8
We live in interesting times. The next two years in the US are going to be a test of the belief that you have to hit rock bottom before you can find your way out of the hole you’re in. As painful as it will be, it might be the only way for our country to get back on the right track. #thoughts
Picture of a hand holding a mug with Henry Rollins face on it.
Morning! ☕️
How to be a grown up at work. Replace “f.ck you” with “ok, great”. Meme
Returned home from our Christmas Holiday to find that our daughter had hid 100 tiny frogs throughout the house. I both appreciated the challenge, and thoroughly enjoyed watching my adult daughter giggle incessantly as I accepted the challenge.
There are no bad ideas; there are only great ideas that go horribly wrong
