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Luther M. Siler
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#REVIEW: Dark Matter, by Pearl Jam
A secret about me: my opinions cannot always be trusted.
I was wandering through old posts the other day, as I am occasionally known to do, and I came across a post where I described Pearl Jam’s last album, Gigaton, as “forgettable” and had very high praise for Binaural, an album that I just said was possibly my least favorite of their albums. So … sometimes my opinions change! This is a thing…
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Well, this is new
I’m not watching youth hockey on a Friday night, YOU’RE watching youth hockey on a Friday night!
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Jesus Christ you annoying little shits STOP TOUCHING EACH OTHER
Teenage boys need to be sent to an island, far away from everyone else, and not released until …
… hell, just not released. Send all the teenage boys to an island. Far away from me. Forever. I have been a middle school teacher for a very long time and this is the most exhausting spring in my memory. I’m going to bed.
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Consider this a preview, I guess
Yes, I know I haven’t reviewed the Pearl Jam album yet.
I fucking love it. I’ve been sitting on writing about it to see if the shine wears off and it hasn’t. This is their best album in a long, long time– definitely since Avocado and probably before that.
But I’ve been shaky and nauseous since I got home this afternoon after a day of feeling fine, and we’re still doing state testing tomorrow so…
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#REVIEW: The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, by Taylor Swift
It’s boring.
There, I said it.
I could make this post a lot more complicated and detailed if I wanted to, I suppose. I have had a lot of thoughts about Taylor Swift over the years, and I am fully aware that Ms. Swift has no reason to care in even a hypothetical sense about what I think. She’s a billionaire and she’s more talented and influential than I will ever be at anything and I’m not the…
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Taking the night off
I have managed to set it up so that I have no lesson planning to do this week, and no photocopying to do in the morning, which means I came home and died on the couch, and now I want to go die on the couch some more. Go hug somebody.
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My Boomer moment
My wife and I went to Best Buy last night– I tell you, date night has gotten really lazy lately– not because we particularly needed anything from there but because they’d sent me an email that I hadn’t used my card in a long enough time that they were going to close it out soon if I didn’t use it again. I don’t have any particular need for anything from them right now, but that card has come in…
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#assholes#best buy#boomers#brick and mortar#complaining#customer service#electronics#idiocy#retail#shopping#whining#wtf
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In which Taylor Swift did it again
I pre-ordered Midnights, Taylor Swift’s last studio album, only to discover when I got up on release day that she’d released a previously-unannounced deluxe “3 AM” edition with several extra tracks three fucking hours after the base version of the album released. She waited three hours and then released an entire new version of the album while I have to assume the vast majority of the people who…
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#assholes#business#capitalism#digital music#MP3s#music#pre-releases#preorders#special editions#Taylor Swift#The Tortured Poets Department
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In which I am free
I was really hoping for a more dramatic picture.
Sometime in February of 2020– I could have sworn I posted about it, but hell if I can find it– I applied for a $30,000, six-year personal loan through Discover. I used the funds to pay off about 90% or so of my credit cards– so, to be clear, someone handed me thirty grand and that wasn’t enough money to pay off all of my credit cards. The payments…
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#car payments#credit cards#debt#finance#life#loan forgiveness#loans#money#mortgage#personal loans#pslf#retirement#student loans
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Mean but true
My favorite moment at my kid’s Spring Concert tonight was realizing I recognized a piece of music they were playing, asking my watch to recognize it basically for no reason at all, and being greeted with an error screen I had never seen before– “No Music Detected.”
No Music Detected being tossed at me during a middle school band concert is a little on the nose for a smartwatch music app, don’t…
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#band#choir#concerts#middle school#music#orchestra#school concerts#smartwatches#soundhound#technology#wtf
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On the Theatrical Experience
It hit us sometime this week that we hadn’t even considered the idea that our son might want to join us at the Pearl Jam Dark Matter Theatrical Experience. He didn’t, and he wouldn’t have enjoyed it, but it got me briefly looking at tickets again, which entertained me greatly. Our showing, the sole one available when the email went out from Ten Club in the first place, was nearly sold out, with…
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Indispensable Pearl Jam songs
There’s a new Pearl Jam album out this week, and unless something has gone very wrong, by the time you see this I should be sitting in the dark with a bunch of other flannel-clad nineties dorks listening to it. They’re doing this limited-engagement one-night-only movie theater thing, where they play the album, which is called Dark Matter, in complete darkness, and then play it again with what…
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#1990s#90s#alternative music#dark matter#fandom#music#obsessions#pearl jam#rankings#rock and roll#studio albums#the greatest band in the world
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#REVIEW: Silver Under Nightfall, by Rin Chupeco
Yes, that’s right, three book reviews in three days, although this one is going to be shorter. Rin Chupeco is kind of a known quantity around here; this is the … sixth? of their books that I’ve read, and I’ve enjoyed all of them and at least one or two have made my end-of-year list. And, honestly, Silver Under Nightfall sat on my unread shelf for long enough that by the time I picked it up to…
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#book review#book reviews#books#court of wanderers#fantasy#illumicrate#LGBTQ#reading#reviews#rin chupeco#romantasy#silver under nightfall#vampires#wtf
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#REVIEW: The Sins on Their Bones, by Laura R. Samotin
This is going to be One of Those Reviews, I think. I am beginning this review at 7:30 PM on Saturday, which, you will notice, was yesterday. You may have noticed that yesterday-which-for-me-is-still-today’s post is also a book review.
I am writing the second book review of the day because I woke up this morning, read the last two hundred pages of To Cage a God, wrote a review, ate lunch, took a…
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#ARCs#book reviews#book-review#fantasy#judaism#kabbalah#Laura R. Samotin#LGBTQ#publicity#reading#reviews#russia#The Sins on Their Bones
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#REVIEW: To Cage a God, by Elizabeth May
“I don’t understand reviews sometimes,” he said, as the first sentence of his book review. I have received two books through my new Illumicrate subscription– one, Fathomfolk, was already on my radar, but Elizabeth May’s To Cage a God was a book I’d never heard of by an author I’d never heard of. Which sounds like snark, but I hope it’s obvious that it isn’t– there are lots and lots of books, as…
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#blind boxes#books#dragons#Elizabeth May#fantasy#illumicrate#magic#reading#reviews#romantasy#To Cage a Dragon
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Tomorrow, I swear
Been sitting on the couch reading and the time got away from me. Any big plans this weekend?
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Taking tonight off
If there was ever a night where the best thing to do was sit on the couch and scroll endlessly, this was that night. I’m going to grab a book but reading may require just a bit too much from my brain tonight.
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