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“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves, man?”
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
There has to be a significant number of people who, knowingly or not, pivot their investment decisions off headlines in Apple’s Stocks app
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
Hand churned butter from France called Le Gaslonde My life is different after having it
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
I dropped X for Nostr a little over a month ago and since then: I’ve written and published five essays on Springsteen’s album Nebraska, five to go I’ve read Jim Webb’s Born Fighting as well as Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War (recommend both) Put a dent in Atlas Shrugged My bandmates and I are gonna record an EP at the end of February and I’m playing way more guitar than any time since I was a teenager I’m upstairs reading in bed with my wife before she falls asleep way more often I get all the news I need from the Nostr report, to paraphrase Paul Simon. I’m not a technical person; I just enjoy writing, reading and playing music, so I’m indebted to the people who are making this thing happen: @fiatjaf @ODELL @calle and the ego death folks like @Lyn Alden and @Jeff Booth . There are a bunch more who I don’t know yet but I’m gonna zap you when I figure out who you are. You’re making my life even better, so thank you.
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
I used to know someone whose dad was this reactionary, red-faced guy who responded with anger to stuff all the time and was very easily perturbed by things not going his way. I could never figure out at the time (2015-2020) how this guy was such a die hard Democrat. Temperamentally he was like the bloviating conservatives that ruled the day when I was a kid. But the Dems have largely become the party for ossified thinking and reactionaries. I hope that changes and we get some real dynamism across the whole spectrum of American politics.
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Pulled from a comments section for Checkonchain GM
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
Watched the Dennis Hopper film Out of the Blue tonight. Good lawd
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
It was a circuitous path to get to the things I’m trying to learn about now in terms of politics and philosophy and so on. I was way into Marxism in school, and I used to get embarrassed about that. I see it now as something I fell for, and I wonder if I’d been handed a copy of The Fountainhead or something instead of the Communist Manifesto (or RATM’s first album), if I’d fallen as hard in the other direction. Anyway I’m glad I am where I am and that I’m not gonna stay here forever. We have to let each other grow.
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Phil Mustang 1 year ago
GM Nostr Check out Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” today if you get a chance