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anti-rec — bringing your gun to the coffee shop

So here I am working away at Starbucks, innocently surrounded by gentle folk drinking our lavender lattes and daintily scratching our diaries, and I look up and there's a guy — definitely not a cop, his lady was with him — waiting for his drink, with a handgun boldly displayed. Right in my face! Right in your face! Carrying openly like this is legal where I live and I don't doubt the dude checks all the boxes, had the necessary background check, law-abiding citizen, he's a good guy with a gun, yada yada yada, and so on, but still! Bringing it to the coffee shop! Why? It unnerves me because it seems (someone feel free to speak up with a counter perspective) as though the open carrier is doing so to make a statement, assert power, let others know: "Public Service Alert — I could kill you if I wanted to." Nothing about carrying a gun like that lowers the rhetorical emotional societal temperature. We do want to lower the temperature, right?

@mattshawsome

Oct 17, 2024

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do a little cowboy fast draw every now and then

perfect the sudden movement and point your finger guns with utmost accuracy and speed. keep people on their toes

@sequoia

Feb 8, 2024

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Put a nerf gun at my head and point it like im in La Haine

@snorlaxonzinc

Feb 13, 2024

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Songs Ohia: Magnolia Electric Co.

Blindsided by this, really sad. The list of Albini's productions is jaw-dropping. Magnolia Electric Company is one of the great pieces of post-industrial Americana, bleak and beautiful. Farewell Transmission is Jason Molina's most powerful recording, but the album (incl. outtakes) is stacked. Heavy & gorgeous, suitable for the moment.

@djt

May 8, 2024

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NYT: Williamsburg. What happened?

Tearing up right now instead of working. I moved to the city as the last of Williamsburg's artistic energy was spent, and I moved to the edge of the neighborhood after it was already hollowed out. God bless the few places that are still interesting: Spectacle, Union Pool, Ore Bar, Blue Sun, Miriam Gallery, The P.I.T., Baby's, etc. Are there places in NYC with a real artistic scene now, or did our new way of living end that possibility? Please don't say Hudson, there's no way I can learn to make furniture.

@djt

Jan 30, 2024

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Classic Albums: Steely Dan - aja

More of a look back on the making of the album, no footage from the actual recording, iirc. But great banter, good insights into the process. The Wilco doc about making Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is good and dramatic, too—I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.

@djt

Jan 25, 2024