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I'm just saying: when music videos stopped being short-form cinema was suspiciously close to when everything started going downhill in general.

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How many nights a decade ago did I walk home with "Wishing Well" by Airborne Toxic Event pounding in my soul.

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I cannot name the emotion that goes with the realization that I am in a situation that I made the perfect playlists for ten years ago...the last time it happened.

#Spotify

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Beaches and jets. The mechanic in the sun on the shore of the Adriatic.

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My experience as a youth in Hawaii was inherently different in some ways from Mr. Obama's. My years as a late teen and young adult in Alabama were decades after Bruce's upbringing in rural white America. I am not claiming that there is an exact comparison.

But listening to these two voices talk together about their development in their respective environments, the similarities and the differences between them, is the closest I think I have to there being a coherent representation in media of the two very distinct cultures that I grew up in, which I had to synthesize into who I came to be.

All thats missing is a Sailor telling deployment stories and you'd have me in a box.

But far more than my personal affinity for this presentation, I cannot recommend deeply enough that you listen to this podcast. It shows poignantly that age is no barrier to being able to use our modern understanding of social problems in discussion. Being a product of a time does not condemn you to always be bound to that time. These are the conversations we should be having in reflection.

Postscript: Iolani no ka Oi. All love for Mr. Obama, except for his tragic flaw of having gone to Punahou instead of being a Raider like the better among us were lol.

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“I’ll be waiting for you.  So if you come here, you’ll find me.  I promise.”

Final Fantasy VIII concept artwork from Final Fantasy 25th Memorial Ultimania Vol. 2 artbook

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Dear Public Transit - 

I’m so sorry.  I take back all the things I said.  I miss you.  I never meant for us to be apart for so long.  At first, just spending every day on the couch was good.  The loneliness was good.  The nobody sitting on top of me was good.  The distinct smell of non-urinated seats in my nose and the absence of insane mutterings in my ears were good.  But somehow, I miss them now. Please let me come back.

Yours,

Guy who hasn’t been anywhere in like 7 months.  Thanks Corona.

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Bringt mich heim...

🎶 country roads, take me home 

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"We regret to inform you your educational background does not qualify you for university entrance in this country."

So much for that then. Love that Alabama public school curriculum.

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I'm in the place I want to be, but it's sure as hell not the time.

#90s anime #back in the 90s #retro anime #anime

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Timeless Cool: Anthony Bourdain

“It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be”.

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‘strange-shores’

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“Day after day, I continued to rest my soul… and I really felt that I could become a normal swordsman.

Thank you for everything. I am a wanderer. I must be wandering again…” - Kenshin

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The second wife of one of my uncles is an awesome lady. First off, she puts up with a man who did 37 combined years of military service between enlisted and officer. Second, she's a Ph.d Marine Biologist who has worked for the governments of three countries, assisted as an advisor on movies, and helped lead research expeditions into the amazon. Oh, and the few times I make it to their house every 5 years or so, she has treasures for me that she's collected because she knows my love of naval history, and also delicious, delicious brownies for me to take home.

She's loving and intelligent. But tonight she sends me a doctored video on Facebook of Obama seeming to claim individuals can't govern themselves and must submit their will to a world order.

It took 3 seconds for me to google his quote, find the dozen articles debunking the video, and even the full undoctored video of the speech (and transcript) on C-SPAN.

I don't have a Ph.d. I don't even have a college degree. On paper, I'm the least successful in the entire family. I could see how the video was misleading. Why couldn't the professional scientist?

At least this dear aunt readily accepted my rebuttal. But how many had she already sent this video to without verifying it? Is she going to message all of them and tell them she was wrong? I doubt it.

Its depressing when even the people you expect to have a critical eye turn out to suffer from confirmation bias as bad as the rest.

#fake news