danhiggins.bsky.social
Media, Higher Ed, and a third thing.
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Shout out to Randy from Northern Music and Video.
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Finally, we called a MUSIC STORE and hummed a few bars to a guitar sales guy we sort of knew. It worked!
The song, btw, was Sunny, by Bobby Hebb. He wanted to use the chord progression to practice improvising.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvY...
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in college, we had a friend from Japan whose English wasn't so great. He was a brilliant blues and rock guitarist though, and was studying classical guitar.
He wanted us to hear a song but couldn't remember much of it. It drove us all nuts because we wanted to crack the code. ..
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"Where are the leakers, journalists, etc.?" they ask. Yes, please. Why can we find no, you know ... I guess "evidence" would be the word?
Almost there, Rasmussen Reports. You alllllmost got it.
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The dream is for all our iCloud accounts endlessly emailing each other without our intervention or knowledge, while we revert back to a more feral state.
But then there will be more warlords.
Anyway, I think I just had a libertarian sex fantasy
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Oh, well I’ll be dipped. This is a pic of the actual rag man and - possibly - the actual horse my father harassed.
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Re: Petty Carping. There's no feeling quite like opening a vein to finish a piece of personal writing and publish it, only for someone to send you a helpful note that they don't believe in splitting infinitives.
It's very much: "Otherwise, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
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Yeah the T9 texting dialect is already ancient history. “R U there?” Is the equivalent of someone who puts their ball cap on backwards and sits backward on a chair to have a rap session with youngsters.
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This is miserable a*****e erasure
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well don't leave us hanging !
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The rat is making supper while hiding under your hat, yes?
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Oh, you must also have a tween son.
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When he says, "Remember, you worship one," he is revealing more than he perhaps intended.
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I never understood that movie or its appeal.
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Hey! I'm "casting a wide net," as they say. So yes, teaching and other options are on my list.
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“Our brand is like a sudden, violent fall that may leave you permanently disabled!” I don’t know, maybe they can workshop it a bit
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Well that means that despite any "deficits," you have developed strategies that work for you. I have done this over time, but it's hard to fight what FEELS like a natural inclination toward chaos sometimes.
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Oh, I graduated in 1999 (I dropped out of college for a few years), and to this day I think my mom has doubts about whether I actually graduated. Reason? I still lacked some important life skills in those days and didn't fill out the form to get my name printed in the commencement program.
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OK, I see this happening every year and I love it. Someone knows how to do it, and then a little line of friends and acquaintances forms while they help. I enjoy going to commencement.
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NICE.
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This is confusing to me, too. I teach undergrads, so I hear people talking about their "retro" fashion for the 90s and 2000s. I recognize some 90s looks, but if people started wearing shoe boxes on their heads and said it was. "2000s Throwback look" I would probably take their word for it.
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This might have something to do with the fact that I turned 25 in 2000. (like, it's just about me getting older and not having time to soak in "the culture" like I had in college.)
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Bet I could score B+/A- on a test to identify what decade of the 20th Century something happened in - like: Is this photo from the 50s, 60s, or 70s? You'd probably find that easy too, right?
But I'm not sure how well I could distinguish fashion, entertainment or photos from 2004, 2014, or 2024.
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Oh, for fuck's sake. That sucks.
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Yes, you would have fit right in.
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Aw. This makes me nostalgic. Two girls in my neighborhood who were besties made this their entire personality for a few years in late elementary/early middle school. No one minded, it was wholesome.
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Mr. Holmes has depth beyond my imagining. Good for him.
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Oh my God.
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You should take this down so you can make McSweeney's pay you to publish it. Or Daily Shouts.
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I hope so. It's hard to believe any transgression or lie in this case actually matters. I would love for it to matter.
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“Chat with your documents! Argue with your toothbrush! Receive loving criticism from your toaster! Ask your floor lamp to the prom.”
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I agree, you are not <actually> old (and neither am I).
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Same! (Late forties)
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Oh, that is comforting because I assumed you were one of the Young-Youngs. My son is in sixth grade, so he is still using hand-me-down slang that sounds somewhat familiar to me. I don't need Google Translate quite yet.