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Musician, writer, teacher, misfit among misfits. Wry and dry. Invisibility superpowers. www.jamesauburn.com
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I got one of these as change for something recently, and I had no idea they put Nixon on an American currency. Freakin' NIXON? Well, several other Presidents came along and lowered the bar for corruption and abuse of power even further, so maybe he seems like a statesman to some people these days.

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I made a video for YouTube, and it's strictly for my fellow fans of 80's funk, R&B, AOR, and Japanese city pop. It's a supercut (do people still make those?) chronicling the ubiquity of a certain rhythmic figure in funky music from that era. Watch before it inevitably gets taken down for copyright.

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“Wow okay - thanks Honey Dew, you buncha dicks” - Rose Dewitt Bukater

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McDonald's should bring back this commercial - it's still funny (made one of my 11-year-old piano students laugh). For a year or two there, kids in my generation couldn't hear "Fur Elise" without thinking of this song.

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Tell me this doesn't seem like an artist that just came out yesterday. This band, with this look, this sound, this hook, would be the biggest sensation *right now*. FORTY-THREE $!@##$%^@ YEARS AGO

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Well, the year's off to a flying start...

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Jimmy Carter gave up his beloved peanut farm when he took office just to avoid the *appearance* of a conflict of interest. Can you imagine a President being like that today?

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Jimmy Carter was a Christian politician who actually sought to model the teachings of Christ even after leaving politics, rather than using Christianity as a political bludgeon against his opponents or as a tool of supremacy in the godforsaken "culture wars."

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Europeans watching Americans fix their healthcare system with gun violence:

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If Frank Zappa and George Carlin were alive today, they'd be cranky reactionary Bill Maher-style anti-wokesters. Search your heart, you know it's true.

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What the hell happened to all the dog and cat eating? Is that still going on or nah?

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Vermont and New Hampshire are like your white-haired, Birks-wearing, "Visualize Whirled Peas" hippie aunt and your gun-collecting, helmet-laws-are-tyranny, blue-lives-matter uncle sitting next to each other at Thanksgiving and agreeing not to speak.

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On the highway the other day, I saw a big “FAITH FAMILY FREEDOM - AMERICA FIRST” bumper sticker… on a Prius. That’s definitely how Don Henley would've written that “Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” line in 2023.

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When someone writes "I don't care what side of the political fence you're on, this is funny!"... it's not going to be.

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"You were once shoved headfirst through someone's vagina. Don't act so dignified." - xkcd

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James here. Musician, writer, teacher. From Mississippi, currently in Massachusetts. Still got the "y'all". Trying (and failing) to keep my vinyl collection under control. So... cool, somewhere else to go. Maybe I'll share some music I like, and a few pithy li'l bon mots. Who knows.

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