marcmorehouse.bsky.social
Recovering sportswriter. Substacking. Gardening. Budtending. Living in the Driftless. And totally into gerunds, apparently. Be elastic. https://open.substack.com/pub/marc135
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I always thought everyone had a following and enough people followed enough of us to have a general understanding of what was going on. My one ache is the pod audience. I was just figuring that shit out. So maybe the timing was a little off.
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That’s the trailer.
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😂😂😂 Now there’s a show I need to watch.
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Between moving grand dudes on their respective ways to goodnight.
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The imagery of that song is a march toward something and away from something else. He’s laying down the rules and they all lead toward a new view. “The real truth about it is my kind of life’s no better off … if it’s got a map or if it’s lost.”
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My next tatt will be his music, centering on the line “Harmony onward, friend.” (From the song “Lonesome Valley.”)
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And then you read his bio and it makes sense. He was fighting so much upstairs and says that without saying it.
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I did say a whiff of hope. “The real truth about it is, we’re all supposed to try.”
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OK, you’re ready. When you hit the bottom, this is the next level below. The songs are born from mental deterioration and yet leave a bright bit of hope. Really, they do.
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Thank you! You know how everyone has an innate talent? Something that just comes out and is great? For me that’s making fun of the Bears. Still, I could stand a day or a week or month of Bear fan drunkenness after a Super Bowl.
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Jesse loves making coffee with me. He smells the beans and is so excited every morning.
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The best part of February was when someone on Twooter posted a live link to the Drive-By Truckers’ homecoming shows in Athens.
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I don’t know if you followed me on Twooter, but I did say there that I would be happy for my Bear fan friends when/if they ever win a Super Bowl. (Earth did open up and swallow me, but spit me out and said it just wanted to show me what would happen.)
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I’ll bid a “mostly.”
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The Dead helped 420 phrase off the ground.
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I’m on it. Meditation helps, it really does. Very much with falling asleep. I was surprised.
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California sober it is. A friend told me alcohol had an affect on my spirit. That got my attention. I want to at least try to have good spirit. Cue the weed.
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I quit drinking and I’m pretty sure my liver has more time to find bile. To my understanding, that’s how the human body works.
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That makes two of us.
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❤️💚❤️💚
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I had a dorm neighbor play this every damn Monday. Palatable today? No.
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I used to like winter.
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Remember my first visit to Carver. I think it was 1983. My dad took my brother and I to the Big Ten wrestling tournament. I think it was the first big event Carver hosted. I remember thinking the Banachs were super heroes, like a pair of Things. The vastness when you enter does work, but the steps.
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And it’s not fair to compare any Iowa basketball element to the monumental crack in the universe that was CC. Not a fair thought from me on that.
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You ran the wrong way with this one. Nowhere in the OG post do I blame the men’s basketball program’s mediocrity on Carver. But you’re right about MG pre-CC. I did not give that enough respect. That was good shit. This all can be true and Carver can still have the curb appeal of a mini-mall.
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Do not disagree. Carver is symbolic, in the aesthetic sense. It is not the reason. Every Iowa basketball coach since Raveling has needed to recruit better talent.
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He’s done everything right. The program is stuck in 1983.
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Let’s put Bill in a safety deposit box.
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Tell the knitters to stay the fuck home.
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Not even in general, it is one of life’s truest truisms that when sports people get together, they are total asshole bullies. “Ted Lasso” is fiction. Reality is they are odious predators.
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Totally forgotten after Clark. Sorry, that’s how sports work.
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Generational player changed the program. 12 people gave a shit before Clark.
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I’d say Illinois values hoops a lot more than Iowa does. The results accentuate that. Chicago helps and Iowa’s superiority in football soothes, but Illinois basketball is here (hand over head) and Iowa is here (hand below the waist).
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The arena is symbolic. Your program is next to the dental lot of life. Your program might as well start five fucking dentists.
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Oh man, that’s gorgeous! Enjoy your trip, my friend. I’m really glad I made that trip.
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They’ll justify it to their graves, which will be soon after Iowa’s cancerous shit water takes them to White Jesus.
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Fritos, tho!