I’m not sure which is greater: my respect for the Ukrainian government and people fighting for their lives and freedom against the predations of that cheap punk commie thug Putin, or the disgust and shame I feel for the Biden-led feckless West who have done and will continue to do exactly fuck all about any of it until it is Far Too Late.  Whomever voted for this incompetent, incontinent, doddering old cretin should recuse themselves from any involvement in future elections because holy shit.
I am literally sickened by these events and our pusillanimous lack of response.  These are dark days that are only going to get darker under the so-called “leadership” of a completely corrupt and criminally incompetent administration.

N.P.: “Heart Shaped Box” – Hybrid

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All apologies and beggings of forgiveness, patient reader…I’ve been a bit occupied with familial obligations of late.  All is well, dear reader, and thanks for asking.  But yes…I’ve been unrealistically, Sisypheanly occupied.  I should be back more regularly soon.
Hats off to Spotify and Joe Rogan for standing strong against the moronic mob, and really (finally) knocking it on its ass.  See…that wasn’t so difficult, was it?

N.P.: “Never Gonna Rain” – Bryan Adams

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Perhaps the worst of the many loathsome and contemptible aspects of cancel culture is the egregious hypocrisy of the pathetic woke sheep who engage in it.  It is in the spirit of shining a light on the slimy undercarriages of such bullshit that we offer you the following quote from pathetic hippy and apparently now medical expert Neil Young in 1985, at the height of the AIDS epidemic:  “You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot [sic] behind the fuckin’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”
And now this no-talent hippy hack who openly advocated the avoidance of “faggots” because they’ll give you AIDS as solid public policy, wants to dictate what other people say about diseases and their treatments.  Keep on rockin’ in a free world, Neil, you miserable, irrelevant piece of ignorantly censorious shit.
The present batch of Americans who seem to care so little about free speech, and really the Constitution in general, will never cease to disgust me.

N.P.: “Fatso” – Warmduscher

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Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren pulled their music from Spotify.  Tens of fans were upset.  Twats.

N.P.: “Satan Never Sleeps” – Timi Yuro

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Neil Young:  I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.  Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.  I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform.  They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.

Spotify: No, seriously…who da fuck is Neil Young?

N.P.: “We The People” – Kid Rock

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“Unseasonably warm and dry.”  That’s how the weather idiots have been describing the anti-winter doldrums that we find ourselves in out here in Anhedonia County.  It was 70°F in Fecal Creek this weekend.  Middle of January…70 fucking °s!  Not a cloud in the sky.  It hasn’t rained in weeks, with no rain in the forecast.  Ripped off of another winter again.  We are displeased.  It just depresses the shit out of me.  I should look into moving to Norway.

N.P.: “Pumped Up Kicks (feat. Ralph Saenz)” – John Murphy

Just devastated to learn of Meat Loaf’s passing.  A truly legendary musician, singer, and actor, Meat Loaf was probably the first “rock star” to appear on my radar as a kid.  He made a relatively rare appearance on American television in the late 70s, and I was floored.  I don’t remember what show it was, but I remember the moment very clearly.  I remember he was one of two musicians appearing on TV at that time that my dad actually knew anything about (the other was Johnny Cash).  My dad told me that Meat had apparently suffered a nervous breakdown recently, which prompted me to ask, “What’s a nervous breakdown?”  I sat rapt, alternately looking at the TV screen and my dad as he explained.
Anyway, the world and it’s soundtrack are getting increasingly uninteresting as talents pass and are not replaced.

N.P.: “Bat Out of Hell” – Meat Loaf

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I feel like I’m fighting a four-front war lately.  Sure, it’s stressful but I kinda like it..kicking the shit out of all four fronts.

There was tentative talk about going to LA tonight for the Kimmel Show, but that’s not happening.  Alas.

N.P.: “Call Me Little Sunshine” – Ghost

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What an absurd couple of weeks it’s been.  Battered on the rocks of what is certainly one of the most brutal existential crises ever recorded, fighting a moronic government, writing books, building a pirate ship (this goddamn ship is going to be the death of me)…it’s been nuts.  Gotta get back to it….

N.P.: “Navras” – Juno Reactor