I dropped X for Nostr a little over a month ago and since then: I’ve written and published five essays on Springsteen’s album Nebraska, five to go I’ve read Jim Webb’s Born Fighting as well as Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War (recommend both) Put a dent in Atlas Shrugged My bandmates and I are gonna record an EP at the end of February and I’m playing way more guitar than any time since I was a teenager I’m upstairs reading in bed with my wife before she falls asleep way more often I get all the news I need from the Nostr report, to paraphrase Paul Simon. I’m not a technical person; I just enjoy writing, reading and playing music, so I’m indebted to the people who are making this thing happen: @fiatjaf @ODELL @calle and the ego death folks like @Lyn Alden and @Jeff Booth . There are a bunch more who I don’t know yet but I’m gonna zap you when I figure out who you are. You’re making my life even better, so thank you.

I used to know someone whose dad was this reactionary, red-faced guy who responded with anger to stuff all the time and was very easily perturbed by things not going his way. I could never figure out at the time (2015-2020) how this guy was such a die hard Democrat. Temperamentally he was like the bloviating conservatives that ruled the day when I was a kid. But the Dems have largely become the party for ossified thinking and reactionaries. I hope that changes and we get some real dynamism across the whole spectrum of American politics.

Stringer Bell changed, man View quoted note →

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Pulled from a comments section for Checkonchain GM

Watched the Dennis Hopper film Out of the Blue tonight. Good lawd

I read @TheyHODL ‘s note yesterday about Bitcoin being alive and had to go walk the dogs around the neighborhood just to think about it View quoted note →

It was a circuitous path to get to the things I’m trying to learn about now in terms of politics and philosophy and so on. I was way into Marxism in school, and I used to get embarrassed about that. I see it now as something I fell for, and I wonder if I’d been handed a copy of The Fountainhead or something instead of the Communist Manifesto (or RATM’s first album), if I’d fallen as hard in the other direction. Anyway I’m glad I am where I am and that I’m not gonna stay here forever. We have to let each other grow.

GM Nostr Check out Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” today if you get a chance

@ODELL POTENTIAL NEW WAY TO PUSH NOSTR TO THE MASSES: “COME TALK W @Lyn Alden ABOUT GUNS” PEOPLE WOULD DIG IT View quoted note →

GN occhi arly ome

So is HODLing View quoted note →

Squash is about to take over the international sporting world View quoted note →

GM. Here’s some proof of why you don’t need to go anywhere but Nostr to see what’s up View quoted note →

GN Nostr You da best

Good afternoon

@ODELL said something on a recent @RABBIT HOLE RECAP w @MartyBent about zaps training people to denominate their thinking in sats. It’s true. Got zapped1,000 sats with the message “zap it on” earlier today and dammit if I’m not ready to run through a wall and bestow all the sats in my wallet to my Nostr kinfolk GN

Watched the Bowie movie The Linguini Incident tonight. Seems like there were a weird glom of years between the 80s and the 90s that existed in a kind of cultural netherworld and then Nevermind came out

One last thing that got me from Pat Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War - Buchanan calls Winston’s singular focus on defeating Hitler “Ahab-like” at one point. Pretty much sums it all up

If a light turns yellow in front of me today I’m just gonna slow down