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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 3h

That must be speer huh? His book was great. It is weird that he escaped execution though. He didn't just have harmless architecture jobs.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Also "locker room talk"

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Is this a joke or a product for autistic people or both?

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Isn't there a ribbon cutting for a new car dealership somewhere?

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Never mind this is it obviously. The great question this video asks: is it meant to be ironic? I don't think so. Also that keyboard solo is awful in the most perfect way imaginable. You can't fake that kind of honky squareness.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

What is that reference from? Whatever it is, I have seen it, or else we both dreamt it, or I am having a stroke.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

My FB for instance is just my friends and autism or music groups. I never see anything like what people talk about.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

I haven't been on there in probably a decade but if its like it used to be (though I don't think it is) you don't have to see any garbage you don't want to see, just based on who you follow. So maybe it just took longer for some people's feeds to deteriorate to nazi moron level.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

I have been thinking recently about how reading that book might give you some insight into what those people think is up. It never really occurred to me that you can read it as a work of fiction, or for research, to help you understand the culture better.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4h

In my experience, if you read the bible as a non-xtian, you will have read more of the bible than 90% of xtians.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 5h

Wow is that ever better than Spotify. Michael Jackson couldn't even demand those numbers.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 5h

Hey guess what that's not Marilyn Monroe. That's a cartoonist arrangement of pixels that looks like it is made from compressed gel. Marilyn Monroe can be in zero more movies, what with her being dead.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 5h

It is my profound hope that v*nice is only three years away from being as irrelevant as whoever Clinton's VP choice was and whoever Harris's VP choice was.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 5h

Can we just take a moment to reinforce the fact that white people may not use the black power salute? Many white politicians need to be reminded of this.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 5h

I was in the Munich airport last month and I heard a kid from the Midwest say to his brother "bruh, does bruh have his passport?" There were were only two of them. That was 2nd person singular bruh.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 8h

It's interesting to hear how people's fortunes have shifted over the years. RS gave led zeppelin I a one-star review when it came out.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 8h

I remember reading about him, that he was basically a fantasy baseball camp musician: he had enough money to be able to hire all his favorite musicians to make an album with him.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 8h

Nicky Hopkins is one of the lamest musicians I have ever heard.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 8h

It's really interesting-- you can tell the singer is a poseur from the first line but there's nothing wrong with the music.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 8h

Holy shit the start of that first tune is actually heavy. I can't remember who's on this-- I really wanted to hear it when I was 16. Jimmy Page, Steve Winwood, Carmen Appice, Dick Heckstall-Smith, etc ?

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 8h

Do they still sound like they used to sound or have they evolved over the past thirty years?

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 11h

Omg that's disgusting! Unbelievable.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 12h

I could not disagree with this more.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 1d

One of my non-stop laff riots with kids is making up state names for the ones we can't remember in "fifty nifty...". "Alabama, Alaska, Aritania, Amizino", etc.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 1d

Next stop: planets!

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