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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 1h

The ophthalmologist’s receptionist told me there’s a copay. I asked if she gets a cut. She says no, have you had any exposure to the measles? I go you need to take 10 percent from everyone who comes through here. Stay somewhere warm in January. Go fishing. She says the doctor will see me shortly.

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 2h

Caribou no longer comps your plain black coffee when you buy a bag of beans and Chuck Schumer just let it happen

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 12h

I recorded some when I was in college and it was very fun. No plans atm

Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 12h

I took a songwriting class last night. Went back for another finger style guitar lesson tonight. I love this shit. You hear about middle-aged guys trying new things and rediscovering their joie de vivre. I’m telling you, you can be one of those guys.

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 14h

My wife told me about a gal she knows who married a man by the name of Balz and I feel like I’m gonna laugh for six days.

Balz!

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Do you gotta call it the Bodet?

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking about taking the second half home but now I’ll finish it here. Potential sogginess ain’t it.

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 1d

I read about North Star Deli at @racketmn.com last week and had to get the Dino Italian for lunch today. Thank you, @biketrouble.bsky.social, I’m a freak for fried eggplant on a sandwich.

racketmn.com/5-things-to-...

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 2d

Freeze his cards. Change the locks at the White House. Serve him the divorce papers at his golf course. Make him set up a new residence in one of his dad’s former slums with his sons Beavis and Butthead. Tell him to get a fuckin job.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

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Reposted by Brandon Kennedy

daviss @chaddavis.photography · 2d

They did that river drawdown 5 years ago, what a magical couple days that was on the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 2d

A 17th-century English engraver and illustrator named Everhardus Kickius (hell yeah) shows up early on. This has nothing to do with banjos but my man’s work with watercolor kicks hard. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/t...

Aloe, from an album originally containing 305 drawings and prints of plants; with long, fleshy, spiky leaves and roots below
Watercolour and bodycolour, over graphite

A primate, in an album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds; brown, with a red face, seated on the ground to right, looking to front, holding food (?) in its right hand
Watercolour, over graphite

Two tufted apes, possibly baboons, in an album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds; one seated grooming the other
Watercolour, touched with bodycolour, heightened with white

Aloe, from an album originally containing 305 drawings and prints of plants; with long, fleshy, sinuous leaves and several stems with small yellow flowers
Watercolour and bodycolour, over graphite

Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 2d

I’m reading Kristina Gaddy’s WELL OF SOULS: Uncovering the Banjo’s hidden history. The action kicks off in 1687 Jamaica. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Well of Souls

One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year • Named one of the Most Memorable Music Books of the Year by No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music 'Compelling.&he...

wwnorton.com

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to all the marathoners and half-marathoners and ten-mile runners and everyone else with foam rollers and sore hips and busted toenails. Yall kick ass.

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 3d

I am a student of the guitar. Focused practice is crucial to my development and interruptions like these will not be tolerated

My son Murphy crawled inside the guitar case and decided not to come out

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 3d

@djgloverepair.bsky.social I went to the bathroom and I said to myself, “this guy gets marketing.”

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 3d

The Nook fuckin rules

Shiny stickers commemorating the 25th anniversary of Casper & Runyon’s Nook

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 4d

My current employer hosted my former employer for an Oktoberfest shindig this afternoon and I felt good enough to go. Where would Minnesota’s brewing industry be without these two knuckleheads?