Kenneth Jobe
@booksofjobe.bsky.social
Half-assed Renaissance man. Writer, photographer, musician. Books/music/movies/TV/pro wrestling/PBA. I’ve been told I make a mean plate of nachos.
Get ready for Ted Nugent and Kid Rock at next year’s Kennedy Center Honors.
I am incandescent with rage. How dare he! He doesn’t give two fucks about the arts. Leave us the arts! That tinpot dictator can go straight to hell www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Trump Says He Will Install Himself as Kennedy Center Chairman
The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Get ready for Ted Nugent and Kid Rock at next year’s Kennedy Center Honors.
Local LGBTQ+ clinic now offering free birth control for women who divorce their Republican spouse
February 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Local LGBTQ+ clinic now offering free birth control for women who divorce their Republican spouse
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JFC. No. We don’t want you to find common ground with the fascists. 🤦♂️
"It is very clear that, if there is a middle of all of this hot mess of division, Americans want us to work together when we can and find common ground," Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells the Opinion writer Michelle Cottle.
Opinion | Amy Klobuchar on How Democrats Can Combat America’s ‘Hot Mess of Division’
The Minnesota moderate has thoughts on how her party can move forward.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
JFC. No. We don’t want you to find common ground with the fascists. 🤦♂️
Kansas legislators have proposed two bills prohibiting gender affirming care for minors, including therapy and “social transitioning.” As a therapist w/mostly trans clients, my wife was compelled to go to Topeka to testify in opposition. 1/
January 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Kansas legislators have proposed two bills prohibiting gender affirming care for minors, including therapy and “social transitioning.” As a therapist w/mostly trans clients, my wife was compelled to go to Topeka to testify in opposition. 1/
Hitting up the used bookstore is one of my favorite kinds of self care
January 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hitting up the used bookstore is one of my favorite kinds of self care
I’ve never considered myself especially knowledgeable about politics, I’ve always just tried to stay informed on some level. So it really floors me seeing how many people seem completely blindsided by what’s happening right now. They literally told us what they were going to do beforehand
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I’ve never considered myself especially knowledgeable about politics, I’ve always just tried to stay informed on some level. So it really floors me seeing how many people seem completely blindsided by what’s happening right now. They literally told us what they were going to do beforehand
Living in a red state certainly has its challenges, so it’s nice being reminded there are likeminded people out there
January 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Living in a red state certainly has its challenges, so it’s nice being reminded there are likeminded people out there
Sometimes I wonder how much better of a band Weezer could’ve been if Pinkerton had been more successful
January 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sometimes I wonder how much better of a band Weezer could’ve been if Pinkerton had been more successful
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Here's why we're cooked:
Elon Musk did a Nazi salute from behind the Presidential seal.
Of course the right played defense and claimed it was something else.
And instead of just saying "I don't believe your lies" SO MANY PEOPLE FELT THE NEED TO PROVE IT WAS A NAZI SALUTE!!!
Right into the trap.
Elon Musk did a Nazi salute from behind the Presidential seal.
Of course the right played defense and claimed it was something else.
And instead of just saying "I don't believe your lies" SO MANY PEOPLE FELT THE NEED TO PROVE IT WAS A NAZI SALUTE!!!
Right into the trap.
January 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Here's why we're cooked:
Elon Musk did a Nazi salute from behind the Presidential seal.
Of course the right played defense and claimed it was something else.
And instead of just saying "I don't believe your lies" SO MANY PEOPLE FELT THE NEED TO PROVE IT WAS A NAZI SALUTE!!!
Right into the trap.
Elon Musk did a Nazi salute from behind the Presidential seal.
Of course the right played defense and claimed it was something else.
And instead of just saying "I don't believe your lies" SO MANY PEOPLE FELT THE NEED TO PROVE IT WAS A NAZI SALUTE!!!
Right into the trap.
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Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.
January 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.
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Guitar Center Foundation is helping musicians replace instruments that were lost in LA fires guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires/?fbcli...
January 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Guitar Center Foundation is helping musicians replace instruments that were lost in LA fires guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires/?fbcli...
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"Virtue signaling": a phrase invented by those who've smashed their own moral compasses and are pissed off that others' can still find north.
January 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Virtue signaling": a phrase invented by those who've smashed their own moral compasses and are pissed off that others' can still find north.
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If the thing you're best known for when you die is having spent a good portion of your life denying other people's humanity, then...well, fuck you, I guess.
January 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If the thing you're best known for when you die is having spent a good portion of your life denying other people's humanity, then...well, fuck you, I guess.
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If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
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I could post my word count for the year or my grades or any number of accomplishments, and I am so grateful and proud of them. But truthfully I survived, and if that's all you did this year too, I'm cheering for you, too!
Remember your worth isn't tied to your productivity. That's capitalist crap.
Remember your worth isn't tied to your productivity. That's capitalist crap.
December 29, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I could post my word count for the year or my grades or any number of accomplishments, and I am so grateful and proud of them. But truthfully I survived, and if that's all you did this year too, I'm cheering for you, too!
Remember your worth isn't tied to your productivity. That's capitalist crap.
Remember your worth isn't tied to your productivity. That's capitalist crap.
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I don't WANT "Artificial Intelligent Artists"
I want "Naturally STUPID Artists" such as myself
I want "Naturally STUPID Artists" such as myself
December 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
I don't WANT "Artificial Intelligent Artists"
I want "Naturally STUPID Artists" such as myself
I want "Naturally STUPID Artists" such as myself
If I’m lucky, opening this will be the most anxiety I face today
December 8, 2024 at 6:07 PM
If I’m lucky, opening this will be the most anxiety I face today
Whenever I sit down to edit something I’ve written, if I don’t find anything to change I always assume I must be missing something. It never occurs to me that I could possibly be finished.
December 7, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Whenever I sit down to edit something I’ve written, if I don’t find anything to change I always assume I must be missing something. It never occurs to me that I could possibly be finished.
EVERYBODY SHUT UP THE DOG SHOW’S ON
November 28, 2024 at 6:04 PM
EVERYBODY SHUT UP THE DOG SHOW’S ON
When I found out my brother in law doesn’t like deviled eggs
November 28, 2024 at 5:20 PM
When I found out my brother in law doesn’t like deviled eggs
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You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
Today’s writing soundtrack courtesy of soul/funk trio Parlor Greens. Highly recommended
Parlor Greens - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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November 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Today’s writing soundtrack courtesy of soul/funk trio Parlor Greens. Highly recommended
Finally got around to reading Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper last week, and it got me to rethink certain aspects of a story of my own. Now I’m doing a little tinkering and the story will be that much better for it. Ngl I really like that feeling
November 21, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Finally got around to reading Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper last week, and it got me to rethink certain aspects of a story of my own. Now I’m doing a little tinkering and the story will be that much better for it. Ngl I really like that feeling