The Great Leo Kottke With Phish’s Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Bob Boilen | October 21, 2020
It’s been 15 years since the legendary guitarist Leo Kottke put out a new recording, and it’s no coincidence that his new music is with Phish bassist Mike Gordon. The two have a history of making albums together, but that hit a hiatus in 2005 with their Sixty Six Steps project. They’re back with a 2020 album, Noon, and Phish drummer Jon Fishman joins the duo. And while they’re miles apart for this Tiny Desk (home) concert, Leo at Creation Audio in Minneapolis and Mike and Jon at Tank Recording Studio in Burlington, Vt., there’s plenty of humor and spirit traversing the wires.

They begin with what fans of Leo Kottke fell in love with 50 years ago, the sound of his acoustic guitar fingerpicking. Mike Gordon punctuates the opening song “Flat Top,” which at moments feels like a musical chase. Jon Fishman is a tasteful addition. Mike and Jon have played over 2,000 shows together, so there’s telepathy there. Still, he also finds ways into the music that isn’t merely rhythmic; he adds aural atmospherics with brushes in hand. There are some fun visual tricks but — musically speaking — not a moment of trickery. Just pure magic.

SET LIST
“Flat Top”
“The Only One”
“Sheets”
“I Am Random”

MUSICIANS
Leo Kottke: acoustic guitar, vocals
Mike Gordon: bass, vocals
Jon Fishman: drums, vocals

CREDITS
Edited and Directed by: Eli Tishberg
Videographers: Nate Ryan and Bruce Gibbs
Music Produced by: Jared Slomoff
Audio Engineers: Rob O’Dea, Miles Hanson and Steve Wiese
Production Assistants: Gretchen Bedard and Sam Gibbs
Recorded and filmed at Creation Audio (Studio A), Minnesota and Tank Recording Studio, Burlington, Vt.
Producer: Bob Boilen
Audio Mastering Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Video Producer: Maia Stern
Associate Producer: Bobby Carter
Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:00:55pm
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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:05:54pm

Toddler gives her mother advice after hearing parents fight

“I want everything to be low, ok?”

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:08:36pm

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:08:48pm
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:12:20pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:14:36pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:23:47pm

re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron

Unsurprising that a Nixon speech writer would go on a racist and misogynistic attack.

Wonkette always refers to her as Dame Peggy Noonginton.

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Cheechako  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:23:59pm

WOW….bad day in Alaska today:

Alaska sees new record with 526 COVID-19 cases reported Sunday

Includes 35 new cases in Juneau today. Have to lock the doors and hunker down.

Dropped off our mail-in ballots last Friday at the State Voting Headquarters. Two ballots. All D’s.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:24:06pm

This actually works. Mine, or one of mine (since there were several nominees) is “Holden Bickford.”

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:24:18pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:25:27pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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This actually works. Mine, or one of mine (since there were several nominees) is “Holden Bickford.”

Wengatz Nicholson. Hmm.

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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:25:53pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Jester Palance.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:26:04pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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This actually works. Mine, or one of mine (since there were several nominees) is “Holden Bickford.”

I went to a commuter college so I never enjoyed “dorm life.”

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:26:19pm

re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron

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Noonan worked for Prototrump aka Reagan. Fuck her and her concern trolling about Kamala.

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plansbandc  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:27:29pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Kittridge Lansbury. Sounds preppy enough. :D

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Jay C  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:27:51pm

re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron

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So Peggy Noonan sobered up enough* to pen a column slagging Kamala Harris?
Quelle surprise!
Where was this? No find link.

*or maybe not

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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:29:26pm

Did someone say “absolute puerility?”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:29:28pm

Today’s Covid results.

Cases and deaths still increasing.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:30:15pm

re: #16 Jay C

So Peggy Noonan sobered up enough* to pen a column slagging Kamala Harris?
Quelle surprise!
Where was this? No find link.

*or maybe not

No idea, saw other tweets earlier. Nobody links to her.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:31:47pm

I was surprised to see that Peggy Noonan is actually younger than I am (though not by much). She seems to be one of those people who have been around since the Coolidge Administration and made their mark railing against Lend-Lease.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:33:19pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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This actually works. Mine, or one of mine (since there were several nominees) is “Holden Bickford.”

Well, it works if you have a freshman college dorm.

oscars.org

I can’t decide which supporting actor/actress should go with the first name “None.”

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:34:15pm

The cute:

The funny:

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:37:10pm

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, it works if you have a freshman college dorm.

oscars.org

I can’t decide which supporting actor/actress should go with the first name “None.”

I served a brief sentence at Texas Tech before I joined the Army. Afterward, as a veteran and undeniably an adult, I went to Cornell and was allowed to roam free in the wilds of Ithaca.

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Jay C  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:37:22pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I also commuted in college, so I cobbled up “Hunter Young” from the relevant year’s Best Supportings.
Sounds Republican enough.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:38:52pm

re: #20 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I was surprised to see that Peggy Noonan is actually younger than I am (though not by much). She seems to be one of those people who have been around since the Coolidge Administration and made their mark railing against Lend-Lease.

I got it wrong, she was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, not Richard Nixon.

This bit caught my eye:

During Hurricane Katrina, she called for looters in New Orleans to be shot. Henry Giroux called it a “barely coded rationale to shoot low-income black people.”

Aside the racism, conservatives always seem to want to go to guns first.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:40:34pm
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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:44:10pm

re: #7 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Unsurprising that a Nixon speech writer would go on a racist and misogynistic attack.

Wonkette always refers to her as Dame Peggy Noonginton.

Don’t forget how that freak had an obsession with kissing Pruneface Reagan’s toes!

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:46:07pm

re: #10 Belafon

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:46:26pm

re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I got it wrong, she was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, not Richard Nixon.

This bit caught my eye:

Aside the racism, conservatives always seem to want to go to guns first.

I’m not looking through her archives, if she even published anything on the subject, but I imagine she held much the same opinion of the looters and rioters following George Floyd’s death. Imagine her surprise, then, when it was discovered that the man who burned the 3rd Precinct was a Proud Boy.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:46:48pm
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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:48:24pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Tower C Borgnine really doesn’t work for me.

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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:48:51pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

It’s nice to get some occasional vindication!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:49:39pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:52:34pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:53:25pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

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What inspired me despite your reputation as a pro Iraq War conservative to join LGF was knowing that you condemned the early Eurofascist movements in Europe which we now know were patrons of Putin. I’m a small letter d- democrat first. Democracy and respect for human rights matters.

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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:54:18pm
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:56:08pm

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danarchy  Oct 25, 2020 • 6:59:23pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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This actually works. Mine, or one of mine (since there were several nominees) is “Holden Bickford.”

I always wonder if these things are part of a massive effort to collect answers to people’s common security questions…

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:02:15pm

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:02:33pm

re: #39 🌹UOJB!

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All aboard the Trans Am!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:03:26pm

re: #38 danarchy

I always wonder if these things are part of a massive effort to collect answers to people’s common security questions…

Many of them are. Luckily, neither of those (or the information you can derive from them, such as my birth year or university) are answers to any security question I’ve ever put down.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:05:10pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:11:37pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:12:17pm

re: #41 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Many of them are. Luckily, neither of those (or the information you can derive from them, such as my birth year or university) are answers to any security question I’ve ever put down.

I usually do fake answers, as in:

Q: What was your first job?

A: Mount St. Helens

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:13:04pm

re: #44 Eclectic Cyborg

I usually do fake answers, as in:

Q: What was your first job?

A: Mount St. Helens

That’s generally a good strategy. As long as I remember to write them down in my LastPass along with the account they’re associated to, it isn’t too much of an issue.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:15:05pm

re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron

He is such a misogynistic bastard.

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plansbandc  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:15:05pm

re: #38 danarchy

They are. I won’t do them if there’s anything I would use as a key word or password.

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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:18:15pm
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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:18:18pm

re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron

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I got a feeling President Tootyfrooty filled his Depends!😉

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plansbandc  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:20:41pm

So I was reading some R/Q hate directed at one of the doctors I follow on twitter. So apparently the Democrats helped created covid? Maybe in cahoots with China?

wut? This is something new to me.

Anyone else seeing this around the internets?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:20:41pm

Prediction: We’ll set at least three new National daily case highs between now and the end of the month.

Prediction 2: Out first 100 000 case day is not far off.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:21:41pm
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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:24:36pm

I see the Usual Gang Of Asshole Republican Idiots blaming Obamacare for the health care rationing going on in Utah…

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:26:29pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:27:12pm

Coordinating things in the background? Yet another milk dud who has never heard of operational security. facebook.com[0]=AZUDmt0KxqI01yEdJQkZ7ejWBUywzip0E44wPuplEfGNRG9mZ8h6VFtVbdsSfc3HjxYR8tA0DJjN3HmH-0-aSvsYZwLkKQH3JykR5x6cVmGMnI_v8xgBzHe4PFNLMzX-1H_tfjFYyLG1n7q2QjIKMBiCj3vhh4yNJFYSWrE38zkT5hKsdGuHdeduievIeya2NBM&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

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A Three Hour Tour  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:27:32pm

re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron

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And here we see Trump being a lying, gaslighting bastard firsthand.

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sagehen  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:28:47pm

re: #54 Patricia Kayden

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SNL had something to say about that…

Youtube Video

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:31:18pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:31:50pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Coordinating things in the background? Yet another milk dud who has never heard of operational security. facebook.com[0]=AZUDmt0KxqI01yEdJQkZ7ejWBUywzip0E44wPuplEfGNRG9mZ8h6VFtVbdsSfc3HjxYR8tA0DJjN3HmH-0-aSvsYZwLkKQH3JykR5x6cVmGMnI_v8xgBzHe4PFNLMzX-1H_tfjFYyLG1n7q2QjIKMBiCj3vhh4yNJFYSWrE38zkT5hKsdGuHdeduievIeya2NBM&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

screenshot:

Needless to say, this MAGAt warlord is just a character Josh plays to separate rubes from their money.

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:32:51pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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This actually works. Mine, or one of mine (since there were several nominees) is “Holden Bickford.”

If I could change just one letter of the dorm name, it would have been incredibly appropriate.

Davis Hall is the dorm,
Patti Duke is the Best Supporting Actress.

So I get “Davis Duke”

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(((Archangel1)))  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:34:39pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:36:09pm

Lre: #60 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!

If I could change just one letter of the dorm name, it would have been incredibly appropriate.

Davis Hall is the dorm,
Patti Duke is the Best Supporting Actress.

So I get “Davis Duke”

I’m Liberty Square Connery or Davis. Connery is actually a variation of my Great x 4 Grandmother’s maiden name of Conroy.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:36:33pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Tower C Rutherford does sound like a solid Republican name.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:37:33pm

re: #61 (((Archangel1)))

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One good thing about Trump losing is the only time I’ll get to see Jason again is in a Sebastian Gorka lookalikes contest which I wouldn’t be watching.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:41:44pm
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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:43:29pm

re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

screenshot:

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Needless to say, this MAGAt warlord is just a character Josh plays to separate rubes from their money.

Why isn’t that third rate Lex Luthor in jail?

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:44:15pm

re: #38 danarchy

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:46:42pm
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makeitstop  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:47:33pm

Even by the mediocre standards of the Trump campaign, this is some weak shit.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:48:30pm

re: #57 sagehen

I’m snorting!! Hilarious.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:51:08pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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They will and that’s why we have to if we can’t vote via absentee or mail-in voting.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:53:03pm

re: #66 🌹UOJB!

Why isn’t that third rate Lex Luthor in jail?

Trump and Barr have his back.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:54:40pm
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steve_davis  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:56:45pm

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, it works if you have a freshman college dorm.

oscars.org

I can’t decide which supporting actor/actress should go with the first name “None.”

Thorndike Harrison. Whoever I am, I’ve got a fuck ton of money, apparently.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:56:51pm
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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:57:44pm
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sagehen  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:59:01pm

re: #63 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Tower C Rutherford does sound like a solid Republican name.

It won’t work for anybody who went to UC Irvine.

Half the housing is in Middle Earth; buildings include Mirkwood, Rivendell, Isengard, Gondolin…

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jaunte  Oct 25, 2020 • 7:59:47pm

re: #77 sagehen

That would have to be your tech billionaire name.

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:00:43pm

Well, I was never in a dorm but the barracks at the casern in Illeshiem were named so how about Stork Sharif?

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JC1  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:01:16pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

Prediction 2: Out first 100 000 case day is not far off.

I put the over under for 100k cases at Nov 11th.

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plansbandc  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:01:37pm

re: #75 Patricia Kayden

I think it’s a desecration of our flag. It pisses me off every time I see it.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:07:07pm

Night Lizard. Sleep well & may the Deity of you choice smile down upon you and yours.
Time to see were the “P&E” takes me tonight. Be well.

Celtic Woman “I See Fire”

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:09:03pm

re: #76 jaunte

100% correct.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:09:54pm

I think my Fender Rumble 25 Bass practice amp is dying. If I play on it, my bass starts getting quieter, and then I start getting distortion, especially on E. I’ve tried it with two different basses, one passive, one active. It sounds even worse with the active bass.

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:13:55pm

re: #84 Belafon

Ouch.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:19:46pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:22:05pm

1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison
2. To me, “drink responsibly” means don’t spill it.
3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
4. It’s the start of a brand new day, and I’m off like a herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
6. When I say, “The other day,” I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I’m negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn’t fit any of your containers.
10. If you’re sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, “Did you bring the money?”
11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say “nothing,” it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don’t know whose side I’m on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, “Why, what did you hear?”
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don’t mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don’t use words like “east.”
19. Don’t bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That’ll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops.
21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.

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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:22:29pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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This actually works. Mine, or one of mine (since there were several nominees) is “Holden Bickford.”

Thelma Griffiths?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:24:23pm

re: #84 Belafon

I think my Fender Rumble 25 Bass practice amp is dying. If I play on it, my bass starts getting quieter, and then I start getting distortion, especially on E. I’ve tried it with two different basses, one passive, one active. It sounds even worse with the active bass.

Check your electrolytic caps, Probable dried out or busrted. DM me on twitter if you have further questions.

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bratwurst  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:33:11pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:43:14pm
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🌹UOJB!  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:43:55pm

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makeitstop  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:50:06pm
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Interesting Times  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:52:25pm

That last one is *chef’s kiss*:

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cat-tikvah  Oct 25, 2020 • 8:55:49pm

re: #9 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Warwick Buttons


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