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🎶 ⚾ & 🍻 And dogs. Artist & writer, would rather wallow around a campfire in a southern swamp than ascend a cultured concrete jungle 🇺🇸 I cuss ⚠️

Proud American vagabond
Joined May 2017
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I'm dead! This is the coolest thing ever. I joke my Dad cranked the White Album & changed my diaper. Here's another example of fine American youth. "I'd clap my hands Stomp my feets Try & stay in time." Lynyrd Skynyrd "Ballad of Curtis Loew"
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Silver. Gold. Pussy. ☠️ Freddie Mercury's openly gay & all media puts him on a pedestal because he's openly gay. So was Rob freakin' Halford of Judas Priest. I get so tired of seeing Freddie Mercury hailed as the greatest singer/songwriter ever. He's not even f'n close.
I'll piss everyone off again. I see Freddie Mercury rated above Robert Plant in rock singers. That's f'n BS. He's gay. OK. That doesn't get my vote. Plant is better in vocal range, but... Mercury can't touch Plant lyrically. Not even fucking close. Queen never did this.
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But he's (whispers) gay. The soft bigotry of low expectations. The "liberal" left are so fucking bigoted they can't realize it. I don't care if Freddie Mercury is gay. OK? Does that make him handicapped? It doesn't to me. But it does to you, you fucking bigot. Can you see?
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BLACK SABBATH. SNOWBLIND
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I'm a headbanger. Early, Uli Jon Roth-era Scorpions first got me into heavy metal after I heard a Black Sabbath song on the radio 👀 I much prefer their heavy stuff to the commercial 💩 But given the gravity of the situation, this is a masterpiece. 🎶 Right here Right now 🎶
Scorpions - Wind Of Change (1991)
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Ongoing Cubs 2026-2027 offseason🧵 This will be interesting, as no one knows what's up with a new CBA. I'll proceed as normal, IDK how else. We have one of the best positional cores in baseball locked up. Jed Hoyer simply refuses to develop pitching. So here we are. Again.
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Clay Holmes ($12M, player) & Matthew Boyd ($15M, mutual) have both declined their 2027 options. Cubs hold 2 club options I expect them to exercise: $7.5M on RHP Colin Rea & $2.5M with Jacob Webb. Jed needs to start somewhere. I expect Hoyer to pursue Holmes. 3/$65M?
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Next major deadline is Nov. 2: contract options & qualifying offers. Cubs will pick up club options on Rea & Webb, & will offer QOs to Happ & Suzuki. Seiya will decline. He wants to stay, but bidding will get stupid. 5/$150M? IDK what Happ does. Accept what should be $23.15M?
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Remember that time when you were 9 or 6 or 11, wondering if you wanted to be gay or straight? Boy or girl, maybe trans? When ALL your school teachers had private sex talks, "our little secret"? Me neither. Fuck you. Bananarama "Venus"
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Imagine this conversation between a father & his 13 year-old son: "Dad, school's out. I have that motorcycle we just built, & $13. I'm going to the Grand Canyon. I might be back in 3 months." Dad: "OK, son. I raised you well. Good luck." We weren't pussies back then🤘🇺🇸🎸
Remember the time you built a 1968 Triumph 🚲 out of baskets your Vietnam vet Dad acquired by mowing neighbor's lawns at age 13 & rode it from Chicago to the Grand Canyon for 3 months with $13 in your pocket & a helmet so cops couldn't see you were too young to drive? I do🤘🇺🇸
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For anyone who doubts the veracity of this story, this is my Dad:
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When I was 14... My boys & I farted in each other's faces as we drank 7 oz. Little Kings, smoked thai sticks & cranked Black Sabbath at 11. Then Mötley Crüe happened 🤦 Who are they? Is this metal? Hair band BS?
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One of my top conquests when I skipped my 1989 prom. I had a kegger in the woods instead, a big 🔥 I think I banged 2 or 3 of these girls, but I don't really remember. They look familiar? I was kinda drunk🤘
My Top 10 Hair Metal Albums Of The 80s #2 Motley Crue: Shout At The Devil (1983) I like this album a ton. Unfortunately, I don't like anything else by them.
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Remember the time you built a 1968 Triumph 🚲 out of baskets your Vietnam vet Dad acquired by mowing neighbor's lawns at age 13 & rode it from Chicago to the Grand Canyon for 3 months with $13 in your pocket & a helmet so cops couldn't see you were too young to drive? I do🤘🇺🇸
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf (Easy Rider OST)
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My question: Would you rather die alive... Or live dead? I'm 55 & have no clue how 🤷
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Hot take: a good tradesman will always out-earn half the folks with a college degree they never used. 👇
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It's 5:08 am. I'm making coffee, getting ready to go to work & pay the bills for this shithole we call society. Black Sabbath just started coughing on my stereo (I don't watch TV). What's on yours?
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf Master of Reality (1971) My life is free now, my life is clear I love you, sweet leaf, though you can't hear
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