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A hot take for today: Rough and Rowdy Ways is not only a solid album for an 80 year old icon - it is the best album of Dylan's entire career.

“I lost the ball for about three seconds,” Johnson said postgame. “Luckily it popped back into my vision. That’s part of it. You know, you can’t make excuses. That’s part of the elements. You see different elements throughout the year. I’m grateful I came down with it. It felt good.”

Sports in general would be better if we, as the public, would let players do their talking on the field of play.

Unless, of course, what they have to say dovetails with a pertinent political issue the country is grappling with. Then, by all means, let's hear their fire hot takes.

I want to trim my dog's nails, and I got the nail clippers, but I'm doggone nervous about the entire thing. Nothing to do but take the furry plunge and remember how much I used to hate trimming my own nails.

when there's a knife already in the butter dish that had been used, and I go to make another kind of sandwich, i just take that butter knife, wipe if off on the bread, then dip it into whatever fresh spread I'm about to use.

Haven't had enough time to do the crossword lately. That must be remedied, somehow, someway.

In other news, trying to get the Homepod to play "Jesus Lord by Kanye West" instead of "Jesus is Lord by Kanye West" is a high degree of difficulty.

When I was just now pouring the water into the water well of the coffee maker, some drops accidentally spilled into the grounds in the basket - I was mortified by those drips, because the ground aren't supposed to get wet prior to the brew - but I was also too lazy to change them out for fresh. #life

It only took me 4 days, but I got the car seat put back together.

Rich Mullins. If you haven't listened to him, he's far more than whatever you thought. Listen.

The 2nd half of Modern Vampires of the City is up there with Abbey Road as my favorite records ever. Such great flow of tunes and moods. I love it and it makes me happy and sad all at the same time every time I listen.

COVID-19 updated #9: when the pandemic started, I was preparing multiple bottles of baby milk each morning to save time. Now I'm potty training.

One of the oddest, and yet coolest, experiences I've had was getting to, in a very impromptu manner, play guitar in a band tossed together by a friend that would open for Bon Iver at the student union in Iowa City. 2008 or so? In the Black Box theater.

What does it mean that I haven't watched the Olympics at all this year? Or that I don't care about them. Or that I don't feel any emotional affinity for any sports team anymore. Or care about sports at all.

I had previously thought that Guided By Voices were a conventional classic rock band that I wouldn’t be into. Like The Shins. But I found out yesterday that that isn’t at all true. They’re weird, and from Ohio.

Karl Ove on cutting off another driver when changing lanes and almost causing an accident: “The angry blast of his horn cut straight into my soul.“

I get this. The feeling of having troubled someone and provoked an outburst. Shameful.

It is a rule in our house, inscribed upon tablets of stone, and the tablets of human hearts, that the morning pot of coffee be a darker roast, and the afternoon pot of coffee be a lighter roast.

I can’t believe it’s Monday. I almost forgot to take the trash out. Considering the idea that I could listen closely to music more often. Instead of all the talk. The inanity of it all. Read and write more, do the crosswords, complete the crosswords, figure out how to make music again.

AC repair person finally here. We are on day 4 of no AC upstairs. It’s been close to 90 up there in the late afternoon, and no lower than 84 at night.

Would it have been nice for them to come earlier? Yes. But they’ve been swamped. And we are an understanding family. That is part of our DNA.

For an unknown reason, Fox requested that we play “bird sounds” on the car stereo. So Marielle dialed in an hour of bird sounds on YouTube and he was happy. Why?? How??

Think about all those times you heated something in the microwave for 10 seconds. Now think about all the time you could've saved if you'd punched in 9 instead.

I can feel Fox beginning to quit his nap time. And it’s fine. I will handle it and move on.