Baseball note: For the manyth year in a row, the best media spending I did in 2024 was Joe Sheehan's newsletter. If you spend time thinking about baseball, you can't do better. Hoping, but not expecting, @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social to spend some time here in 2025, but regardless he's worth the $.

Going to be one of those days in Grand Rapids tomorrow. I live under the dark blue blobs just SW of town. I should've studied the lake effect snow maps more carefully when I moved here 7 years ago.

Re: The Guardian report on Trump not doing FBI background checks.
As the kids say, I believe I had this one.

as someone who doesn’t follow soccer, i’m getting a little annoyed by all the soccer posts i see on here. everything i don’t personally enjoy should be destroyed

Sampling the air over here again. Hoping more sports talk has relocated.

And on the off chance you've never heard it and since it's mentioned in the piece, here's "Hickory Wind" with Emmylou.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S11H...

But it makes me feel better
Each time it begins
Calling me home
Hickory wind

A great article about one of my favorite musicians. Can't wait for my copy (vinyl, of course) of his newly discovered concert with Emmylou Harris.
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/a...

I have not thought about the Roman Empire since high school. It's unlikely that streak will be broken anytime soon.

Coming to Bluesky from the old place is like moving out of state to a new school.
"Hey, none of the kids know me there. I can reinvent myself and be one of the cool kids"
A week into it and I'm still sitting in the corner not talking to anybody.

I need to keep in mind that there aren't a ton of people here yet so it doesn't take much to become the Bluesky star of the day. Looking at you Mr. Brooks.

Thanks to @senatorshoshana.bsky.social I have arrived. There's really nobody better at constituent service.