jeremy messersmith
@jeremymessersmith.bsky.social
Songwriter guy
I saw a documentary last week about four women from Southeast Asia who flee the horrors of war and settle in the US. One woman described the transition from Cambodia to Minnesota with a line that absolutely destroyed the audience.
“I survived the killing fields. I can survive this winter.”
“I survived the killing fields. I can survive this winter.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I saw a documentary last week about four women from Southeast Asia who flee the horrors of war and settle in the US. One woman described the transition from Cambodia to Minnesota with a line that absolutely destroyed the audience.
“I survived the killing fields. I can survive this winter.”
“I survived the killing fields. I can survive this winter.”
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Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
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We're going to have to do an episode of @pastduepodcast.com about this. IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF MUSICIAN, please let me know.
Not me, but a local musician friend. I know a lot of musicians, and it’s not at all uncommon for them to just do without insurance and hope for the best. My employer based insurance is something like $110/month (very fortunate). If I had to pay this much, I’d have to do without too.
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We're going to have to do an episode of @pastduepodcast.com about this. IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF MUSICIAN, please let me know.
Might I suggest an eight minute cover of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” to start your day? tinyurl.com/46uhjztz
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Might I suggest an eight minute cover of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” to start your day? tinyurl.com/46uhjztz
I have no idea exactly how I ended up on the side of a bus, but whatever.
I’m Jeremy Messersmith and I approve this message.
I’m Jeremy Messersmith and I approve this message.
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I have no idea exactly how I ended up on the side of a bus, but whatever.
I’m Jeremy Messersmith and I approve this message.
I’m Jeremy Messersmith and I approve this message.
I don't know how y'all die-hard sports fans do it. My capacity for fandom is limited by my capacity for heartbreak.
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I don't know how y'all die-hard sports fans do it. My capacity for fandom is limited by my capacity for heartbreak.
I've only really ever been a fan of one team in any sport and it was a real delight to have my fandom re-actived this year. Thanks, Mariners.
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I've only really ever been a fan of one team in any sport and it was a real delight to have my fandom re-actived this year. Thanks, Mariners.
My followers on other platforms seemed mostly bewildered by this question. It looks like the 620 in St Paul tonight?
Any place in MSP where transplanted Washingtonians are gathering to watch their beloved Mariners during the playoffs?
October 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My followers on other platforms seemed mostly bewildered by this question. It looks like the 620 in St Paul tonight?
Any place in MSP where transplanted Washingtonians are gathering to watch their beloved Mariners during the playoffs?
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Any place in MSP where transplanted Washingtonians are gathering to watch their beloved Mariners during the playoffs?
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Cool as hell pets not allowed.
September 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Cool as hell pets not allowed.
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This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
September 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen
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this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true
September 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true
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For the next 97 days, I will post one thing per day about the late, great Tom Lehrer — one for each year of his life — unless I forget and skip a day.
Day 1: he found a rhyme for 🍊!
Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.
Day 1: he found a rhyme for 🍊!
Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.
July 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
For the next 97 days, I will post one thing per day about the late, great Tom Lehrer — one for each year of his life — unless I forget and skip a day.
Day 1: he found a rhyme for 🍊!
Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.
Day 1: he found a rhyme for 🍊!
Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.
42
July 31, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:
One of my favorite songwriters. His dark humor is something I frequently try to channel when writing (Boomers, 666). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One of my favorite songwriters. His dark humor is something I frequently try to channel when writing (Boomers, 666). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
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They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response
The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.
www.startribune.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
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A 15-yo is now caring for his little brothers bc ICE snatched their mom. And another family that the local Santa Barbara paper found, pretty much same thing. Think how many stories aren’t being told www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids
"I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.
www.independent.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A 15-yo is now caring for his little brothers bc ICE snatched their mom. And another family that the local Santa Barbara paper found, pretty much same thing. Think how many stories aren’t being told www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...
I wrote a survival guide for the 21st century and an anthem for a generation.
"Boomers" is now streaming everywhere.
Send it to that special boomer in your life!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vPm...
"Boomers" is now streaming everywhere.
Send it to that special boomer in your life!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vPm...
Boomers
YouTube video by Jeremy Messersmith - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I wrote a survival guide for the 21st century and an anthem for a generation.
"Boomers" is now streaming everywhere.
Send it to that special boomer in your life!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vPm...
"Boomers" is now streaming everywhere.
Send it to that special boomer in your life!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vPm...
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This broke me from the first paragraph
"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."
Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social
"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."
Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social
Brooks: Minnesota’s greatest honor for a family’s great loss
Former President Joe Biden paid his respects in person, and mourners waited in long lines to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, as they lay in state at the Capitol.
www.startribune.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This broke me from the first paragraph
"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."
Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social
"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."
Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social
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the mamdani thing is showing you how limited the range of acceptable opinions actually is in america. republicans can be a stone's throw away from endorsing genocide and thats fine but one guy goes slightly to the left of dem party orthodoxy and we're right in the middle of soviet russia
June 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
the mamdani thing is showing you how limited the range of acceptable opinions actually is in america. republicans can be a stone's throw away from endorsing genocide and thats fine but one guy goes slightly to the left of dem party orthodoxy and we're right in the middle of soviet russia
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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
June 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
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When @scaachi.bsky.social tells you the internet isn't fun even for HER anymore, it's time to get off the internet. slate.com/technology/2...
The Internet As We Knew It Is Over. The Only Thing Left Is to Go Outside
We used to have fun online. Not anymore.
slate.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
When @scaachi.bsky.social tells you the internet isn't fun even for HER anymore, it's time to get off the internet. slate.com/technology/2...