Colby Blanton
@colbyblanton.com
🇺🇦Owner of Rocket Heart Records, local music supporter, photographer, and resident gadget person. He/They West Seattle, WA
www.rocketheartrecords.com
www.rocketheartrecords.com
Reposted by Colby Blanton
#OnThisDay in 1999, when most journalists were cleared out of downtown Seattle during the WTO protests, HistoryLink had the only live feed of the disturbance (one frame per minute) from the webcam in our office window. Learn more about it here: www.historylink.org/File/9203
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#OnThisDay in 1999, when most journalists were cleared out of downtown Seattle during the WTO protests, HistoryLink had the only live feed of the disturbance (one frame per minute) from the webcam in our office window. Learn more about it here: www.historylink.org/File/9203
Being an adult means having steak for dinner and Count Chocula for dessert
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Being an adult means having steak for dinner and Count Chocula for dessert
Back in April while cycling through the streets of Paris I told myself that this was going to be the summer where I get out and ride more regularly. It took me until August before I did that. 105 miles in one month. Not a bad start!
September 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Back in April while cycling through the streets of Paris I told myself that this was going to be the summer where I get out and ride more regularly. It took me until August before I did that. 105 miles in one month. Not a bad start!
Liberals strongest ability, being able to protest what we don’t like.
Liberals weakest ability, being able to protest what we don’t like, even if it’s a fellow liberal. And even if it means burning everything down to the ground and letting a dictator take over.
Liberals weakest ability, being able to protest what we don’t like, even if it’s a fellow liberal. And even if it means burning everything down to the ground and letting a dictator take over.
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Liberals strongest ability, being able to protest what we don’t like.
Liberals weakest ability, being able to protest what we don’t like, even if it’s a fellow liberal. And even if it means burning everything down to the ground and letting a dictator take over.
Liberals weakest ability, being able to protest what we don’t like, even if it’s a fellow liberal. And even if it means burning everything down to the ground and letting a dictator take over.
I think my midlife crisis might be thinking of selling everything and moving to France.
July 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I think my midlife crisis might be thinking of selling everything and moving to France.
Imposter syndrome is the real deal. I’ve had it for the past 25+ years being in the music industry. Even saying that I am in the music industry makes me feel like I’m telling a lie.
July 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Imposter syndrome is the real deal. I’ve had it for the past 25+ years being in the music industry. Even saying that I am in the music industry makes me feel like I’m telling a lie.
@amandaknox.com I know the chances are slim because you’re super busy, but I have to ask. We have a former Ukrainian exchange student who is back in Europe. She’s working for a new organization that is working to create new standards for how media portrays formally incarcerated people.
May 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@amandaknox.com I know the chances are slim because you’re super busy, but I have to ask. We have a former Ukrainian exchange student who is back in Europe. She’s working for a new organization that is working to create new standards for how media portrays formally incarcerated people.
Just a stroll through Saint Germain to Champs de Mars and back. Just in time for vin et fromage as it started to rain
April 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Just a stroll through Saint Germain to Champs de Mars and back. Just in time for vin et fromage as it started to rain
Dinner on the Seine after a long day of travel
April 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Dinner on the Seine after a long day of travel
Here’s an economics lesson for you. I own a vinyl record label. The records we produce are at times pressed in Czech Republic.
With our last pressing, this tariff would cost me $300.
Meaning an increase of $1.00 per record.
Which in turn, would increase the retail price to you, the consumer.
With our last pressing, this tariff would cost me $300.
Meaning an increase of $1.00 per record.
Which in turn, would increase the retail price to you, the consumer.
BREAKING NEWS: Trump said his administration will apply a 10% tariff on all imports, and that other trading partners will face additional “reciprocal tariffs” ranging as high as 49%.
Today is Trump's 'Liberation Day.' What does that mean for tariffs?
President Trump has been promising new "reciprocal tariffs" to punish other countries for their tariffs and trade barriers. Markets are nervous that a trade war could hike prices and hurt the economy.
www.npr.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Here’s an economics lesson for you. I own a vinyl record label. The records we produce are at times pressed in Czech Republic.
With our last pressing, this tariff would cost me $300.
Meaning an increase of $1.00 per record.
Which in turn, would increase the retail price to you, the consumer.
With our last pressing, this tariff would cost me $300.
Meaning an increase of $1.00 per record.
Which in turn, would increase the retail price to you, the consumer.
It’s important to learn from history and not repeat the unforgivable parts. But here we are…
#OnThisDay in 1942, Bainbridge Island's Japanese American residents, the first to be incarcerated under Executive Order 9066, were removed from their homes. historylink.org/File/8277
March 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It’s important to learn from history and not repeat the unforgivable parts. But here we are…
Reposted by Colby Blanton
Rocket Heart Records is proud to announce the restored, reordered, and remastered—forever—version of Open Up and Say Awesome on vinyl for the very first time! It includes updated cover art, an insert with photos and liner notes, and will be a limited-edition pressing of 250. awesome.rhrecs.co
March 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Rocket Heart Records is proud to announce the restored, reordered, and remastered—forever—version of Open Up and Say Awesome on vinyl for the very first time! It includes updated cover art, an insert with photos and liner notes, and will be a limited-edition pressing of 250. awesome.rhrecs.co
Wait, the guy who based a large amount of his campaign shit talking clean energy, bought an electric car to own the Libs? Is this how we save the environment?
March 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Wait, the guy who based a large amount of his campaign shit talking clean energy, bought an electric car to own the Libs? Is this how we save the environment?
Leaving this country in about a month. Even though it’s only temporary, I’m so excited!
March 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Leaving this country in about a month. Even though it’s only temporary, I’m so excited!
Sooo the United States official language is now British English, right? Since that’s the most common form in the world and what was used in the Declaration of Independence.
March 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Sooo the United States official language is now British English, right? Since that’s the most common form in the world and what was used in the Declaration of Independence.
You know it’s bad when your former Ukrainian exchange student/refugee asks if YOU are safe in America. 🆘
March 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
You know it’s bad when your former Ukrainian exchange student/refugee asks if YOU are safe in America. 🆘
I’m so pissed off at this. After living with a Ukrainian exchange student turned refugee for two years, the amount of respect I have for Ukrainians is massive.🇺🇦 #slavaukraini
A meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew contentious, with Trump telling Zelenskyy that "you're not acting at all thankful" for U.S. support.
Trump and Zelenskyy's meeting turns into a heated argument
A meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew contentious, with Trump telling Zelenskyy that "you're not acting at all thankful" for U.S. support.
www.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I’m so pissed off at this. After living with a Ukrainian exchange student turned refugee for two years, the amount of respect I have for Ukrainians is massive.🇺🇦 #slavaukraini
Gulf of America is the new Freedom Fries. A temporary future laughable footnote
February 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Gulf of America is the new Freedom Fries. A temporary future laughable footnote
Everyone now that the game is over:
February 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Everyone now that the game is over:
Snowy day in West Seattle
February 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Snowy day in West Seattle
At nearly 41 years old, I’ve discovered I’ve been folding burritos incorrectly.
January 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
At nearly 41 years old, I’ve discovered I’ve been folding burritos incorrectly.
I’m about to go to the grocery store, all the prices better be substantially less than they were last week.
January 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I’m about to go to the grocery store, all the prices better be substantially less than they were last week.
Follow up, I did not sign into my regular account. I was surprised that I was fed endless amounts of T*ump TikToks even though I was using a non-US location
Spare iPhone > Spare Apple ID > Region change > Hotspot > VPN = Access to TikTok
January 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Follow up, I did not sign into my regular account. I was surprised that I was fed endless amounts of T*ump TikToks even though I was using a non-US location
Spare iPhone > Spare Apple ID > Region change > Hotspot > VPN = Access to TikTok
January 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Spare iPhone > Spare Apple ID > Region change > Hotspot > VPN = Access to TikTok