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Excerpt from: "I am not a brand. I am a body of work." Read it here: www.jumpinthestream.com/not-a-brand/
Image of text. Text reads: "I want my body—this body of work—to pull on its heavy boots and kick at rocks and stride toward thunder-headed horizons and roll in fields choked in daffodil-lic joy. I want it to get splinters in its paw pads and ticks upon its skin. Be bruised and shivering, thick with rashes and beset by aches and cramps. To be familiar with phantom pains that come and go." 
October 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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These live frogs are making my morning fly. 🐸
Image shows cover of vinyl record: "Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade"
September 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I have this on my cork board for times such as this. Here's a pep talk from @gregproops.bsky.social I mean, I'm not really in the fucking mood right now, GREG, but... ok. What choice do I got but now.
September 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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*mutters to self* "posting every day until someone listens to it"

www.buzzsprout.com/2194216/epis...

#primus #music #podcast #lesclaypool
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Enhance! My mega #music / #Primus essay has just been extra mega-enhanced with this magical pic of #LesClaypool from official “Onward and Upward” tour photog Jordan Kravitz. Really matches the vibe of this wizard section. Read the full piece here: www.jumpinthestream.com/primus/
Les Claypool playing bass guitar like a wizard. Photo by Jordan Kravitz Excerpt of an article called "Prime time in the time of Primus" by Janeen McCrae. Text reads: "The character he becomes onstage, or the way the character of Les Claypool interacts within the wizarding space, is a kind of incantation. A spell. Sometimes he casts words out like an auctioneer or a carnival barker. Sometimes with a snarl, or a shove, or a whisper. Sometimes he's all nursery rhyme time and weird affectation—part Peewee Herman, part mad scientist on the verge. And sometimes, he’s just a narrator, a guy on a porch, singing us through a story. The omnipotent voice of..., well, not God, but some kind of Oz for sure." Image of Les Claypool of Primus playing bass. Accompanying text excerpt from a music essay called "Prime time in the time of Primus" by Janeen McCrae. Text reads: "The Wonderful Wizard of Ob?(servation).
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Excerpt from "Are we not trees?" It's the latest thing that sprung forth from my brain. Go read the full piece here: www.jumpinthestream.com/are-we-not-t...
Screencap of text from post "Are we not trees?" Text reads: "Standing tall with knuckles burled, we seek the caress of a willing sun. We yearn for the touch of hope on our receding hairlines. For the flush of warmth to our bark. In a long moment of stretch, we branch out with our gnarled fists aiming skywards. In this action, huddling strong in grove and dell and chaparral, are we not the final stand?"
August 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Saw Primus last night at the Quarry Amphitheater. Merch so good, the moths in my wallet begged to be let out and I said: "Fly, moths! Be free!" Poster art by Portland artist, Paul Kreizenbeck
August 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Listen to the #podcast episode I'm talking about, here: www.buzzsprout.com/2194216/epis...
June 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This is 9 servings. I think I did… 4. Also, they didn't have any of the classic vanilla (which is said in my podcast this week is the best ice cream on earth) but this did the job. Hmm… I just plugged my podcast so… www.buzzsprout.com/2194216/epis...
Picture of a tub of Tillamook Salty Caramel Pretzel ice cream.
April 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A stanza from a poem I love, “Bruce Banner #3” by Kenyatta Rogers. (if you want to read the whole thing, its here.) Last stanza is also 🔥 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
“In the afterlife I hope all of my pets are there. There is no wrong way to mourn we’re drinking the same water as the dinosaurs.” Excerpt from the poem Bruce Banner #3 BY KENYATTA ROGERS
April 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Watch full episode here. Adventure!

How to live an adventurous life
youtu.be/UQV_cBIVbCA
April 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I don't know what other people's melanoma's looked like, but for educational purposes, I'll show you mine. It was in the center of my back and hard to contort to see. One day I looked at it in the mirror and said 'there is no way you've always looked like that.' Look at how proud of itself it is.
Picture of my melanoma before it got yeeted to oblivion.
April 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Playing Dead for Fun and Profit. 🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/2194216/epis...
March 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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14 minute episode 🎧🤜 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
February 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Here is some light (and masked) entertainment. Listen to me read "Raccoons under the influence" in my deliciously antipodean voice. 🦝 #podcast
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February 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Go read the full post “How to plant, nurture, and grow an Adventure Capitalist.” 👉 janeenmccrae.substack.com/p/adventure-...
February 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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My five word review…
February 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Big stick on the beach.
January 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The where of “I read this today” was a @hankgreen.bsky.social post and now I can't find it to nod to it. (maybe threads?) It stuck in my brain. I used it in my review of Father John Misty’s “Mahashmashana” Heavy! Now everyone put on this record and take the flight open.substack.com/pub/janeenmc...
“Trust the pilot. Trust the pilot. Clouds are heavy. I read this today, somewhere, someplace. The pilot must know this. The pilot must have handbooks. Charts. Manifests. Sketches on a cocktail napkin, inks smudged by the icy tears of condensation. The pilot knows the way and how to get there.”
January 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I wrote 13,817 words about #Music in the last 6 days (took one day off). That's 5 posts about records that spoke to me in 2024. All posts gathered here for your convenience. Its the Vinyl Countdown! (do-do-doo-dooo) janeenmccrae.substack.com/s/music-resp...
January 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM