Ohhh no... what an awful world we live in.

The Sure Thing was so endlessly quotable for me and my friends back then.

"What's wrong with me? I'm a good-looking guy?

You are! You are a good-looking guy!"

I saw them a few weeks prior on Halloween in Vermont. They played a cover of "Spooky" and had three jack o'lanterns across the stage spelling out R E M. Michael pointed to an American flag and said "See that flag? Ignore it" and I was thrilled and mildly shocked

I've seen him several more times since then biking around town in the exact same outfit but with a different wig each time. We call him Bike Guy but I've really failed if that's the best pet name I can come up with.

@rubenbolling.bsky.social One of my favorite Super Fun Paks mentioned gazpacho in every strip, and for years I've wondered if you randomly ate gazpacho and thought 'oh, this is GOLD', or if you just found the word itself surreally funny enough to mine for hilarity

I remember you did a really early strip about Ted Koppel's odd hair revealing itself to be a sentient alien, which seems kinda quaint now

Here's a simultaneous, unrelated attempt to identify Cowslip from a radio broadcast(!), mistitled Make You Bleed www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcX2... -- looking for the Out sales figures to shoot up alongside Dry July!

Dig this big crux

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq3z...

Pilgrimage! I saw them play it a couple of times in 1989 and was so happy. Laughing is a very close second. A friend of mine in Atlanta saw their show that year where they played the entirety of Green and then Murmur, and I was so envious.

I'd like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away.

I saw them do this song on the Green tour; was surprised but delighted!

Fittingly, bald eagles sometimes use a hunting strategy called kleptoparasitism in which they attack smaller predators in order to steal their food.

Conversation fear indeed

A woman sitting next to me had brought a plastic dinosaur and threw it at Peter to go with the others on his amp. Always wondered if it became part of his collection.

4/13/89 Sacramento
4/14/89 Oakland
10/20/89 Concord
10/21/89 Mt View

In Oakland, I was in the 2nd row; when the band returned for the first encore, I stood and waved at Michael, who gave me a brief derisive look as if to say, "Oh sit down, you jackass." I was ecstatic

Kind of an odd connection but whenever I see a David Lynch movie, I think of that old TMW cartoon satirizing The Angriest Dog in the World.