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Well at least I’m not a whole year behind on every album…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Singin' to an Empty Chair

Branching out into some of the collaborators on  DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS now…

Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR / Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube
Chuwi: Tierra (EP)
Chuwi: Pan (EP)

They’ve released only singles and EPs so far. I should source or build a playlist of all their tracks…

Edit: chuwi (Apple Music Playlist by Janelle Trasancos) - I probably would rather have one that goes from newest to oldest, but this is a thorough, chronological one on Apple Music that appears to start at the beginning and was just updated last week, so this will do for now.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Chuwi EPs and Singles

These tracks really popped out in mixes, and I had to grab the album. I’ve listened three or four times now and I think I want to like this a little more than I actually do. Still objectively great, though, and I still will probably give it more listens in the future.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: the apple tree under the sea

It’s 2025’s ANGIE but with 4 more tracks now and a different cover image. Nothing to complain about.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: AngieAngieAngie

Almost endlessly listenable, it turns out. Guess maybe that’s why he’s the most-streamed artist in the world…

Un Verano Sin Ti has been sitting in my library for 4 years now and I don’t know if I ever listened to the entire album until now. So behind.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: más Bad Bunny

I’m running over a year late on music right now, oh well…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

A Christmas present to myself arrived in the mail today, an Autumn Eternal fan shipment.

I’ve wanted a physical copy of this album for years now, glad they re-released it. Also, obtained my first ever metal t-shirt to match my now metal hair. (Picture of my metal hair not shown; I usually keep it in a bun, anyway, which probably isn’t very metal.)

Purchased:

• Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 10 Year Anniversary Edition CD (Pre-Order) – The Bindrune Webshop
• Panopticon - Autumn Eternal Shirt (Pre-Order) – The Bindrune Webshop

Also considered:

• Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 10 Year Anniversary edition 2LP – The Bindrune Webshop - these look beautiful but I couldn’t justify getting vinyl, don’t know when I would ever actually listen to it on vinyl
• Panopticon - Laurentian Forest Metal Shirt Design – The Bindrune Webshop

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Standalone post link: Items Obtained: Panopticon Autumn Eternal CD and T-shirt

I wrote a letter to one of my senators, John Curtis, thanking him for calling for an independent investigation into the ICE shootings in Minnesota and urging him to go further.

https://www.facebook.com/SenJohnCurtis/posts/pfbid029JSzJGFgxFMYUSjCYs8wB76S9MR6u8emAD93XgdaeRxEt4ZMYXVzGiM4bDHpepVKl

Senator Curtis,

Thank you for calling for an independent investigation into the tragic Minnesota shooting.

I urge that you go further, that ICE agents and DHS officials be investigated for not just this single shooting but all the potentially unlawful actions and violations of constitutional rights that they may be perpetrating in Minnesota and elsewhere in the nation.

I urge you to vote against any funding for DHS until these matters can be thoroughly and transparently investigated and any agents or officials having been found to have acted unlawfully or unconstitutionally are removed from their positions. The American people must be able to see that lawful, constitutional, and humane policies and practices are put into place and followed by ICE and DHS. If these organizations cannot act constitutionally and humanely they should be dismantled and reformed with new leadership, including up to the impeachment and conviction of the president if he and his administration continue in this unconstitutional manner.

I look to you as my Senator to uphold the Constitution and be a check on unlawful and unconstitutional actions of the federal government and the Trump administration.

Thank you,

Joshua Whiting
[Street Address Redacted]
Millcreek, Utah

I don’t know that there is any hope or reason to send a letter to Sen. Mike Lee, other than to maybe to get myself added to some kind of list of Democrats and other problematic constituents to ignore, if I’m not already there. Please correct me if you know something about this and I am wrong and it is worth contacting him.

I also just cancelled my Home Depot credit card for good measure. Not a big deal if you tell me Home Depot is actually wonderful now and doesn’t support or collaborate with ICE anymore, because I haven’t used the account in a year or two anyway.

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Standalone post link: Letter to Sen. Curtis RE: ICE Investigation

The long-haired chihuahua stood on the armrest of the passenger seat and gazed at me serenely through the window of the white minivan, an actual American flag draped behind it, shrouding the entire second row of the van.

The most noble and patriotic of long-haired chihuahuas, it did not once bark or agitate at my presence, its luscious, golden locks just brushed and billowing in the slightest of breezes, likewise the flag billowing behind it, perhaps the vehicle’s air conditioning causing the effect. I regarded and saluted in my heart, but could not stop in the middle of the handicapped parking area to take a picture, and so instead continued with my raucous shopping cart to my car and made this note.

(4:50:38 PM @ Winco Parking Lot, South Salt Lake (40.72347533489298,-111.8903883259518, 4265ft elev))

Sunset, the geese again standing and sitting in the softball fields. At least fifty Canada geese safe and at ease in the grass behind the towering chain-link fences, an impromptu suburban wildlife refuge in the peach particulate haze. I continued driving.

(5:03:30 PM - @ 1300 East, Larry H. Miller Softball Complex, Big Cottonwood Regional Park, Millcreek (40.67538577924466,-111.8542093145097, 4314ft elev))

Standalone post link: Patriotic long-haired chihuahua and Canada geese softball sunset | Two pictures not taken on the way home from work, 2026-01-15

ART
is
PUNK
is
JOY¹
strong strokes of white paint on the back of the person’s long coat
walking down 1100 East toward Sugarhouse
drizzly dark January afternoon
cold but not as cold as it maybe should be

(4:03:18 PM - Salt Lake City (40.728079, -111.859654))

Standalone post link: ART is PUNK is JOY | Picture Not Taken