Kinda dismal breakthrough today in work on the new MPG album: "Hey, what if we just leave out this song, and this one, and this one, and these poems too? They're good, but not great, and they're all incredibly bitter, and if we cut all that then tada! Production is back on schedule again."

Happy birthday to The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince! May he spend his day contemplating a long future confined in the company of hundreds of grumpy men with impulse control issues, unpleasant skills, and daughters they worry about constantly.

Walk dog, check. Wake, dress, and feed kids, put 'em on the bus, check. Trash to dump, check. Yoga class, check. Groceries, check. Coffee for wife, check. Dig hole and bury old friend, check. Put away groceries, walk dog, check. Now I have an hour before I have to go get the kids. Time to grieve.

There's a constant hum in my head saying "I would be a happier person if I wasn't failing to make music."

But I would also probably be a happier person if I wasn't trying to make music.

Chance the super sweet grey and white cat has, after 19 very good years, concluded his time as a cat. He passed in his sleep last night next to the wood stove, his favorite place. Nobody could have asked for a better cat life, a better cat death, or a better cat companion. https://youtu.be/ZfX0GgSETmQ?si=iiCSnX8chkhaiZpw

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/music-and-fascism/

A New Form of Activism: Getting Off Social Media | Psychology Today https://share.google/68BBMqt873Jf7Hphg

Hurray, the Amphetamine Library album is now out on vinyl!

POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Farewell, Friday; I am weary of you, and cold. Tomorrow a powerful madman will shock us all again just to prove he can, again, because he is simple and dull, and I shall celebrate my boy's birthday with whoever comes through the snow to join us, because he is beautiful and bright. So first I sleep.

To all my "Just vote!" friends out there: watch what King Donald is doing. The Republicans are clearly moving to completely control elections. It may well be too late for voting to matter again in our lifetimes.

FBI invites state election officials to an 'unusual' ... https://share.google/cuUIGmDQTdlJmYAqz

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/socrates

Sure yeah it'd be nice if every pedophile and sexual predator were prosecuted, but wouldn't that require a justice system that (a) valued the lives of women, children and the poor and (b) didn't allow wealth to influence the outcome of trials?

Society runs on systems. Ours need fixing.

hurray, temps in double digits, even above freezing tomorrow!

This is gonna be a helluva melt.

Maybe that'll be good for our crops or something.

Maybe something good will happen.

Eventually.

Oh the delights of a snow day in #Appalachia - making snow angels with the kids, working on a snow castle... for ten minutes, until the leashless dogs of the pistol-packing meth head next door come over to play, knocking over my boy and freaking out our dog.

The more I ponder, the more I find young people getting into face-to-face TTRPG's to be one of the most promising (and surprising) trends in contemporary society.

Another 14 hours of snowbound childcare and chores. In the past nine days I've left the premises once. Firewood, dogs, feed kids, fix toys, dishes, laundry, repeat.

It's a fine line between "stay at home Dad" and "house arrest."

Updated view from studio window