Lyrical Garfield 🎶 
Luigi de Guzman
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Professional pedant. Grit doubter. he/him/el/siya. “Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinganggalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan” 5x Jeopardy Champion.
Huh, Six Nations rugby on CNBC?
CNBC is the weirdest channel. During the work week it is full of stock market bullshit. During the weekend they have no idea how to fill the air time
mekka okereke 
Citizens! *Puts on steel toed boots* I urge you to remain calm at this moment! *loads rubber bullets into launcher* violence is not the answer! *Hangs night stick from belt* We grieve with your community! *Pulls reflective visor down on helmet* Peace is what this moment calls for *climbs into tank* The great MLK Jr said and I quote: I love police, and they are our friends! *diesel engine roars* So obey, comply, and remember we are in this together! *Tear gas launcher slowly points towards crowd*
Are we ready to talk about how police dressing in riot gear and acting, well, like cops, makes crowds more likely to riot? No? OK then. Proceed.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/01/why-so-many-police-are-handling-the-protests-wrong
There is something incredibly ghoulish about the networks going to live coverage anticipating civil unrest after showing video of the police murdering a man.
I've never seen Philip Glass's "Einstein on the Beach" but the five "Knee Plays" from the opera are incredible representations of what the inside of my brain feels like sometimes.
Knee Play 1 (live) - Philip Glass, "Einstein on the Beach"
90's music headcanon: "Possum Kingdom" by The Toadies and "Got You Where I Want You" by The Flys are both songs about the same guy in the same situation.
Every time I listen to a John Denver song, it makes me wonder that there's another universe out there where Jimmy Carter wins a second term as President. Imagine how different our world would be.
We prayed so hard to be delivered from Ernie Grunfeld that in the end all we got was Grunfeld's understudy.
A former classmate just posted that she was going to start training to run a 50-mile race. I told her that she was going to do it, and she was going to do great.
One of the nice things about being even a minimum-level friend is that you get to encourage & be happy for your friends doing stuff, even if it's stuff you'd never ever try or be able to do.