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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-22 at 06:51

'Hold Me' (1982) holds a special place in my heart because A) I always liked it and B) it was the first Fleetwood Mac single released after I'd gotten a proper stereo in my room and I wasn't just listening to whatever was playing around me.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-22 at 06:44

Christine McVie came up in conversation this evening, and -- just in case you never realized quite what a songwriting powerhouse she was even in Fleetwood Mac's context of songwriting powerhouses -- I present this annotated track listing.

She was a total badass.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-21 at 04:12

People who aren’t bigots never have to explain how they aren’t bigots. People who don’t sieg heil never have to explain how that was only an awkward gesture.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-21 at 02:53

Strong redneck energy on the Strip tonight.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-21 at 02:23

It’ll be cute when they still say the Jan 6 rioters were antifa if that’s more convenient for their narrative.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-21 at 01:45

It’s weird being incorrectly corrected.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-20 at 03:38

Second location about to happen. I’m gonna get wasted tonight, not my usual style, but not a usual Sunday.,

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-20 at 01:38

At least there’s gin.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-20 at 01:38

The heart is heavy on this last night, one fears, of American democracy. Feels rather like we’re on the deck of the Titanic and it’s starting to tilt.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-19 at 21:09

Oh! And meant to say last night. But an added bonus at Nora’s is in this bill for pre-dinner drinks. Easily the best value anywhere I go. Basically two for the price of one.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-19 at 20:58

It’s just wild that they have scriptures positively littered with verses that explicitly warn against the deceptive powers of the wicked—without ever considering THEY might be deceived.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-19 at 20:50

All those years I rolled my eyes at fundamentalist evangelical relatives who believed in the coming of a literal antichrist.

Never suspecting they—themselves—would fulfill their own prophecy by putting in the White House a man who lives and breathes in active defiance of everything Christ taught while masquerading as an angel of light.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-19 at 02:31

My martini just materialized, so that will help.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-19 at 02:30

Got here early, waiting for friends and a table, and the dude next to me is so jittery I really need him to start drinking his martini.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-19 at 00:48

Very sorry to see Joan Plowright has died. Someone posted this -- in conversation with Maggie Smith and Judi Dench -- when Smith died. Their lack of vanity and professional pragmatism is amusing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VxsyjMv1d8

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-18 at 23:35

Oh how curious. They’re in DC but didn’t have to move this large outdoor event indoors.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-18 at 22:58

Mom took me to the hospital when I needed a minor surgery at Christmas. She tilted her head when the nurse checking me in asked my height and I said five-nine.

Afterwards, as we walked to the prep area, Mom said 'I thought you were five-ten.' And I said I'd thought that, too, until my early 20s when a girl laughed at me and said 'You are NOT five-ten.' So, I rounded down to five-nine and no one has disputed my stated height since.

Anyway, Mom's still laughing at how I arrived at this figure.

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-18 at 20:47

Do you suppose the Popeyes that’s been in my trunk for a week—purchased on a whim during errands and promptly forgotten—is still good?

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-18 at 17:33

My sister just sent this -- a tour of the Palisades before the fire. The first neighborhood they drive through is completely gone. The second hit very hard. Also a bustling village.

It's a kind of random route that doesn't cover everything and circles back on itself. But it does give a good sense of the way it was just driving around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dihav6KBZaU

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Written by Mats Holberg on 2025-01-18 at 07:14

Really can’t recommend Hitler’s Aristocrats enough. Exactly what’s happening now.

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