From @TheAthletic: A few years ago, Matt Berninger, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The National, was stuck with writer’s block. “I started getting depressed by notebooks.” So he wrote on a baseball instead. Then the words kept coming.
https://t.co/N6xoEhDOtU
Berninger doesn’t remember what he wrote on that first baseball, nearly four years ago.
All he knows is his wiring changed that day.
@BFQuinn sat down with The National singer-songwriter and frontman ⤵️
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“At that time, I started getting depressed by notebooks,” Berninger says.
“Whenever I’d see a notebook or an empty white page, it started to become a feeling — like, ah, there’s this thing I have to do.”
What he needed was somewhere else to write. He just had to find it.
A few years back, Matt Berninger, the singer-songwriter and frontman of @TheNational, had an idea, maybe even a good one.
At the time, such an idea was hard to come by. Writer’s block. And here he was with this passing thought, something worth writing down, but nowhere to put it. No notebook. Dead phone battery.
He then found a baseball and pushed a pen onto the rawhide.
A new story I'm pretty pumped to share. It's about words, and pastimes, and changing your traumas by changing your patterns.
On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing:
https://t.co/6R6RcJ4cZu
President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.
Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.
Those who witnessed Finell White do what he did were always left wondering where the comet went. After all, he averaged 55.6 PPG.
@BFQuinn on the unwritten history of White and a popular misspelling of his name.
🔗: https://t.co/XyTdimt3HK
There's a list out there on the internet, one tallying h.s. basketball's highest single-season scorers. The name on top isn't a familiar one. It's one that was without a story.
That's where we begin...
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I'm announcing that the federal government will cover 100% of the cost of measures to protect lives and property in Southern California for six months.
I’ve told the Governor and officials to spare no expense and do whatever they need to contain the fires and protect families.
After millions of views spreading lies about the Palisades firefighters lacking water because of regulations, the boring truth comes late like usual and wont be shared. Here it is:
1 - Reservoirs and water tanks were at normal levels and completely full before the fire.
2 - All 114 city water supply tanks were fully stocked pre-fire.
3 - A 15-hour surge at four times normal demand reduced water pressure.
4 - High demand at lower elevations slowed refilling tanks at higher elevations.
5 - This unprecedented fire was fueled by 8 months of no rain and 85 MPH winds. Water is being brought in continuously.
6 - Even if, like Trump claimed, the protection of the Delta Smelt caused over regulation by California, it's the FEDERAL Endangered Species Act that requires the protection of endangered species like the Delta Smelt and their habitats, not Gavin Newsom or California.
I expect the comments to me filled with people personally attacking me for putting this information out. All it does is show that you are unintelligent. Thanks.