Byeeeeeeeee! I’ll miss old Twitter. It made me giggle and I found so many artists and comics that I love. But now it’s all engagement bait and bots and doom. Heading for bluer skies. 🦋 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋✌️
Leaving here soon. Find me on Bluesky (and sometimes Threads.) But I’m liking Bluesky because it’s not monetized so it’s not full of clickbait and trolls so far. ✌️
2016 - the day after the election - we performed Ride the Cyclone for the first time in New York City and at the end when Ocean says, “Democracy Rocks!” The audience literally groaned because Trump had just been elected. It feels way worse this time tho.
*GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOANS
This is so clearly not Melania it’s silly. I need one of these Fauxlanias to tell all. How much do they pay you? Do you get to keep the sunglasses? Did you secretly vote for Kamala in the booth? Please spill.
I’m convinced he keeps bringing up Hannibal Lecter because Lecter was in an “asylum” and he thinks immigrants getting “asylum” means they are coming into the country and going to asylums. He doesn’t know the difference. I am convinced.
Trump appears to be unraveling live on stage
“When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of— Well, that's genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him. Silence of the Lambs. Who the hell else would even remember that? I have a great memory, but they always hit me. I don't bring it up too much because they have to take such a— he brought up Hannibal Lecter. What does that have to do with this? What is it? It has everything to do with it, right? He was… So I've done something for you for you that I haven't done in 20 speeches. I brought up Doctor Hannibal Lecter and we're allowing him, you watch, you watch these fake people will say again, he brought up Hannibal Lecter has absolutely nothing to do. You know I do the weave, right? The weave. It's genius. You bring up Hannibal Lecter, you mention insane asylum. Hannibal Lecter. You go out, no. There'll be a time in life where the weave won't finish properly at the bottom and then we can talk. But right now it's pure genius. Hey, I have an uncle, my uncle, Uncle John, my father's brother, 41 years at MIT, longest serving professor has so many degrees, he didn't know what the hell to do with them all in the most complicated. I understand a lot of this stuff, you know, I believe in that. Like, I mean, Jack Nicklaus is not gonna produce a bad golfer. Right. You know, that's the way it works. It's just one of those things and it's in the family and it's whatever”
Happy Ride the Cyclone Day eve. Leave crumbs out for Virgil, hang your school uniforms on the mantle, and bake a Hello Kitty cupcake or Karnak will put you on the naughty list.
Do something that scares you every day.
If you do that, then each day, little by little, you will be scared. Every day will be scary, and your life will be very scary. 💫