So I don’t really know Miguel but I do know Joe and I think if he knows you’ve been having it rough lately he would pick you up and take you to a spontaneous location out in the Wyoming wilderness surrounded by wildflowers with the Grand Tetons in the distance and he would’ve packed things for luxury camping.
He also would’ve bought all your favorite food and you guys cuddle while under the open sky.
Ah!! Haven't had the chance to keep up with the show yet but I needed this so much! 🤧💗
Searched Grand Teton on Pinterest and omg, you know I'd do just about anything to see it with my own eyes 💗
Watching Joe has been an experience, coming from someone who's never been to the U.S, so the idea of living in a log cabin at an area like this is so nice!! But that's besides the point!
Just the thought of Joe and his girls quietly making food downstairs while they let you take a nap for a bit so the two of you can have a picnic? 🥺 The girls would also write little cards which are both wacky and meaningful before slotting them in the basket.
You're immediately surprised when you open your eyes to see Sherry, Lucy and April in front of you, sharing a cheeky grin.
"What's going on?" You'd murmur in the pillow, half-smiling at the sight before you.
"Dad's gonna drop us off at the Flags!" Lucy would say. You'd raise your brow, you don't remember that being in today's schedule.
"Ah, well, I'll be ready in five minutes." Before you could move the blanket off, Sherry stopped you.
"S'okay, dad wants you to get ready for later."
"... For what?" I narrowed my eyes at them playfully, prompting them to giggle.
"He wants to take you out on a date." April replied, their amusements growing louder. You could only imagine what Joe had in mind, but for now, you pulled April in a bear hug. Sherry and Lucy would jump on the bed with you, wrapping their little arms around you as the four of you laugh.
A heavenly sound to a certain game warden himself, listening in from the floor below.
You'd say your goodbyes to the girls, telling them to send your regards to Mr & Mrs Flag before getting ready. It wasn't too sunny nor cloudy the whole day; the best hint you got out of the girls about the date was their emphasization on the 'out' part.
You'd hear Joe's truck the same time you'll come down, noticing the basket on the kitchen counter. Before you could even take a peek, Joe comes in with a playful "Ah-ah, hands off the goodies, ma'am."
You'd pout but listened to him anyways as he grabbed the basket in one hand before wrapping his arm around you with the other. You'd give him a quick peck on his lips before asking, "Do you... Do you remember anything about the girls staying over at the Flags today?"
"Nope, we just called them about it this morning."
"And... Rick's okay with that?"
"You know he actually has a soft spot for the girls," Joe grinned, suddenly peppering your cheek with kisses, "Plus, I made sure to call when his wife was with him so he can't say no."
You'd gasp, playfully nudging him for his lil' trick. He'd laugh with before motioning you to the truck, "C’mon, little lady."
He'd drive at a comfortable pace, giving you both a chance to talk about whatever, be it work, a show you've been watching or even the family of red foxes you and the girls saw walking in front of the house.
Or if you don't wanna talk, that's fine too! He'll just hold your hand, steering the truck with the other. He'd stroke the back of your hand with his thumb or even pat your thigh rhythmically, occasionally humming the song on the radio.
Your look of awe as you'd take a good look of the view was absolutely endearing. It wouldn't take long for the two of you to arrive, a perfect stop where you'd see both the beautiful flowers and the Grand Teton itself.
Joe wouldn't let you help him with with anything, telling you to just 'stand there and look pretty for me'. The basket had sandwiches, bites, some salad and fruits, no-bake desserts the girls had made and a flask of iced tea.
"It was all we could prepare in two hours." Joe rubbed the back of his neck. You'd shake your head, swaying with him as you'd embrace one another.
"It's perfect."
And that's how you'd spend the day together, pointing at the pretty lil' birds flying by, feeding each other the delicacies him and the girls have made, reading the cards they’ve written for you, then chilling on the mat together; letting him pull your to his chest as you'd listen to him ramble.
"I love you." He'd whisper in your ear, kissing the crown of your head and reminding you that even the Picketts need a little break.
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George Harrison, backstage in Philadelphia, PA, on August 16, 1966; photo by Bob Bonis.
“[George showed us] his music room, which has one wall covered with the famous Harrison guitars, his collection of Indian instruments and a small jukebox standing just by the door. I looked at the titles on the jukebox and there were very few Beatle songs amongst them. The Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, Lovin’ Spoonful, the Stones were all well represented.” - The Beatles Monthly, January 1967
“George Harrison’s Fab Forty…
George — like all the Beatles, incidentally — has his own juke box at his Esher home. It’s in his ‘den.’ Along with tape recorder, radio and record player. […] But back to the juke box. It’s a KB. Maybe you saw it in the film ‘Help’? Says George: ‘It’s so much easier to have all my favorite records on the juke box at once. It saves me going through piles of records to find the ones I want. Then when I get sick of them, I just throw them out and put some new ones in.” - Tony Hall, Record Mirror, January 1, 1966
George’s Top Ten…
1 “Harlem Shuffle” — Bob and Earl
2 “Good Things Come To Those Who Wait” — Chuck Jackson
3 “Be My Lady”/“Red Beans and Rice” — Booker T and the MGs
4 “Please Crawl Out Your Window” — Bob Dylan
5 “Baby, You’re My Everything” — Little Jerry Williams
6 “Back Street” — Edwin Starr
7 “Work, Work, Work” — Lee Dorsey
8 “The Little Girl I Once Knew” — The Beach Boys
9 “My Girl Has Gone” — The Miracles
10 “I Don’t Know What You’ve Got /But It’s Got Me)” — Little Richard (“[P]arts one and two — the second is George’s favorite.”)
The rest…
11 “I Can’t Turn You Loose” — Otis Redding
12 “My Girl” — Otis Redding
13 “I Believe I’ll Love On” — Jackie Wilson
14 “Plum Nellie” — Booker T and the MGs
15 “Everything Is Gonna Be Alright” — Willie Mitchell
16 “A Sweet Woman Like You” — Joe Tex
17 “Something About You” — The Four Tops
18 “I Got You” — James Brown
19 “Ain’t That Peculiar” — Marvin Gaye
20 “Turn, Turn, Turn” — The Byrds
21 “See Saw” — Don Covay
22 “I’m Comin’ Through” — Sounds Incorporated
23 “Don’t Fight It” — Wilson Pickett
24 “Bootleg” — Booker T and the MGs
25 “I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore” — The Young Rascals
26 “Respect” — Otis Redding
27 “Try Me”/“Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” — James Brown (“instrumentals”)
28 “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” — Otis Redding
29 “All Or Nothing” — Patty Labelle and her Belles
30 “Pretty Little Baby” — Marvin Gaye
31 “Oowee Baby, I Love You” — Fred Hughes
32 “The Tracks of My Tears” — The Miracles
33 “Yum Yum” — Joe Tex
34 “Agent 00 Soul” — Edwin Starr
35 “Money” — Barrett Strong
36 “Some Other Guy” — Ritchie Barrett
(“George’s ‘Revived 45’ list — he’s dug these since they first came out.”)
37 “It Wasn’t Me” — Chuck Berry
38 “Mohair Sam” — Charlie Rich
39 “Let Him Run Wild” — The Beach Boys
40 “Do You Believe In Magic” — The Lovin’ Spoonful
“George really knows his records. It’s always a pleasure to talk to him about them.” - Tony Hall, Record Mirror, January 1, 1966 (x)
George's "Fab Forty" playlist: on YouTube, and on Spotify.
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“I’m here now.”
“But I’m here.”
Are you ever, like, pretty sure that another show’s creator has probably seen the X-Files...but then you know they definitely have?
“Endangered,” Joe Pickett, 1x09
“One Breath,” The X-Files, 2x08
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist
(Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)
Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk
Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop
Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul
Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B
Something To Do - IGBO - Funk
Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop
Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae
Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk
FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B
Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul
Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock
Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall
Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk
Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz
Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop
Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues
Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat
Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie
Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop
Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk
When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B
Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul
Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk
Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae
Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House
Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk
Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B
Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop
Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues
Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock
Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul
Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop
Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B
Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul
The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House
Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk
What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop
Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues
Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul
Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique
Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk
Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock
BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop
The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B
DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul
See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop
Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk
Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul
Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk
Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock
Toast - Koffee - Dancehall
Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B
Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop
High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian
Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul
The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk
Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie
Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop
WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House
BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B
Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul
.img - Brother Theodore - Funk
Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues
Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop
Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House
Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk
Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic
Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B
Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul
Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk
quand c’est - Stromae - Pop
Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae
Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B
Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues
Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul
Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop
Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk
Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative
Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B
Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul
Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues
Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop
Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop
Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou
Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop
Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B
New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk
I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop
Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul
Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz
Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk
The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat
Fast Lane - Rationale - House
Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk
Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B
Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock
Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop
God Knows - Dornik - Soul
Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk
Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz
Get Back - McClenney - Alternative
Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul
Spotify playlist
In memory of:
Aaron Bailey
Adam
Addie Mae Collins
Ahmaud Arbery
Aiyana Stanley Jones
Akai Gurley
Alberta Odell Jones
Alexia Christian
Alfonso Ferguson
Alteria Woods
Alton Sterling
Amadou Diallo
Amos Miller
Anarcha Westcott
Anton de Kom
Anthony Hill
Antonio Martin
Antronie Scott
Antwon Rose Jr.
Arthur St. Clair
Atatiana Jefferson
Aubrey Pollard
Aura Rosser
Bennie Simons
Berry Washington
Bert Dennis
Bettie Jones
Betsey
Billy Ray Davis
Bobby Russ
Botham Jean
Brandon Jones
Breffu
Brendon Glenn
Breonna Taylor
Bud Johnson
Bussa
Calin Roquemore
Calvin McDowell
Calvin Mike and his family
Carl Cooper
Carlos Carson
Carlotta Lucumi
Carol Denise McNair
Carol Jenkins
Carole Robertson
Charles Curry
Charles Ferguson
Charles Lewis
Charles Wright
Charly Leundeu Keunang
Chime Riley
Christian Taylor
Christopher Sheels
Claude Neal
Clementa Pickney
Clifford Glover
Clifton Walker
Clinton Briggs
Clinton R. Allen
Cordella Stevenson
Corey Carter
Corey Jones
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd
Cynthia Wesley
Daniel L. Simmons
Danny Bryant
Darius Randell Robinson
Darius Tarver
Darrien Hunt
Darrius Stewart
David Felix
David Joseph
David McAtee
David Walker and his family
Deandre Brunston
Deborah Danner
Delano Herman Middleton
Demarcus Semer
Demetrius DuBose
Depayne Middleton-Doctor
Dion Johnson
Dominique Clayton
Dontre Hamilton
Dred Scott
Edmund Scott
Ejaz Choudry
Elbert Williams
Eleanor Bumpurs
Elias Clayton
Elijah McClain
Eliza Woods
Elizabeth Lawrence
Elliot Brooks
Ellis Hudson
Elmer Jackson
Elmore Bolling
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.
Emmett Till
Eric Garner
Eric Harris
Eric Reason
Ernest Lacy
Ernest Thomas
Ervin Jones
Eugene Rice
Eugene Williams
Ethel Lee Lance
Ezell Ford
Felix Kumi
Frank Livingston
Frank Morris
Frank Smart
Frazier B. Baker
Fred Hampton
Fred Rochelle
Fred Temple
Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.
George Floyd
George Grant
George Junius Stinney Jr.
George Meadows
George Waddell
George Washington Lee
Gregory Gunn
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore
Harry Tyson Moore
Hazel “Hayes” Turner
Henry Ezekial Smith
Henry Lowery
Henry Ruffin
Henry Scott
Hosea W. Allen
India Kager
Isaac McGhie
Isadore Banks
Italia Marie Kelly
Jack Turner
Jamar Clark
Jamel Floyd
James Byrd Jr.
James Craig Anderson
James Earl Chaney
James Powell
James Ramseur
James Tolliver
James T. Scott
Janet Wilson
Jason Harrison
Javier Ambler
J.C. Farmer
Jemel Roberson
Jerame Reid
Jesse Thornton
Jessie Jefferson
Jim Eastman
Joe Nathan Roberts
John Cecil Jones
John Crawford III
John J. Gilbert
John Ruffin
John Taylor
Johnny Robinson
Jonathan Ferrell
Jonathan Sanders
Jordan Edwards
Joseph Mann
Julia Baker
Julius Jones
July Perry
Junior Prosper
Kalief Browder
Karvas Gamble Jr.
Keith Childress, Jr.
Kelly Gist
Kelso Benjamin Cochrane
Kendrick Johnson
Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.
Kenny Long
Kevin Hicks
Kevin Matthews
Kiwane Albert Carrington
Lacy Mitchell
Lamar Smith
Laquan McDonald
Laura Nelson
Laura Wood
L.B. Reed
L.D. Nelson
Lemuel Penn
Lemuel Walters
Leonard Deadwyler
Leroy Foley
Levi Harrington
Lila Bella Carter
Lloyd Clay
Louis Allen
Lucy
M.A. Santa Cruz
Maceo Snipes
Malcom X
Malice Green
Malissa Williams
Manuel Ellis
Marcus Deon Smith
Marcus Foster
Marielle Franco
Mark Clark
Maria
Martin Lee Anderson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Matthew Avery
Mary Dennis
Mary Turner
Matthew Ajibade
May Noyes
Mckenzie Adams
Medgar Wiley Evers
Michael Brown
Michael Donald
Michael Griffith
Michael Lee Marshall
Michael Lorenzo Dean
Michael Noel
Michael Sabbie
Michael Stewart
Michelle Cusseaux
Miles Hall
Moses Green
Mya Hall
Myra Thompson
Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr.
Natasha McKenna
Nicey Brown
Nicholas Heyward Jr.
O’Day Short family
Orion Anderson
Oscar Grant III
Otis Newsom
Pamela Turner
Paterson Brown Jr.
Patrick Dorismond
Philando Castile
Phillip Pannell
Phillip White
Phinizee Summerour
Quaco
Ramarley Graham
Randy Nelson
Raymond Couser
Raymond Gunn
Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Rekia Boyd
Renisha McBride
Riah Milton
Robert Hicks
Robert Mallard
Robert Truett
Rodney King
Roe Nathan Roberts
Roger Malcolm and his wife
Roger Owensby Jr.
Ronell Foster
Roy Cyril Brooks
Rumain Brisbon
Ryan Matthew Smith
Sam Carter
Sam McFadden
Samuel DuBose
Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr.
Samuel Hammond Jr.
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr.
Sandra Bland
Sean Bell
Shali Tilson
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Shukri Abdi
Simon Schuman
Slab Pitts
Stella Young
Stephon Clark
Susie Jackson
T.A. Allen
Tamir Rice
Tamla Horsford
Tanisha Anderson
Timothy Caughman
Timothy Hood
Timothy Russell
Timothy Stansbury Jr.
Timothy Thomas
Terrence Crutcher
Terrill Thomas
Tom Jones
Tom Moss
Tony McDade
Tony Terrell Robinson Jr.
Trayvon Martin
Troy Hodge
Troy Robinson
Tula
Tyler Gerth
Tyre King
Tywanza Sanders
Victor Duffy Jr.
Victor White III
Walter Lamar Scott
Wayne Arnold Jones
Wesley Thomas
Wilbert Cohen
Wilbur Bundley
Will Brown
Will Head
Will Stanley
Will Stewart
Will Thompson
Willie James Howard
Willie Johnson
Willie McCoy
Willie Palmer
Willie Turks
William Brooks
William Butler
William Daniels
William Fambro
William Green
William L. Chapman II
William Miller
William Pittman
Wyatt Outlaw
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins
The victims of LaLaurie (1830s)
The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868)
The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887)
The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898)
The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910)
The black victims of the Red summer (1919)
The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919)
The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920)
The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)
All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.
All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness.
All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination.
...
My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories.
Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)
Documentaries:
13th (Netflix)
The Innocence Files (Netflix)
Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro
YouTube videos:
We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd
Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch)
Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)
Books:
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
White Fragility by Robin Deangelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Websites:
https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/
https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up
https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/
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Tennessee playlist
I’m going to Memphis!
This is the mighty Tennessee - Memphis & Nashville playlist.
You can’t tell the story of rock n roll without mentioning Memphis.
Mississippi and Nashville, such a great history of music in this region.
Chuck D hits things off with the ultimate introduction.
Hit play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_X9nesbW37-9FNLiJWOQ1f
This playlist has it all. Soul, blues and rock n roll. We take a journey back to the beginning of country as well, with Nashville and finish up at Dollywood.
Hope you dig it.
Tennessee - Mississippi - Arkansas
001 Henry Rollins & Chuck D - Rise Above
002 Clutch - Devil & Me
003 Paul Simon - Graceland
004 Isaac Hayes - Memphis Trax
005 Scott Walker - Thats How I Got to Memphis
006 AC/DC - let there be rock
007 Johnny Cash - Country Boy
008 Chuck Berry - Back To Memphis
009 Jay Reatard - Gree, Money, Useless Children
010 Lukah - Black Dragon
011 King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
012 Rosetta Howard & the Harlem Hamfats - Delta Bound
013 Nots - In Glass
014 Pere Ubu - Memphis
015 Loretta Lynn - The Pill
016 Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin
017 Rory Gallagher - The Mississippi Sheiks
018 Crime and the City Solution - Streets Of West Memphis
019 River City Tanlines - Met You Before
020 Johnny Cash - Going To Memphis
021 Al Green - Get Back Baby
022 Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - The Zipper
023 Booker T & the MG - Melting Pot
024 Pussycat - Mississippi
025 Boswell Sisters - Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On
026 Aretha Franklin - Muddy Water
027 The Cramps - Garbageman
028 HASH REDACTOR - Good Sense
029 Optic Sink - Personified
030 Angry Angles - Blockhead
031 Big Star - Thirteen
032 Memphis Jug Band - Going Back to Memphis
033 North Mississippi AllStars - K.C. Jones (On The Road Again)
034 Bass Drum Of Death - Bad Reputation
035 Today Is the Day - The Devil's Blood
036 Walk the Line Soundtrack- Get Rhythm
037 Jack White - Temporary Ground
038 Jerry Lee Lewis - A Damn Good Country Song
039 The Homemade Jamz Blues Band - Rumors
040 Saving Abel - Pine Mountain (The Dance of the Poor Proud Man)
041 The Oxford Circle - Foolish Woman
042 Bobbie Gentry - Greyhound Goin' Somewhere
043 Reigning Sound - A Little More Time
044 NINA SIMONE - MISSISSIPPI GODDAM!
045 Laurie Anderson - Hiawatha
046 Glen Campbell - Burning Bridges
047 Dolly Parton - Hillbilly Willy
048 Elvis Presley - Guitar Man
049 Blue Oyster Cult - Divine Wind
050 Sammy Hagar - Halfway To Memphis
051 Izzy Stradlin - Memphis
052 Johnny Cash - Run Softly, Blue River
053 Iron Horse - Unchained
054 The Cramps - Human Fly
055 Faces - Memphis
056 Jack Oblivian - Rat City
057 The Cooters - Bustin' Loose
058 Mott the Hoople - All The Way From Memphis
059 Dusty Springfield - Breakfast in Bed
060 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo
061 Chicago - Blues In The Night
062 Crossin Dixon - Guitar Slinger
063 Strummin' With The Devil - And the Cradle Will Rock
064 Stray Cats - Can't Go Back to Memphis
065 Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
066 Suzi Quatro - Can't Trust Love
067 Lost Sounds - There's Nothing
068 Ike & Tina Turner ~ River Deep, Mountain High
069 Neil Diamond - Memphis Flyer
070 Julien Baker - hardline
071 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Memphis Soul Typecast
072 Isaac Hayes - Groove-A-Thon
073 Otis Clay - Trying To Live My Life Without You
074 Tim McGraw - Don't Mention Memphis
075 Eric Burdon & War - Blues For Memphis Slim
076 Homemade Jamz Blues Band - Blues Train
077 Sweet Knives - I DON'T WANNA DIE
078 Cream - Four Until Late
079 Grateful Dead - Golden Road
080 Huey Lewis and the NEWS - Function At The Junction
081 The Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf
082 Jesse Winchester_ The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
083 Dorsey Burnette - Tall Oak Tree
084 Field Music - Time In Joy
085 Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
086 The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
087 Quintron & Miss Pussycat - Block the comet
088 Al Green - Let's Stay Together
089 The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives
090 Johnny Cash - Tennessee Flat Top Box
091 Robert Pete Williams & Robert “Guitar" J. Welch - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
092 MARY JAMES - MAKE THE DEVIL LEAVE ME ALONE
093 Ministry - Mississippi Queen
094 U.S. Bombs - Rocks in Memphis
095 Nazareth - Jet Lag
096 The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost
097 Ty Segall - Despoiler Of Cadaver
098 His Hero Is Gone - Like Weeds
099 Jerry Lee Lewis - Memphis Beat
100 Generation X = King Rocker
101 The Doobie Brothers - Wild Ride
102 Bad Company - Whiskey Bottle
103 Black Stone Cherry - When The Weight Comes Down
104 Buddy Miles - Memphis Train
105 Memphis Slim - Rockin' The House (Beer Drinkin' Woman)
106 David Clayton Thomas - Wish The World Would Come to Memphis
107 Lost Sounds - Better Than Somethings
108 Alice Cooper - Ubangi Stomp
109 Tom Waits - Don't Go Into The Barn
110 Hank Snow - Music Makin' Mama From Memphis
111 Phil Ochs - Heres to the State of Misssippi
112 Reigning Sound - Your Love Is A Fine Thing
113 Pixies - Letter to Memphis
114 Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
115 The Colorblind James Experience - Considering A Move To Memphis
116 B.B.King - Rock Me Baby
117 Carla Thomas - B-A-B-Y
118 Aquarian Blood - A Love That Leads To War
119 Nights Like These - Scavenger's Daughter
120 Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog
121 Clutch - The House That Peterbilt
122 Lyal Strickland - O Arkansas
123 Don Bryant - How Do I Get There
124 The Sensational Barnes Brothers - Trying To Go Home
125 Squirrel Nut Zippers - Memphis Exorcism
126 Faster Pussycat - Tattoo
127 The Rolling Stones - Memphis Tennessee
128 Alcatrazz - Sons And Lovers
129 Evil Army - Violence And War
130 Deep Purple - Somebody Stole My Guitar (Purpendicular 11)
131 Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs
132 UFO - Natural Thing
133 Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys - Tennessee
134 Confederate Railroad - Queen of Memphis
135 The Box Tops - The Letter
136 Jerry Lee Lewis - Night Train To Memphis
137 Reverend John Wilkins - Trouble
138 Phil Lynott - Kings Call (feat. Mark Knopfler)
139 Old Crow Medicine Show - Motel in Memphis
140 Candy Lee- Here in Arkansas
141 Pharoah Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom
142 Molly Hatchet - Mississippi Moon Dog
143 Rwake - Crooked Rivers
144 CARL PERKINS & PAUL SIMON - A Mile Out Of Memphis
145 Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
146 Al Green - Talk to me
147 Mush - Eat the Etiquette
148 PJ Harvey - Memphis
149 EX-CULT - Clinical Study
150 Isaac Hayes - Mans Temptation
151 Lil’ Jon & Eastside Boyz - Rep Yo City
152 Rufus Wainwright - Memphis Skyline
153 Stray Cats - 18 Miles to Memphis
154 Amasa Hines - Earth and Sky
155 Joe Henderson - Back Road
156 Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash - Memphis Woman
157 Norma Jean - Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste
158 Fess Parker - Ballad of Davy Crockett
159 Assjack - Redneck Ride
160 Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth - Social Lube
161 The Replacements - Alex Chilton
162 Ann Peebles - The handwriting is on the wall
163 The Highwaymen - Big River
164 The Cult - Memphis Hip Shake
165 STEVE EARLE - Hillbilly Highway
166 The BO-KEYS featuring OTIS CLAY -Got To Get Back
167 Rush - Tom Sawyer
168 Class Of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming - Birth Of Rock And Roll
169 Hank Williams Jr - Memphis Belle
170 Sam Moore & Dave Prater - Soul Man
171 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Bloc Bloc Bloc
172 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In
173 Linda Heck - pictures of dead people
174 Carla Thomas - Sugar
175 Three Mafia 6 - Mystic Stylez
176 Osborne Brothers- Rocky Top
177 The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song
178 Wilson Pickett - Barefootin'
179 Dolly Parton - Jolene
180 Charlie Daniels - long haired country boy
181 The Civil Wars - From This Valley
182 Jill Jack - Gettin' On In Memphis (The Elvis Song)
183 Huckleberry Finn and His Friends - Opening title
184 Dead Cross - Skin of a Redneck
185 Johnny Cash - I Never Picked Cotton
186 Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
187 Isaac Hayes - That love feeling
188 Aretha Franklin - I say a little prayer
189 Little Milton - What Do You Do When You Love Somebody
190 Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful
191 Weird Al" Yankovic - Money For Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies
192 The Oblivians - I'll Be Gone
193 OT Sykes - Stone crush on you
194 The Mad Lads - Come closer to me
195 The Box Tops - Choo Choo train
196 Bobby Blue Bland - dreamer
197 Wanda Jackson - Rip It Up
198 Junior Parker - Love Ain't Nothin' but a Business Goin' On
199 The Nightingales ft. Tommy Tate - Just a Little Overcome
200 The Louvin Brothers - Satan is real
201 Overture "Big River" - (1985 Original Broadway Cast)
202 Ike & Tina Turner - Shake
203 Playa Fly - fly shit
204 Adia Victoria - Different Kind Of Love
205 Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed
206 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Backwoods
207 Otis Redding - Tennessee Waltz
208 Nashville Pussy - The Late Great USA
209 The Paperhead - The true poet
210 Tomahawk - South Paw
211 Night Beats - Her Cold Cold Heart
212 Forest of Tygers - human monster
213 LOSS - All Grows on Tears
214 Charlie McCoy - Wayfaring Stranger
215 Dick Stusso - Modern Music
216 Eddie Noack - Aint the Reaping Ever Done
217 Jason & the Scorchers - Greetings From Nashville
218 Jasmin Kaset and Quichenight - A Single Right Word
219 Gospel Keynotes - Give Me My Flowers
220 WEEN - Scrape the Mucus off My Brain
221 Shannon Shaw - Broke My Own
222 The Jesus Lizard - Blue Shot
223 Eddy Arnold - Tennessee Stud
224 Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
225 Today Is The Day - Who Is The Black Angel?
226 Hank Williams Jnr - Tennessee River
227 The Dead Weather - Bone House
228 Every Mother's Nightmare - Long Haired Country Boy
229 Motley Crue - She goes down
230 Waylon Jennings - Tennessee
231 Dolly Parton - Down On Music Row
232 Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Lets Go Burn Ole Nashville Down
233 The Byrds - Nashville West
234 Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up
235 Bill Anderson ~ More Than A Bedroom Thing
236 Dottie West - Route 65 To Nashville
237 Intruder - The Martyr
238 Johnny Cash - Smiling Bill McCall
239 Lynard Skynyrd - Workin For MCA
240 The Everly Brothers - Nashville Blues
241 Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Elusive Dreams
242 Nashville Bluegrass Band - Im Gonna Love You
243 Ringo Starr - No-No Song
244 Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin'
245 The Lovin Spoonful - Nashville Cats
246 They Might Be Giants - James K. Polk
247 Commander Cody - Back To Tennessee
248 Wanda Jackson - Shakin' All Over
249 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Grand Ole Opry Song
250 Tomahawk - Flashback
251 Megadeth - Dystopia
252 Dolly Parton - Train, Train
253 The Clovers - One Mint Julep
254 Trampled By Turtles - Whiskey
255 Tom T. Hall - Nashville is a Groovy Little Town
256 Muddy Waters - I am the blues
257 Foo Fighters - Congregation
258 Pavement - Strings Of Nashville
259 Joe Ely - Tennessees Not The State Im In
260 Waylon Jennings - Nashville Bum
261 The Charmels - As Long As I Got You
262 Eve Maret - Do my thing
263 SABATON - 82nd All the Way
264 Halfway To Hazard - Welcome To Nashville
265 Nashville Pussy - Go Motherfucker Go
266 Indigo Girls - Nashville
267 Snarls - Walk In The Woods
268 Steeler - Cold Day in Hell
269 Strummin' With The Devil - Jamies Cryin'
270 spazz gummo love theme
271 The Cramps - Cornfed Dames
272 Saxon - Solid Ball Of Rock
273 Al Green - Tired of Being Alone
274 Soul Friction - It's Out Of My Hands
275 Today Is the Day - Wheelin'
276 Jackie Lynn - Odessa
277 The Jesus Lizard - Nub
278 Bully - Where To Start
279 Sonny Boy Williamson II - Lonesome Cabin
280 Tomahawk - God hates a coward
281 The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
282 Tom Waits - Jitterbug Boys
283 The Evil Dead Soundtrack - Bridge Out
284 Wanda Jackson - Thunder On The Mountain
285 Elvis Presley - Where Do I Go From Here
286 Booker T & the MGs - Back Home
287 Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - American Highway
288 Joe Ely - dream camera
289 Assjack - Tennessee Driver
290 Nashville Pussy - We Want A War
291 Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
292 Hank Williams, Jr. - Knoxville Courthouse Blues
293 ZZ Top - My Head's in Mississippi
294 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Honky Tonkin'
295 Dead Weather - Die by the Drop
296 The Black Belles - What can I do
297 Dolly Parton - Cowgirl And The Dandy
298 The Secret Sisters - I've Got a Feeling
299 Justin Townes Earle - Aint Got No Money
300 Tomahawk - M.E.A.T
301 Jex Thoth - The Places You Walk
302 Bill Carter - Road To Nowhere
303 Bill Dees (Roy Orbison back vocals) - Tennesse Owns My Soul
304 Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks
305 The Who - Whiskey Man
306 Hank Williams III - Crazed Country Rebel
307 The Lost Sounds - I Get Nervous
308 Big Star - September Gurls
309 ZZ Top - Whiskey n Mama
310 Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
666 Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllablecsesquedalymistic
Hit play: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_X9nesbW37-9FNLiJWOQ1f
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Asians in the American Civil War - Private Joseph L. Pierce
“Private Joseph L. Pierce was age 21 when he enlisted in the 14th Connecticut Infantry in August 1862. It's unclear how Pierce ended up in the United States. One story has it that his father sold him to Connecticut ship Captain Amos Peck for $6. Another story was that his brother sold him for $60. Still another was that Peck picked Pierce up while he was adrift in the South China Sea. Peck, a lifelong bachelor, turned the 10-year-old he called ‘Joe’ over to his mother in Connecticut. In his youth, Joe went to school with the Peck family children and formally became Joseph Pierce in 1853. He picked up his last name from President Franklin Pierce. Pierce worked as a farmer in New Britain, Connecticut, at the time of his military enlistment. He listed his birthplace as Canton in Kwangtung Province, China.
Pierce's regiment participated in the Battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17, 1862. He suffered some sickness during his time around Washington and was in the hospital for a time. He was assigned to the Quartermaster Department for a bit and rejoined the 14th in time for the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. in May 1863. The 14th had a distinguished role in the Gettysburg campaign. It fought on the north part of Cemetery Ridge on July 2 and was one of the units that helped repel Pickett's Charge. The 14th was primarily responsible for turning back Brig. Gen. James Pettigrew's North Carolina division. The 14th's regimental history says that during Pickett's charge, Pierce appeared "pig-tail and all, the only Chinese in the Army of the Potomac," but as history reflects, he wasn't in fact the only Soldier of Chinese descent. Today, you can see the 14th Memorial to the north of the grove of trees marking the high-water mark of the Confederacy.”
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I was a guest on @cerealsensei and @theanticool‘s podcast when this story broke a few weeks ago so I’m tapped out on it overall but I do have some thoughts I guess:
1- The Consumer ALWAYS wins
It may pain you (and me) to say that but it's true. If flyweight could move numbers, we'd still have the division in the UFC. Consumers, the folks who don't read stuff like this or spend hours watching podcasts about MMA but put money in the sport, never seemed to gravitate to 125 lbs. Now we can debate the hows or the whys (and I have in the past on here) but that's irrelevant now. The division didn't draw and couldn't draw. The UFC once felt safe enough to make their SECOND every FX show be built primarily around the start of the flyweight division. They once liked Mighty Mouse enough that he was their Go To draw for Fox. Others have pointed out that we're in the era where content trumps names---and the UFC thought SO little of what flyweight did bring that even in an era where nothing matters, Flyweight had to go. Think about that. Flyweight was in my opinion a bit too soon for its time (the UFC rolled it out RIGHT as they were still integrating 135 lbs and 145 lbs) and their fanbase which was still getting used to this sudden influx of smaller guys had a tough time grasping that. This, in turn, was made worse by....
2- Mighty Mouse didn't kill the division....alone.
Demetrious Johnson may be the best pound for pound fighter to ever do this wacky sport. That never mattered. It never WILL matter. Greatness is subjective and greatness doesn't always correlate to a financial payoff in the long run. Demetrious Johnson was probably the worst of the four choices the UFC could've gotten out of their opening tournament with Joe Benavidez, Ian McCall, Demetrious and Yasuhiro Urishitani. He was already slightly unpoular for wins over Kid Yamamoto and Miguel Torres and his run through the tournament saw him beat Ian McCall twice, once in controversial fashion, and then beat Mighty Mouse in a fight that Toronto soundly booed. When he became champ, it went from "The fans will eventually like him" to "the fans will get used to him as champion" to "Well he saves shows" to finally "WeIp we're stuck with him so shut up about it!" Demetrious is in many ways a victim of what he is; an average dude who happens to be really undersized and really amazing at fighting. I always found Demetrious to be poignant talking about fighting but he never struck me (or I guess anybody else) as the sort of personality who can carry a weight class. I remember one instance where he said Dave Sholler told him he should open up more and act like how he does when the cameras aren't on him and his first "joke" to Ariel Helwani was about how the only people who fight after hours in Vegas are him and people who beat their wives. It was cringy which I guess is sort of Johnson's overall problem with fans. He was cringy to some, obnoxious to others, nerdy to most and sort of unwanted to the party by all. It was a bad marriage and no attempts could save it. They went to Washington to try and spotlight him and it fell on its face. That's painful.
Now we can address the help he had in killing this thing. The UFC didn't promote it well and then got frustrated/complacent with Demetrious Johnson. It might not have saved anything but maybe a bit more effort would've helped on the back end. They could've tried and gone down swinging but they didn't. They accepted their fate pretty quickly with this division and decided to just ride the wave until it crashed. We as fans are responsible for not vehemently pushing him the way we rally around other guys. Demetrious Johnson is our Guillermo Rigondeaux which is unfortunate because while I see a ceiling for Mighty Mouse that limits him, he shouldn't be on the same level as the dude who made "HBO executives throw up in their mouths." Demetrious' finishing rate is among the best in the UFC, especially recently, but we sort of neglected that. We also never appreciated how busy he would be while other fighters and champions disappeared for months on end. There's a value to that. Also let's not act like a lot of us didn't groan for hours on end whenever Demetrious was announced as a headliner. We were unfair to him. The MMA media which took time out to remind the world of how small or skinny or how unpopular he was didn't help either. They helped wheel the narrative along. If the head of the division is so X, Y and Z then who is he beating? They must suck too, right? And then there are dudes like John Lineker, Ian McCall, Brandon Moreno, Luis Smolka, Brad Pickett and countless others who would get a little buzz and then either get hurt, lose right after or just disappear entirely.
3- Remember the humans here.
I hate to be all "Think of the children!" but a large number of pro fighters just lost their jobs. That's a part of the fight game of course but most of them are losing these jobs due to how tall they are (or aren't). Men with families/bills/homes so on so forth are now out of work and that's awful. These are real life humans having to lose their opportunity to make money to support themselves. There's no easy fair and simple way to write that off as a minor casualty of MMA's realignment. Take it one step further, the UFC is essentially telling smaller dudes that they don't want them anymore. Fighters in turn can look around the market and see that the other top two orgs may not be interested either. Bellator has shown zero propensity to find a way to get a 125 lb male weight class going (and I'd imagine Coker sat in those meetings and heard what was said/saw numbers) and the PFL I don't believe has a long term focus there either. Not every fighter dreams of having to fight overseas to make ends meet---so there's a good chance this move will cost MMA talent over the long haul. A lot or a little will be the question I guess but neither one is a very glamorous concept. Less fighters in the sport is a bad thing.
4- The allure of the TV fighter is gone
Even if Demetrious Johnson's numbers had shrunk to an insane degree on Fox, he was still a reliable and proven attraction. Even if audiences sampled him and decided "No thanks!", they were still getting a number out of him. In the content driven era of the ESPN deal, Mighty Mouse being able to fight a few times on ESPN Would be a pretty value draw or so you'd think. Unfortunately I think we can safely say that the draw and appeal of the free TV fighter is dead. That's a bad deal for guys who can't move numbers on PPV but can draw audiences to TV (Frankie Edgar, Donald Cerrone come to mind). Demetrious Johnson wasn't needed in an era where over 40 shows a year are going to happen. The flyweight division, home to anywhere from 30 to 50 fighters, wasn't needed in a year where the UFC will need over 20 fights to fill in the spaces they occupied. Everything is expendable currently or perhaps that's always been the case all along. This also begs the question as to whether or not ESPN had a hand in flyweights going away. Fox wanted flyweights (or encouraged it at least) and they're gone as we enter into 2019. Is this an ESPN mandate?
5- The Flyweight Division will exist in MMA so let's see who supports it.
It's fair to say that the end of the flyweight division in the UFC sucks. I would say it. It's unfair to act as if it's going away forever. In the United States, this is a dead deal. Flyweights aren't going to get picked up for a flyweight division if the leading organization in the world tried and failed. Most MMA organizations attempt to bastardize UFC ideas that work, not latch onto the failures. That said, the regional scene will be flush with flyweight fights so go out and support those orgs. Be one of those guys who hypes up Tachi Palace or a Titan FC or an LFA. If you've got a subscription service to a Fight Pass or DAZN or ONE and a flyweight fight is on, go and check it out. Don't get mad because the UFC did what you all wanted them to do and now you gotta find something new to be pissed about. If the flyweights mean that much to you then make sure to go out of your way to see them. MMA on a grander scale has never been more accesable if you want it to be.
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2017 Year End Survey Results
2017 Year End Survey!!!
Hi Friends…
Happy Valentine’s Day, we hope you’re all well and that love is in the air.
This email is going out to the awesome ones who responded to the poll (51 out of approximately 150 recipients). It turns out it hit a lot of people’s spam folders, so next year we will do a better job of clarifying the subject, etc.
As the survey has grown, there are now too many answers for us to add comments and include links, so this year the answers are coming as filtered lists (we cut where necessary, to try to be useful and concise).
Thank you so much for your answers!
Section 1: What is Tickling Your Brain
Meaningful Books
Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
Sapiens
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
American Eclipse
Cryptocurrency
Seven Mysteries of Life
Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom
Tiffany Haddish The Last Black Unicorn.
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Fourth State of Matter (New Yorker piece)
The President’s Devotional
Born a Crime
Creativity, Inc.
A Little Life
Hillbilly Elegy
Book of Joy by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
Don Quixote
Oryx and Crake
All the Rivers
The Fifth Season
The Nix
Persepolis Rising
The Female Brain
The Undoing Project
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
The Girls on The Train
Underground Railroad
When Breath Becomes Air
Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
The Innovators
Caine Mutiny
Pachinko
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
Saints for All Occasions
We Were 8 Years in Power
The Odyssey: A Father a Son & an Epic
Achilles in Vietnam
Zero to One
The Taste of Empire
May We Be Forgiven
Homegoing
Being Mortal
Born to Run
The Smartest Kids in the World
Groovy Song or Band (well known artists/songs were filtered out, focusing on discovery)
James Booker
“Sound of Silence” - Disturbed
Electrocutioner – Soraia
Flamingo
I’m The One
Sharkmuffin
Chicano Batman
Lord Echo
Jason Isbell
Hank 3
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
Zodiac by Dave Douglas and friends
Static and Ben El Tavori
Ben Franklin’s Song (the Decembrists)
Kevin Morby
CHVRCHES
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Secret Weapons
Squirrel Nut Zippers, Metropolitan Klezmer
Dr. Dog’s Abandoned Mansion
Old Crow Medicine Show
De La Soul
Despair
The XX
Favorite Apps or Websites (well known apps/sites were filtered out, focusing on discovery)
Autodesk Graphic, Robinhood
Kaggle
ParkNYC
Hades Star - game
Weather.gov - everyday weather
Strictly Dumpling Mike Chen Food Reviews on Youtube
overcast
TheRawStory.com
ThinkorSwim, Kerbal Space Program
Nextdoor
Design Home game, Monument Valley, Redbubble
childmind.org
Ars Technica
Duolingo, NPROne, Feedly.com
Remodelista
Verify (OCR receipts - expense tracking); Day One (journal)
Strava, belfastcommunityradio.org, All Trails app
Wirecutter
The RealReal, Pickett of London
Citymapper
cupofjo.com
.alltop.com/photography
goodguide.com
blinkist, farnamstreetblog, bothsidesofthetable
Podcasts (well known podcasts retained, focusing on reinforcing quality)
Chapo Trap House, Intercepted, Archaeological Fantasies
Fresh Air, RadioLab, Terrible -Thanks for Asking
The Daily, On Being, Radiolab
Planet Money, Pod Save America, Radiolab
Real Vision, The Moth
99% Invisible
S-Town
Kalaidocast
The Daily, Pod Save America, Lovitt or Leave It
Imaginary Worlds, Jay + Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Blank Check with Griffin and David
Slow Burn; Pod Save America; RadioLab More Perfect
Slate’s The Gist; MSNBC Rachel Maddow; Week in the Knees
Wow in the World, Deadpod, Dope Queens
The Daily, S*Town, How I Built This
Splendid Table, Pod Save America
Busy Phillips podcast
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me; It’s Been a Minute; This American Life
NPR 1 (for Terry Gross), Global Politico, Preet Bharara’s new podcast
HBR Idea Cast, a16z, Tim Ferris Show
Adventures in Finance, Bloomberg Surveillance, The Moth Radio Hour
In Our Time, This American Life, Fresh Air
S-town, Revisionist History, Rachel Maddow
Section 2: Soul - Feeling Better
What Makes You Happy (answers filtered based on broad applicability and usefulness)
Silence
drawing
Puzzle Mania 😀
Beer and wine
The possibility of reducing work to three days a week
family time / family vacation
Salty food and walking the local golf course with my dog off leash
Tennis
My SodaStream
My dogs
Exercise
Los Angeles
Sleep
Freedom
Skiing
Jogging
Civic Engagement
Reconnecting
Reading
Learning about self-compassion
Robert Mueller
yoga and Bulgarian yogurt
Stress Relief (answers filtered based on broad applicability and usefulness)
Drawing cartoons on my iPad.
Crossfit & Krav
Table Tennis
Quiet Places
luna & larry’s coconut bliss dark chocolate ice cream
Running
Hot shower on the weekends
Building Stuff
Citibike
Tennis
Swimming/hot tub
Mindless computer games like solitaire
Long Walks
Making Art
yoga and Tango Dancing
Reading and Writing Poetry
Transcendental Meditation
Kickboxing
Skiing
Needlepoint
Stop Taking Things So Seriously.
Being organized to that I actually get the piles of papers/bills/etc off my “To Do List”
SLT (strengthen lengthen tone) UWS
Mindfulness practices & class (meditation, writing prompts)
Biking
Cooking
vodka or tequila mixed with club soda with a squeeze of lime
Meaningful Not-For-Profit Organization (no filtering, if you named it, it’s in here…)
Sleeping Giants
Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition
misophonia research causes
Yvote
Israeli Venture Network
Humane Society of NY
International Refugee Assistance Project
Courageous Parents Network, helping families parent children with serious illness
The Bronx Freedom Fund
Goddard Riverside
IBD Support Foundation
Village Health Works
I just discovered the store BoxLunch, Badass Brooklyn Dog rescue is cool, also Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary is an amazing Group.
Hadassah hospital.
Jewish Funders Network
Child Mind Institute
CASA - court appointed special advocates for foster care children
EFF
The Trevor Project
Run For Something
Apex for Youth
Hazon
Indivisible, Hadassah
Child Mind Institute, Planned Parenthood
Mercy Corps
Harlem Children’s Zone
Indivisible
Second Harvest
City Step
Center for Justice and Democracy
Karuna Foundation
Speak Up Africa - helping mothers and newborns stay healthy
God’s Love We Deliver
Amani Global Works
Biblioburro
Gabby Giffords antigun PAC (giffords PAC) is fighting the right fight
AGW & WEACT (We Act for Environmental Justice)
ADL
Coney Island Prep
Polaris Project
American Cancer Society
Charity Water
Climate Reality Project
Inspiring Politician (no filtering, if you wrote it, it’s in here…)
No One/LOL (8)
Elizabeth Warren (5)
Donald Trump (“he inspired me to be active”) (3)
Tarana Burke (2) (#MeToo)
Kirsten Gillibrand (2)
Danica Roem (2)
Bernie Sanders (2)
Sally Yates (2)
John McCain
Jimmy Kimmel
Angela Merkel - her face says what I feel about American politics.
Adam Schiff
Samantha Bee
John McCain
Scott Stringer
Jeff Flake
Chris Murphy
Joe Kahn
Cory Booker
Michelle Obama
Jon Ossoff
Hillary Clinton
Bob Ferguson - Washington State Attorney General
Best Restaurant Experience This Year (no filtering, if you wrote it, it’s in here…)
PABU Izakaya in SF
Blanca
Berns Steakhouse in Tampa, FL
Breakfast Burrito from Frank’s on Fairfax
Sushi Nakazawa
Los Angeles Tatsu Ramen, Pork Bao on Melrose.
Asiate
Boulud Sud
Tomahawk steak at Gelso & Grand has changed me as a person
Park Avenue Summer
Pokeworks at lunch
Azurmendi ½ hour outside Bilbao Spain
The Modern (2)
Atlantic Grill
Candle Cafe
Barbuzzo (Philadelphia)
ABC Kitchen
Here’s Looking at You (LA)
Excellent Dumpling House in Chelsea
Burma Superstar
Blue Ribbon Brasserie, SoHo
Eataly
Quality Italian
Sate Kampar, Philadelphia
Shalom Y'all
Nix
Azurmende (in Bilbao)
Breakfast at Hyatt Kathmandu
Vietnam on First Avenue NYC
Maison Pickle
Jeni’s Ice Cream (ATL)
Sushi Takeshima in Kanazawa, Japan
Mastros
Picco Larkspur, CA
The Old Rose in the Jane Hotel
Souley Vegan - Oakland
Four Seasons Jackson Hole
Chris Aerni’s is the chef/owner of the Rosemont Inn in New Brunswick, Canada
Bite Into Maine - Lobster Roll
Sushi Inoue
Best Purchase Under $500 (answers filtered based on broad applicability and usefulness)
Allbirds runners
Samsung 4K HDR Monitor
Adidas Ultra Boost running shoes
Netgear orbi
Airpods (4)
5 nights of babysitting
SodaStream
InstantPot!
Deluxe Ninja blender
Salomon hiking boots
Brookes walking shoes
Western Mountaineering Sleeping Bag
Amope Electronic Foot File
Contigo hot cup for on-the-go. Really does keep my tea warm for 4hrs!
Madewell Jeans
Wrinkle-free shirts from LL Bean
Amazon Echo
Bombas socks (honeycomb support structure rocks)
We designed a glass vase and had it blown for us by Lexington Glassworks in Asheville, NC
Smart Light Bulbs
F2C Indoor Exercise Bike Stand trainer W/ 8 Levels of Resistance
Dream “Off The Beaten Path” Vacation (filtered to focus on discovery)
Northern India
Hill Tribes of India
The Color wars in India
Jacmel, Haiti
Rocky Mountain National Park
Lake Louise
Azores (3)
Portugal (4)
Mississippi
Namibia, Africa
Morocco
Aran Islands, Ireland
Northern Scandinavia
Lamu, Kenya
Palau
Iceland - Fire and Ice experiences
Cuba
Health Products or Insights (not filtered - you were all very interesting on this one)
Sleep more
ClassPass - yoga once a week
Pull-up bar that pops in above door
Stretches learned during physical therapy, amazing. Better posture while standing. Using a standing desk that can move up and down.
Switched from Eucerin face cream to Rose Hip and Hibiscus Moisturizer, skin feels much better.
One big meal a day
Citibike
under desk bike, apple watch
Yoga
I have begun Pilates this year and it really seems to work with my body. I am hoping I can join a studio to work with the machines next year. Also the foam roller will change your life ! I roll my back daily and it helps soooo much!
Not eating 5 or more hours before going to bed
Started tai-chi
Drink water
Cycling
doing at least a little bit of yoga or stretching every single day
intermittent fasting
alkali water
Flotation
TM
Mindfulness in every-day moments
You can do a lot in one day rather than spread it out over 5-6 days
More mindful breathing.
Hiking with walking sticks really helps the knees.
Still searching for something that I will stick with
SLT and retinol nightly
Yoga. And stretching.
I had some imaging done on my heart. Does that count?
Feldenkrais
hot yoga (I know, it’s so 10 years ago)
Stretching!
Marula facial oil and MCT oil in coffee aka bulletproof coffee
Float tanks
Eating low carb
Insight: Dry Fasting as implemented by Dr. Sergei Filonov in Siberia – cured my friend’s debilitating Lyme disease with six weeks of treatment.
Magnesium Taurate (back pain)
Milk thistle
How often do you meditate?
3+ times per week: 6.1%
1 or 2 times per week: 18.4%
1 or 2 times per month: 12.2%
rarely: 22.4%
never: 40.8%
Prediction: Bitcoin price at the end of 2018
>$25,000 22.0%
Between $25,000 and $2,500 63.4%
<$2,500 14.6%
Prediction: Senate after 2018 Elections
Republicans gain seats (>51 seats): 6.4%
51 Rep / 49 Dem (stays the same): 4.3%
50 / 50: 23.4%
Democrats gain control: 66.0%
Prediction: Who will win the World Cup
“I don’t care”: 53.1%
Germany: 14.3%
Brazil: 10.2%
Spain: 6.1%
Argentina: 6.1%
All other choices too low to bother with…
Favorite Life Hack (light filtering for usefulness)
Always be kind to your wife
Make a daily list of three things each day for which you are grateful.
Rely on the experts. They’re generally right
Better to “get over it” quickly
Using binder clips to hold loose wires to back of desk
Gowanus is as cool of a neighborhood as it is ugly.
Seek out comedy and laugh as much as possible. Recent interests Tiffany Haddish and Judd Apatow has a few good laughs on his special.
You don’t control your circumstances, you can control how you deal with them
Ink + Volt Planner
shave only once a week
Practice patience…
This is probably common knowledge to everyone, but it turns out there’s an arrow near the gas display that tells you which side of the car has the gas tank.
I learned about living an aloha life and while it is not super easy in NYC it is always a conscious decision that has not failed to make me feel better
“Books make my bed dirty, and alas, I ain’t got no transcendental eyeglasses”
Technology is not my friend
I should’ve spent more time with the Gottliebs in 2017. Will not make that mistake again.
Less social media. Facebook / twitter / insta can be bad for you.
overnight steel cut oats
Voters need to show up
Gmail allows variations to your address that include inserting a “.” anywhere or adding +“whatever you want” before the “@”. Generally logins require both you’re email address and your password. Half of that equation (your email address) is publicly available. For painless added security, when creating logins to sites, consider adding “+whatever you want” to the email address. A hacker would require both your password and this variation on your email address, which no one but you would have knowledge of. Incoming messages can also be filtered into folders by variations of this kind if you like (so “+secure”; “+junk”; “+temp”; “+important”).
Stop watching the news.
TM
It’s not as bad as it appears
To help kids be independent, we need to trust them.
Most damage can be repaired.
Be kind as often as you can because it will come back to you in spades
Book called subtle art of not giving a bleep….very good life advice
Take chances and try to be happy. Life is too short not to do so.
We need to regain a more equal distribution of income and the belief that we should take care of each other.
bidet
Getting old sucks
Growing old is good and becoming invisible has distinct advantages.
It’s not a new one, but work/life balance is CRUCIAL
Life is short.
When I say “yes” to something, what I am saying “no” to?
Electric power consumption will increase steadily over time notwithstanding efficiency gains in products that consume electricity
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My Halloween Playlist
Another blog did a post with their Halloween music playlist. I commented and they replied, asking me to share mine. It took a bit to get the list from iTunes, but here is what I am at, currently. (I am always looking for more!)
1 Witch Doctor - Alvin and the Chipmunks
2 Drac's Back - Andy Forray
3 The Rockin' Ghost -Archie Bleyer
4 Zombies - The Astro
5 Devil In My Car - The B-52's
6 The Monster Hop - Bert Convy
7 The Night Before Halloween - Bill Buchanan
8 Wombie Zombie - Billy Taylor
9 Release The Bats - The Birthday Party
10 Born on a Day the Sun Didn't Rise - Black Moth Super Rainbow
11 Oliver Haddo - Blood Ceremony
12 Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
13 The Monster Swim - Bobby (Boris) Pickett And The Crypt Kickers
14 Vampira - Halloween Howls Bobby Bare
15 They're Here - Boots Walker
16 Monster Mash - Monster Hits Vol. 1 Boris Pickett & The Crypt Keepers
17 Screaming - The Brains
18 The Ghost Of Smokey Joe - Cab Calloway
19 Violet Hellfire - Calabrese
20 cthlu thlu - Caravan
21 The Skeleton Dance - Cark Stalling
22 Don't Meet Mr. Frankenstein - Carlos Casal, Jr.
23 Dracula - Christine Pilzer
24 Devil Woman - Cliff Richard
25 The Twilight Zone - Monster Hits Vol. 1 Constant, Marius
26 Blood Will Have Blood - Corpusse
27 Treat You Like A Lady - Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty)
28 I Was A Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps
29 Rockin' Bones - The Cramps
30 Crushed - The Crypt Club
31 Frankenstein Twist - The Crystals
32 Grimly Fiendish - The Damned
33 Frankenstein Conquers The World - Daniel Johnston And Jad Fair
34 Shhh... - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
35 Mad Witch - Dave Gardner
36 Trick Or Treat - David, Hoffman And Livington
37 It's Monster Surfing Time - The Deadly Ones
38 The Voodoo Man - The Del-Vikings
39 Horror Movies - Dickie Goodman
40 Zombie Stomp - Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
41 Mad Monster Party - Ethel Ennis
42 Halloween Remix - Exorcist Theme - The Exorcist Motion Picture Soundtrack
43 Tubular Bells - The Exorcist Theme
44 Graveyard Music - F. Xavier Atencio And Buddy Baker
45 Grim Grinning Ghosts - F. Xavier Atencio And Buddy Baker
46 I'm A Mummy - The Fall
47 Me And The Ghost Upstairs - Fred Astaire
48 The Cave (Part One) - Gary "Spider" Webb
49 Werewolf - Gary Warren
50 The Surf Monster - Gene Moss
51 Carry Me Back To Transylvania - Gene Moss
52 Ghastly Stomp - The Ghastly Ones
53 Goblin Dance - Ghostly Sounds (Gershon Kingsley & Pete…
54 The Graveyard Shift - The Ghouls
55 Night Gallery - Gil Melle And Edward Sauter
56 Spook City U.S.A. - Glenn Danzig
57 The Twilight Zone '85 Main Title - The Grateful Dead And Merl Saunders
58 Zombies, March! - GWAR
59 Omar The Vampire - The Hamburger Brothers
60 The Vampire Lovers - Harry Robinson
61 Blood Of Dracula - I was A Teenage Frankenstein
62 Midnight Monsters Hop - Jack And Jim
63 The Monsters Go Disco - Monster Cereals Jeff Elmassian
64 Unpleasantville - Jeremy Tyler
65 Vampire Daddy - Jerry Bryan
66 Ave Satani - Jerry Goldsmith
67 The Altar - Jerry Goldsmith
68 Carol Ann's Theme (End Title) - Jerry Goldsmith
69 Toccata And Fugue In D-Minor - Monster Hits Vol. 1 Johann Sebastian Bach
70 Halloween Theme - Main Title - John Carpenter
71 The Fog (main Theme) - John Carpenter
72 Opening Titles - John Carpenter
73 Wake Up - John Carpenter
74 Happy Halloween - John Zacherle
75 Halloween - Kay Lande & Wade Denning
76 The Headless Horseman - Kay Starr
77 Wicked Annabella - The Kinks
78 She's My Witch - Kip Tyler
79 You Can't Give Me Anything - Kreeps
80 Halloween Spooks - Lambert, Hendricks And Ross
81 The Mummy's Bracelet - Lee Ross
82 Graveyard - Leroy Bowman
83 Story Time
84 Shaking Things Up
85 Welcome To Unpleasantville
86 Man Meets Monster
87 Pumpkin Brain Pie
88 All Out Of Homes
89 The O'lantern's
90 Smashing Pumpkins
91 Spider Baby Theme - Spider Baby Soundtrack Lon Chaney Jr
92 The Boogeyman is Coming - Halloween Lonnie Elam
93 Wolf Call - lord dent and his invaders
94 Jinetes En El Cielo - Los Babys
95 Amytiville - Lovebug Starski
96 Out Of Limits - The Marketts
97 Zombie - Mecht Mensch
98 13 O'Clock Rock - The Memphis Morticians
99 Return Of The Fly - Misfits
100 Ghoul's Night Out - The Misfits
101 The Spider And The Fly - The Monocles
102 Night Of The Vampire - The Moontrekkers
103 The Haunted Strangler - Movie Advert
104 Horror Of Dracula - Movie Advert
105 I Was A Teenage Werewolf - Movie Advert
106 The Mummy - Movie Advert
107 At The Munsters - The Munsters
108 The Haunted House - New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
109 Can't Stop the Monster Kids - The Other
110 Clinkerated Chimes - Pat Bone
111 Phantasm Theme - Phantasm Motion Picture Soundtrack
112 The House on Shady Lane - The House on Shady Lane Plain White T’s
113 A Questionable Obsession with the Recen… RAMMER
114 The Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Redbone
115 The House On Sorority Row - Main Title - Richard Band
116 Prologue / Main Title - Richard Band
117 Re-Animator Theme Reprise - Richard Band
118 Dark Shadows - The Robert Cobert Orchestra
119 The Night Of The Vampire - Roky Erickson
120 I Walked With A Zombie - Roky Erickson And The Aliens
121 Halloween Remix - Miscellaneous Ronald Jenkees
122 Goo Goo Muck - Ronnie Cook And The Gaylads
123 Kill Murder Killers
124 Zombies of the Dead
125 Day of the Rocks
126 Murder on the Gondola
127 Ghoulash - Satan's Pilgrims
128 She's Fallen In Love With A Monster Man - Screaming Lord Sutch
129 Jack the Ripper - Screaming Lord Sutch
130 Jack The Ripper - Screaming Lord Sutch
131 It's Halloween - The Shaggs
132 It Counquered The World - The She Creature
133 The Purple People Eater - Monster Hits Vol. 1 Sheb Wooley
134 Birthday - So Sick Social Club feat. Madchild
135 Suck Me - Spooklight feat. Ryan Lindsey
136 The Spook Walks - Spooks
137 Tongue Sandwich (Water Creature Remix) - Squid Lid
138 Jump Rope - Steve Jablonsky
139 Main Title - Steve Jablonsky
140 Ghost Rider - Suicide
141 Graveyard Rock - Tarantula Ghoul And Her Gravediggers
142 Get Up and Kill - The Creeping Cruds
143 Monster - The Mission Creeps
144 Phantom Chop - The von Drats
145 Wrong Turn - The Young Werewolves
146 Danny's Inferno - The Three Suns
147 The Ghost And Mr. Chicken - The Tiki Tones
148 Bad Ritual - Timber Timbre
149 I'm A Ghost - Unknown Artist
150 Snickers Halloween Grocery Store - Halloween Various Artists
151 Nightmare on My Street - Various Artists
152 At the House of Frankenstein - Various Artists
153 Creature Feature - Various Artists
154 The Day The Earth Stood Still - Various Artists
155 Halloween Spooks - Various Artists
156 The Headless Horseman - Various Artists
157 Monster Holiday - Various Artists
158 Trick Or Treat - Various Artists
159 The Fourth Dimension - The Ventures
160 Haunted House of Rock (extended version) - whodini
161 Opening Titles Friday the 13th: The Series - Fred Mollin
162 Love Potion No. 9 - The Clovers
163 Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
164 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Theme
165 - Hellraiser - Christopher Young
166 - Tales from the Crypt - Danny Elfman
167 - Beetlejuice - Danny Elfman
168 - Edward Scissorhands - Danny Elfman
169 - The Outer Limits - Dominic Frontiere
170 - Tales From the Darkside - Donald Rubenstein
171 - Forever Knight - Fred Mollin
172 - Friday the 13th: The Series - Fred Mollin
173 - Beyond Reality - Fred Mollin
174 - The Odyssey - Fred Mollin
175 - Opening Titles - Friday the 13th: The Series - Fred Mollin
176 - 'The Inheritance': Thunderstorm In The City/'Tails I Live, Heads You Die': The Graveyard...
177 - Suite From 'The Barons Bride': I. Micki's Trance/II. The Vampire's Lair/III. Ryan Says Goodbye...
178 - Suite From 'Badge Of Honor': I. The Deal/II. Micki And Tim/III. Sharko Alone/The Badge Revealed...
179 - 'Tails I Live, Heads You Die': The Death Of Micki
180 - 'Symphony In B Sharp': I. Ryan Chases The Phantom/II. The Death Of Leslie/III. The Fight To...
181 - Suite From 'Brain Drain': I. Jack And Vi/II. Real Love/III. Jack Mourns Vi
182 - 'Eye Of Death': I. The Letter/The Troops Retreat/II. More Retreat
183 - Suite From 'What A Mother Wouldn't Do': I. The Cradle Revealed/Mom And Louis/II. Mom And The Baby...
184 - 'The Electrocutioner': I. In The Basement
185 - Suite From 'The Playhouse': I. The Children's Theme/II. The Playhouse Transports The Children...
186 - Suite From 'Wedding In Black' And 'Bottle Of Dreams': I. The Castle/II. Calvin And Micki/...
187 - 'Bottle Of Dreams': I. The End Of A Year
188 - Friday The 13th-The Series: Closing Credits
189 -Friday the 13th - Main Theme
190 - Friday the 13th - Theme
191 - Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Gil Melle
192 - Night Gallery - Gilbert Melle
193 - Suspiria - Goblin
194 - Theme from Friday the 13th - The Horror Theme
195 - Friday the 13th (the Legacy) - The Horror Theme
196 - The Fly - Howard Shore
197 - Videodrome - Howard Shore
198 - The Outer Limits (1995) - J. Van Tongeren
199 - The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith
200 - Poltergeist - Jerry Goldsmith
201 - Halloween - John Carpenter
202 - Theme Music (Original) - John Carpenter
203 - Theme (From Halloween) - John Carpenter
204 - Theme to Jaws - John Williams
205 - Dead, Dead, Dead - Juan Schwartz and
206 - The Twilight Zone - Marius Constant
207 - Nowhere Man - Mark Snow
208 - The X-Files - Mark Snow
209 - Scooby Doo, Where Are You? - Matthew Sweet
210 - Dark Shadows Theme - R. Corbet
211 - Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
212 - Dracula: The Series - Robert Cobert
213 - The Addams Family - various
214 - Bewitched - various
215 - The Twilight Zone - various
216 - Main Theme from The Addams Family - Vic Mizzy
217 - Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
218 - In Search Of... - various
219 - Tales from the Darkside Intro
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Modern!Newt Scamander x Reader
A/N: had to. just had to. also, this is really old ;v;
You work at Starbucks but hate coffee.
Like absolutely despise it as much as it could be - it's bitterness just extremely wards you off. So does whatever other flavor is surfing around in it.
With that being said, it was a horrible combination, yes, you would think, but you needed a decent paying job and this was the best you could get currently with being in college. So you made do if it meant survival - i.e, being able to buy supplies and food, and primarily whatever else one needed for a living. It helped that the campus wasn't too far either. That and there was wifi and employee discounts to take advantage of so it wasn’t half bad, nor was the smell of java beans and confection sweetness. You also volunteer at animal shelters when you’re free from the pressures of getting an education to blow off some steam and working part time to do something you enjoy more than making six am zombies a cup of joe while having to deal with overly crotchety or peppy people was just what you needed. Including some of your co-workers you put below minimum effort in socializing with. It was an okay level of existing for what it was worth, and you just tried to remind yourself that the pot at the end of the rainbow that is a college degree would be so very much worth all the hard work.
It was the average afternoon for a mid fall day and a ginger walked in some time past one thirty. He had a young face, probably European, that had more than a healthy amount of freckles. He walked up to the cash register, seeming all but meekly polite as he ordered a small latte and told you his name so you could sharpie it on his cup.
“Alright, I’ll call you in a bit pal.” you smiled.
He nodded and you got to work. Crafting him his oddly simple drink given all the options to pick from as you thought of his name.
Newton. Certainly not one you hear everyday - in your case anyway - but very unique. It gave you can idea and as you were an in the moment confidence person, you went through with that idea.
You called him up and he listened like a retriever, red head popping up in attention. You reached over the shelf frame on the side of the register, glad you had long enough arms to compensate for your short body. He grabbed the cup from you carefully and it didn't take long for him to snort then chuckle, but it was more school boyish than you expected and that was insanely adorable. He was amused by the nickname you had wrote - Newt. You even doodled a little one next to your curly handwriting. His smile jerked up higher on one side it turned out.
You smiled again, this time more earnestly and shrugged as he looked your way. Then you noticed something more odd than his name and of course you had to call him out on it.
“Cool critter man." it was a witty compliment meant for the stick bug crawling on his shoulder. It was a bright green and getting close enough to graze his collar as it crawled upward.
He startled, and without delay, frantically snatched it up. He then angrily whispered a reprimand to it, letting it crawl into his breast pocket. You watched him all the while, bemused before he seemed to remember that you were there. He started up in a stammer and you cut him off.
"Does it have a name?”
You swore you could see the headlights of his brain blinker as he tilted his head at you. He swallowed roughly and looked at his latte as he thumbed open a piece of plastic on the lid over the lip of the cup.
“P-Pickett,” he answered quietly.
You cocked your head to the side too.
“Nice.”
A smile shyly tilts his lips and he thanks you.
It’s only a matter of time before you decide to tell him your name, but that's about when he’s forced to go sit at one of the tables as a grouchy customer moves in behind him on the otherwise non existent line and loudly complains about him holding it up. It was moment where you really wished you could tell some people to suck it and frack off. She was just lucky more people came in after her complaint. So, you get back to work and help her with a strained attitude, a little less enthusiastic than before and painting mental mustaches on her and the rest of who followed that were not of the savory kind of personality.
When you’ve hit another lapse of inactivity in coffee serving, you spy Newt in the back, alone and ears plugged with buds. Probably listening to some chill tunes. He was writing furiously in a worn journal and taking periodic sips of his latte. Sighing, you check the time on your Android. It’s nearly three now. Good as time as ever for a break, and what better than to see how the politest guy you’ve served in a long time is doing. You made yourself something quick and poured a mug before popping out from behind the desk and telling Jordie - the quiet, sweet guy of the staff that never threw anyone under the bus and kept to himself - that'd you be back in thirty. You took a drink from your mug as you ambled over to Newt.
“Hey." You absently wonder if no one has every really went out of their to talk to him before because of how he reacts to you. He seems quirky - in the good way. So it’d be a shock that no has tried to befriend him.
You’ve managed to give him another start and he’s turned to a stuttering mess as you sit down across from him, a piping hot chocolate in hand. Unknown to you, it surprised him that you had arrived at his table.
"W-why are you- won't you get in trouble for not being on the job?" he asked in that raspy accent, taking out his ear buds.
"Hey, it’s no problem Newt, I’m on break and well…sitting at an empty table or back of the break room by myself can be lonely." you explained, leaning back in your seat.
"A-are you sure?”
“Absolutely.” you soothe and the tension strung in his shoulders dropped visibly.
He’s nervous as you then try to start up chatter, asking if he had any hobbies.
"Well, I volunteer at the nearby animal shelter. And several others." he confessed sheepishly.
"Really? Huh, so do I."
Something sparked in his lovely eyes and soon you two couldn't shut up. You relate on a few things, like options and philosophies, and he mentions that he also rescues pit bulls - he insists on telling you tokens of several, which you don't at all mind -, and smiles brightly when you pipe up that you have one too. You feel comforted by his presence and he seems to like you to some extent if he hasn't stopped yammering with you yet.
He got even more animated when you started to rambled about endangered species the moment he brings them up. And misunderstood or stereotyped ones.
"They deserve a lot more concern, you know? Like, these are animals - the creatures who have had the earth a lot longer than we have, so aren't they entitled to something more than just advertisements on TV that don't help as much as they say they do?"
He drank the last of his latte in a short gulp, he placed the empty cup down, "I wholehearted agree, I suppose we can only hope for more efforts to be exulted but I hope to help that some day."
Yes, he had told you he was aiming to become a zoologist in his near future, a career you once considered taking on in flitting thought, but your indecisiveness had left you wondering more on you choices of occupations.
Turns out you both like art too and share taste in music.
Sadly, that topic is cut short and because your break time’s up in a flash and you have to get back to work and Newt has an essay to finish.
You down the rest of your hot chocolate, "Um, sorry. Gotta go back to the grind an' stuff." you tuck back some hair.
He says he looks forward to seeing you again and gives a less bashful smile as he rises to leave too.
You hobble on back behind the register, catching sight of him through a window and holding onto his image as he disappears in the street. You sigh, feeling warm inside, and you know it's not because of the hot chocolate.
You wonder if he notices the heart shaped cookie you slipped into his bag before he left.
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CKUA - The Midway: 2017
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The Midway was a special program which typically aired from 9:00am-12:00pm (or sometimes 10:00am-2:00) on CKUA from 2016-2019 during statutory holidays.
Click “keep reading” below for my surviving 2017 Midway playlists.
Explore my playlist history for other dates and programs.
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AIRTIME // PERFORMING ARTIST // ALBUM
2017-10-09
^^ listener recommendation
10:00; Monday Morning; Pulp; Different Class
10:04; Hippy Hippy Shake; Chan Romero; Original Hits
10:06; Digital Witnesses; St. Vincent; St. Vincent
10:10; Love is the Drug; Roxy Music; The Collection
10:14; Sledgehammer; Peter Gabriel; Hit
10:20; Chicken; Bert Convy; Shut Down - Hot Rod Hits
10:22; Road Runner; The Gants; Shut Down - Hot Rod Hits
10:25; Little Deuce Coupe; The Beach Boys; Greatest Hits
10:29; Clocks; Coldplay; A Rush of Blood To the Head
10:36; Memories; The Burning Hell w/ Katie Baggs; The Bard of Montreal
10:40; Leaving the Table; Leonard Cohen; You Want It Darker
10:45; Message in a Bottle; The Police; Complete Recordings ^^
10:51; How To Forget; Jason Isbell; EFMF Sampler
10:55; Kodachrome; Paul Simon; Essential
11:01; So Sad About Us; The Who; Maximum R&B
11:05; Somewhere My Love; Frank Sinatra; My Way
11:07; Laisser Tomber Les Filles; France Gall; Greatest Hits
11:10; Running on Empty; Jackson Browne; Next Voice You Hear
11:16; Space Truckin’; Deep Purple; Machine Head
11:22; Piggies; Theodore Bikel; Piggies 45
11:25; Animals; The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger; Midnight Sun
11:32; Crippled Inside; John Lennon; Imagine
11:37; Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance; Frank Zappa; The Lost Episodes
11:40; I’m So Happy I Could Cry; The Soul Giants (Zappa); Joe’s Corsage
11:45; Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance; The Mothers of Invention; We’re Only In It For the Money
11:47; Tide is High; Blondie; Best of
11:51; What a Girl’s Gotta Do; Lindi Ortega; ‘Til the Goin’ Gets Gone
11:55; Give Me a Sign; Edward Sharpe & the Mag Zeroes; Give Me a Sign 45
12:02; Chain Gang; Sam Cooke; The Man Who Invented Soul
12:04; Flowers; Leon Bridges; Coming Home
12:08; Let the Good Times Roll; JD McPherson; Let the Good Times Roll
12:11; Gemini; Alabama Shakes; Sound & Colour
12:17; Libra; Harvey Sid Fisher; Harvey Sid FIsher’s Astrology
12:19; Fake Empire; The National; Boxer
12:22; Archie, Marry Me; Alvvays; Alvvays
12:26; Puppet on a String; Sandie Shaw; Sixties Hits
12:31; Less Than Zero; Elvis Costello; My Aim is True
12:35; Baby Workout; Jackie Wilson; Best of
12:38; Heart of Gold; Charles Bradley & Menahan St. Orch; No Time For Dreaming ++
12:41; Going Down Slow; Dee Dee Bridgewater; Memphis… Yes, I’m Ready ++
12:46; Shake; Gary Clark Jr.; Story of Sonny Boy Slim
12:50; Be Alright; Bend Sinister; The Other Way ++
12:56; Monster Mash; Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett; Monster Hits
13:01; Let Them Knock; Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings; Miss Sharon Jones
13:07; Through Blue Light; The Wilderness of Manitoba; Live at CKUA ^^
13:12; Oh, the Wind Will Blow; Doug Hoyer; Walks With the Tender & Growing Night
13:17; He’ll Have To Go; Jim Reeves; Anthology ^^
13:19; Wicked Game; The Give ‘Em Hell Boys; Barn Burner
13:23; I’ll Never Fall in Love Again; Tom Jones; Anthology
13:29; Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut; Almond Joy; Vintage Commercials
13:31; In Spite of Ourselves; John Prine & Iris Dement; In Spite of Ourselves ^^
13:37; Thank You; Led Zeppelin; Led Zeppelin II ^^
13:41; Make It Better (Forget About Me); Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Southern Accents ^^
13:47; You Got It; Roy Orbison; Mystery Girl ^^
13:50; Perdono; Caterina Caselli; Italian Rock & Roll Classics ^^
13:55; Dishes; Pulp; This is Hardcore ^^
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2017-10-28
^^ listener recommendation
21:06; Saturday Night; The Bay City Rollers; Greatest Hits
21:10; Ain’t That a Shame; Cheap Trick; Live at the Budokan
21:17; Radio, Radio; Elvis Costello; This Year’s Model
21:20; Once in a Lifetime; Talking Heads; Popular Favourites
21:28; Plimsoll Punks; Alvvays; Antisocialites
21:32; Hanging on the Telephone; Blondie; Greatest Hits
21:39; Rescue Me; Fontella Bass; Beg Scream & Shout
21:41; Breaking Down; Florence & the Machine; Ceremonials
21:50; Beehive; Chicago Afrobeat Project; What Goes Up
21:54; Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood; The Animals; Greatest Hits
21:59; Duncan; Sarah Slean; Night Bugs
22:04; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; Elton John; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
22:10; Game of Love; Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders; Best of
22:13; Apache; The Shadows; The Shadows
22:17; How Does the Grass Grow; David Bowie; The Next Day
22:21; I Feel Free; Cream; Complete Clapton
22:28; Yakety Yak (re-recording); The Coasters; 20 Best of the ‘50s
22:30; Superstition; Beck Bogart & Appice; Beckology
22:39; Dazed and Confused; Led Zeppelin; Mothership ^^
22:46; Cosmik Debris; Frank Zappa; Apostrophe ^^
22:53; In the Midnight Hour; Wilson Pickett; Atlantic Gold
23:00; Midnight Caller; Badfinger; Best of
23:04; Neptune City; Nicole Atkins; Neptune City
23:08; What the World Needs Now; Jackie de Shannon; Best of Bacharach
23:12; Wicked Game; The Give ‘Em Hell Boys; Barn Burner
23:19; Who’ll Be the Next in Line; The Kinks; Kinda Kinks ^^
23:21; Mercury Blues; David Lindley; El Rayo-X ^^
23:25; All the Young Dudes; Mott the Hoople; Mott the Hoople ^^
23:30; Call Me; Blondie; American Gigolo ^^
23:36; Someday Someway; Marshall Crenshaw; New Wave Hits
23:37; Sorry; The Easybeats; Best of
23:41; Hey St. Peter; Flash and the Pan; New Wave Hits
23:45; The Moment; Tame Impala; Currents
23:50; The One For Me; Doug Hoyer; To Be a River
23:55; Memories; Leonard Cohen; Death of a Ladies’ Man
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masterlist ; miscellaneous char.
— SHOWS & MOVIES
↬ triple frontier
benny miller : 1* – 2* – 3* – 4 – 5 – 6
— CHARACTERS
↬ warren kole & char.
˚ · . JEFF SADECKI
make it double (Phillip Graves & Jeff Sadecki mini series!) : 1* – 2* – 3 – 4
— Don't let the brothers' personality differences fool anybody. Their adoration for you is as identical as their appearance.
random HCs: 1 – 2 – 3
↬ sebastian stan & char.
˚ · . BUCKY BARNES
single father!bucky x milf!reader ; 1*
— Come & witness the chronicles of the Barnes' as the single mother next door unknowingly change their lives.
↬ michael dorman & char.
˚ · . JOE PICKETT
sweet treat
— Joe and his girls help the neighbourhood baker plan the seasonal menu.
↬ adam driver & char.
red lipstick (adam driver char. au)
↬ stephen lang & char.
i can be the one that takes you there (commander taylor x reader)
— It's just you and the commander tonight.
↬ other char.
twice shy (oj haywood x f!reader)
— When two shy idiots fall in love.
— ANIME
˚ · . JUJUTSU KAISEN
voyeur!geto* (ft. your hubbies gojo & toji)
˚ · . back to full m.list , pics found on Pinterest!
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Thank you for the tag, @tavners & @loverhymeswith !! And it's good to hear from you again, Katy!! ❣
• favorite color: Red
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sweet treat ; joe pickett x reader
summary: Joe and his girls help the neighbourhood baker plan the seasonal menu.
warnings: teeny bit of angst, but mostly fluff!
a/n: as if country boy Rick was not enough, our beloved Dorman has now lived in my head rent free ❤ thank you @lacontroller1991 for giving me the most wholesome ideas for this man! don’t forget to leave some sugar! ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ
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'What are we, little lady?' ;
He never thought he'd drag his own ass out of bed by his girls on his day off to help the cute lil' baker with the seasonal menu. Though it didn't take long to convince him for obvious reasons, he was worried you'd rather work alone, more so with what he assumed would be a busy month. But, with his eldest telling him that it was you who offered them to tag along, he gave in and hoped that she was right.
Their excitement grew as they were getting closer and closer to their destination, including Joe, who hid his hands in his pockets, hoping it wouldn't sweat any more than it already did.
Upon entering the bakery, Joe immediately noted the slight changes to the place; dried flower wreaths, decorative tree branches, mood-matching fairy lights, that little witch hat sticker on the glass display.
Okay, maybe he has spent a lot of time here to be able to notice such details so quickly.
"Is that who I think it is?" They perked up at the sing-song voice coming from the kitchen, beaming as you peeked your head out of the door, "Morning, girls!"
"(Y/N)!" The girls cheered, running up to you, where you lifted the flip-up countertop to greet them. He watched you quickly dust off the flour off your apron before kneeling down for a group hug. He was barely able to control the giddy smile, instead, he opted for a gentle one.
"I see you two brought company," You raised your brows at the man in question, "I take it that the girls used their secret weapon on you to bring you here?" You knew he wasn't spared from the puppy dog eyes that even you couldn't resist, though, deep down, you were thanking the heavens that they had such an ability.
"He's helping us today!" You looked at Sheridan in surprise, albeit more so pleasant than anything, missing the way Joe tensed up.
"Really?" When your focus was back on their father, he was already looking at his shoes, shifting in place.
"Mhm, He wanted to!" Lucy's response had your lips parted just a little. Your heart had already skipped a beat when you saw him at the door, now, it was close to stopping now that you'd heard that his arrival wasn't just to drop the girls off.
"Did he now?" You asked no one in particular, trying to think of an answer without sounding too giddy about it, "Well, if he came here willingly just to taste the treats, he could've just said so."
Your collective giggles put him at ease, prompting him to chuckle. He was partially thankful that he didn't have to rack his brain for an explanation.
"You caught me," He spoke for the first time since his arrival, "Should've known that my girls would throw me under the bus."
"What can I say?" You grinned at the two before giving him a closed-eye smile, "We girls like to share secrets."
I hope not.
He prayed that wasn't entirely true. He wasn't ready, physically or mentally. Even if he didn't have to worry, judging by your relationship with the girls, and somewhere at the back of his mind, he knew Marybeth would've wanted him to move forward. If he was going to proceed with this, he'd want to make it special.
For both you and his girls.
"Yeah? Then, should I worry 'bout you giving my girls a sugar rush, too?" His lighthearted remark caused you to snort.
"There's not a lot, I promise. I just need the validation of my best customers so I'll know what exactly the neighbourhood likes," You pursed your lips, "Oh, and well, your approval, too, I guess."
You grinned as he placed his hand over chest, feigning offense at your statement.
"Shall we get started? I'm sure you three have stuff to do," You stood up from your position.
"Not at all," Joe reassured, "The week's been pretty slow for us." The girls nodded at his statement.
"Well, whatever the case is, I'm grateful, truly," You've always adored the Pickett's. Other than your infatuation for a certain someone, the sisters, too, have a special place in your heart. Even if your day was crappy, their presence could lift your mood in a snap, "C'mon, I've got everything set up."
By the time they arrived, your pecan snickerdoodles had just cooled on the rack. Rather than making the common ol’ pie out of it, you wanted to kick it up a notch, much like the rest of your new seasonal menu, with some help, of course. You have yet to familiarize yourself with the comfort foods here, despite having lived in Wyoming for over six months now, so you needed the aid of true locals, and who better to ask than the Pickett’s?
You didn’t even have the time to ask their opinion on the cookies when they immediately told you to put them on the menu. One of the reasons is being a moreish grab-and-go; the town isn’t always busy, but everyone would always have something to do, so they’d be pleased to have a sweet treat ready in hand, no matter where they are. You couldn’t argue with that, in fact, it was a win-win situation.
With one down, you told them other sets of treats you had in mind, hoping to find two more that could potentially win the hearts of the neighbourhood.
“Pumpkin doughnut sounds nice!”
“But pumpkin cupcakes sounds better!” You didn’t have to ask Joe to know that there was going to be a little argument over this. Luckily for you, he caught on.
“Girls, not in front of the little lady.” His warning was soft but firm enough that they muttered ‘sorry’ to you. You felt bad, knowing they just wanted to help and thought of an idea.
“Tell you what,” You stood between both sisters, stroking their backs, “One day, we can make both the doughnuts and cupcakes, just for you guys,” Their eyes sparkled, looking at you with a silent ‘really?’, “I promise. For now, how about we stick with some good ol’ pumpkin pie?” They didn’t oppose it, so you turned to Joe, “What’d you think, Joe?”
“Can never go wrong with the classics.” He agreed, curtly nodding when you mouthed him a ‘thank you’ for easing the situation with the two. Their slight tension immediately disappeared when they asked you what a crumb cake tasted like. You thought they were joking, but the curiosity in their eyes and even Joe’s head tilt had you realizing that they were in fact, not kidding around.
So, you knew what you had to do.
The four of you got started with the pumpkin pie, considering how long both baking and chill time it would take. You and Sheridan prepared the filling while Lucy and her father worked on the crust you made in the morning. You couldn’t hide your amusement at how the duo were so careful, especially when Lucy repeatedly whispered to him to be careful as he transferred the dough to the pie dish.
"Sorry ma'am." He apologized, despite the guiltless smile on his face at Lucy's pouty glare.
Thirty minutes into its baking time, the girls were still playing tag in the dining area while Joe helped you wipe the cutleries you've washed. Just then, you noticed him looking over the bowl of cream you just whipped.
"Don't think I didn't see you dip your finger in the cream, mister," He whirled around, eyes wide and lips still wrapped around his pinky before he raised his hands in defense. You nearly broke out of your demeanour just remembering how he licked the side of his lips, "What will the girls say if they ever saw their father do such a crime?"
"They'd probably join me," He shrugged.
"Are you accusing them of something, Mr Pickett?"
"I'm just speaking the truth, ma'am," He rested his side against the counter next to you, "They're only behaving now, but God knows if they'd stay that way the next time y'all have another baking party."
"'Next time', huh?" You smirked, hiding your excitement with a teasing look.
"I—" The realization had him snapping his lips shut in a thin line, even praying that the girls would barge in, "Well, I don't doubt that the girls love spending time with you."
"I love spending time with them, too," You put away the last dish, wiping your hands with the rag perched on your shoulder before turning to him, "Between you and me, they're my favourite kids in the neighbourhood."
"Because they visit here almost every day?" He snorted, even if he, too, visited the bakery often.
"Okay, that, too," You pushed his shoulder lightly, "I mean, they've always been… the highlight of my day, y’know? Always sparing their time asking how I've been, even making friends with my staff. They, well, the three of you, are more than just my valued customers."
It was your turn to feel shy, but also nervous, afraid you've crossed the line with your rambling. You nearly said something that could've potentially ruined what you have with the Pickett's, so you stopped there.
But, that man was sharp-eyed.
"Yeah?" He began, sounding more intrigued than you thought, "Then, what are we, little lady?"
His emphasis on 'we' made you wonder if he was talking about all three of them or just Joe himself.
His hand slid across the counter, approaching yours slowly as if he feared he was overstepping boundaries. You didn't move, in fact, you were hoping that he was going to do what he had in mind.
Your breath hitched at the feel of his warm touch. No doubt his hands were bigger, encompassing yours with no problem.
You stared into his eyes, entranced by its ocean blue hue as he waited for your response with much wonder and dare you say, eagerness.
"Joe, I—"
Ding!
The tiny footsteps that approached the kitchen door had you both pulling away at the same time. You were caressing your hand with the other subconsciously, missing the warmth you felt just moments ago. Joe wasn't doing any better, clenching that same fist as if he didn't believe what he did.
"Girls, you're just in time!" You sported a tight smile, partially disappointed that the moment had to end but at the time, thankful that it did; you weren't sure how to answer even if he had given you a day for it, "The pie just got done baking but we gotta leave in the oven for a little bit so it doesn't crack at the top. Is it okay if we work on the crumb cake first?"
"Okay!"
"Cool, cool," You clasped your hands together before turning to Joe, "Uh, could you put the cream in the fridge for a bit, Joe?"
"Right, right." He gave you a thumbs-up, turning around with the bowl in his hand and muttering 'fuck' before making his way to the fridge. Yet, it wasn't out of regret. Not when he was certain that you never did try to push him away.
Throughout the second baking, you and Joe have been exchanging shy looks, which was definitely not a bad thing. Whether or not the girls noticed, you definitely didn't want to find out. His touch lingered till the very end of your activity, even after two hours. His hands were rough, a stark contrast to how gentle he caressed yours. You wouldn't be surprised if he heard how fast your heartbeat grew the second he stood right in front of you.
In the end, you took a piece each for leftovers, a couple of all three treats for the Pickett's and the remaining for the dear old lady and her huge family that you'd often bump into almost every morning.
"Oh wow, it's three already?" Being the last person to leave the kitchen, you gasped at the time, "I made you guys miss lunch! I'm so sorry!"
"Hey, hey, hey, none of that now," Joe interrupted before you could even repeat your apologies, "Had you been doing these all on your own, who knows when you'd take a break," He had a point; you would've been so caught up with work that you wouldn't even realized your own needs.
"Maybe…" You scratched your cheek, "But you guys must be hungry. I know all that sugar couldn't cut it."
You watched as the Pickett's glanced at one another, possibly communicating telepathically before Joe opened his mouth.
"Tell you what," He began, "We don't want you feeling guilty over this 'cause mind you, I—we," He corrected, though everyone caught on pretty quickly, "We had a great time. And here, I thought, I'd leave the place covered in flour."
He preened as your guilt turned into soft giggles.
"But what I'm trying to say is, how's about you join us for lunch?"
You straightened up at his offer.
"You want me to join you guys for lunch?"
"I don't see why not. Girls?" Your eyes dropped to the sisters', not expecting the puppy eyes. He chuckled, noticing their little game, too, "Well, there you go."
"I…" You weren't even sure if the girls leaning forward for your answer was just your own imagination, "I'd love to."
Oh, how wish Joe could cheer the way the girls did, so one could imagine the self-control he needed to respond with a smile.
"Good. Now, come on," The girls walked ahead of the two of you, giving him an opportunity to talk to you one-on-one, "I know a joint who makes good biscuits."
"Oh yeah? Better than mine?"
"You don't make biscuits… Right?" He furrowed brows, trying to remember if you ever did.
"You don't know that, I could make a mean batch," You crossed your arms, "Why, you doubting me, sheriff?"
He playfully rolled his eyes, though the upturn of his lips gave it away. Even after months of knowing you, you still loved to call him sheriff. You argued that it had a better ring to calling him 'Sheriff Pickett' rather than warden or chief.
Not that he minded, really.
"Hey, I never said I did," He stated as-a-matter-of-factly, "But I am going to need proof."
"Careful, sheriff," You tutted, "You might not like it when I'm right."
"Oh, 'when', not 'if'? Pray tell what's it in if it works in your favour?" He moved an inch closer to you, his breath growing heavier when your eyes locked.
"Who knows?" You took him by surprise when sidestepped out of his vision, a cheeky grin at his blinking state, "Only time will tell."
You exited the bakery, taking the seconds-long chance to regulate your burning skin before laughing with the girls as they chased around you. Joe, being the one who offered to close up the shop for you, finally let out a mix between a sigh and a chuckle as he watched the wholesome moment from the window.
Not once did you or Joe ever forget about whatever happened in the kitchen nor did any of you tried to. At this point, there was no way you could mistake it for anything else and yet, you were still too scared to make a move.
Guess you were right about one thing.
Only time will tell.
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