February 2012
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Me: When have you ever known me to be serious?
Coworker: Honestly, it's really hard to tell with you.
Me: [I'm not sure what a normal response would be; I might have giggled like Ron Swanson]
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herplaygroundspills replied to your post: Reductio ad absurdum:
I was just talking about this with people last night!
I once used it in my Ethics class. It was the last thing said in class that day.
Reductio ad absurdum:
it’s one of my favorites.
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“They don’t make these cords in bootcut anymore!”
– Gabe Lewis
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“And above the din, let the sighing begin, as we’re bound for the longest...”
– A.A. Bondy | “American Hearts”
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motherchief:
Emmylou by First Aid Kit
I’ll be...
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Me | “There is a Time” (The Dillards)
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girlmeetsbanjo replied to your chat: Coworker: How can he love bluegrass? He’s an…
who is this person? i can make them a playlist. :)
Haha, it wouldn’t help any. This conversation started with him proclaiming that he realized how much he liked bluegrass. This revelation resulting from his rediscovery of O Brother, Where Art Thou?. He’ll forget about bluegrass until he...
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Sometimes good things come on Tuesdays
And on Tuesdays like today, even greater things happen. Bear witness:
Disc 1a:
Tom Dooley
Alberta
Froggie Went A-Courtin’
Beaumont Rag
St. James Hospital
Muskrat
Disc 1b:
Down In The Valley To Pray
Blue Railroad Train
Rising Sun Blues
Shady Grove
My Rough And Rowdy Ways
The Train That Carried My Girl From Town
Disc 2a:
Black Mounain Rag
I Was A Stranger
Blueridge...
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Coworker: How can he love bluegrass? He's an atheist. Aren't [the songs] all religious like "I'll Fly Away"?
Me: Well, there are a lot of murder ballads....
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I don’t know about y’all, but when I am sitting in an 8 AM Animal Phys class and learning about everything that goes into neural impulses and skeletal muscular mechanics, I can’t but barely sit still. Realizing what all goes into just moving your finger up and down and around just makes it imperative that I play table piano and various air percussion instruments. So acutely aware...
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At 0:32 of Punch Brothers’ The Girl … that arpeggio.
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I must have banged my hand or something, because now my thumb bones hurt when I chord a B minor. Well any barred chord really, but B minor is the only one I feel like playing right now.
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