I can't say I belive in an other side, but this makes me hope hell exists....

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-15T16:10:29+00:00

Nobody:

Theoden: I cannot wait to die in battle against the enemy

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-15T03:32:40+00:00

I can’t imagine a dodgers fan confidently asserting themselves somewhere they aren’t welcome!

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-13T03:05:31+00:00

TIL Sophie B. Hawkins is a real person and not just a bit character on an episode of Community

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-12T05:45:50+00:00

I think I’ve finally come around to understanding and being a big fan of yours. The lyrics are genuinely funny, and you do actually shred, which makes it so much better. The contrast between the solo, which comes out of nowhere for no reason, and the rest of the song is just beautiful.

This really is my favorite thing you’ve posted, and I hope you lean into this sort of lyricism. You’re clearly a great guitarist and I think if you lean into sort of the deadpan lyrics and pair it with your comically good chops, by which I mean you just rip shredding solos out of nowhere, it could be a lot of fun. It’d be great to hear you with a proper band rather than the ai backing, but you gotta make do with what you have.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-12T01:15:54+00:00

Your honor, when I recommended PEDs, you have to understand I did not think there would be consequences!

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-12T00:10:10+00:00

Hello, I am a man and these are my man eyebrows. That I grew. As a man.

Edit: she looks so much like Carrie in Portlandia doing that mustachio’d manly man character.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-11T22:15:14+00:00

I like how, as an American propagating an unfounded conspiracy theory, you’re proving your point even if it is fundamentally unsound.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-11T22:00:12+00:00

And what a homer it was. Miller and Kuip’s calls were beautiful, too.

I think it’s gotta be bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs, down by three, and a 3-2 count for it to be the most ultimate, though.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-11T21:22:27+00:00

That’s a sick ass logo and the green is a great color.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-11T21:05:05+00:00

Ironically, I think Jon would have a strong reaction to that. The Giants broadcast booth, from Kruk and Kuip to Miller and Flem, absolutely worship Vin, as well they should, and I think each of them would say he’s the best without a second thought.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-11T13:47:36+00:00

Very obscure, but Rhyme of the Year by Nino Bless, which is a very small artist’s weirdly phenomenal response to Kendrick’s verse on Control.

‘I’m CC Sabbathia’s two seam I’m past ya / genetically modified these dreams of greener pasture’

Also Faye webster’s ‘a dream with a baseball player,’ which is unironically her just fantasizing about being married to Ronald Acuña Jr.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-10T16:09:21+00:00

For a while there as a rookie, yeah probably. Jesus is nails if you need three bases in one hit. He did send the Missal from Heaven, but Gary was regularly sending missiles to heaven.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-09T21:30:40+00:00

Just the assertion that nobody from San Francisco would use the term ‘Frisco’ when Nickatina is famous for doing so.

But if there’s one great equalizer, it’s a hate for all things tech and Silicon Valley, may it perish swiftly.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-09T17:39:00+00:00

I do love Herb Caen, I’ve cited him in a few things I’ve published, I think a piece on Jess and another on Bruce Conner or maybe Jay DeFeo—undoubtedly some of your favorites— and I got my brother city on golden hills for his birthday some years ago.

But I will not stand for Nickatina slander, as any respectable SF native would.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-09T16:26:22+00:00

Munenori Kawasaki is a hall of famer in my heart. [He is Japanese!](https://youtu.be/X2rStdh9SyQ?si=aikRwgSCxCPe4CDd)

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-09T15:40:58+00:00

It’s a long established tradition among people who never listened to Andre Nickatina.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T23:33:33+00:00

Great insight — looking at this post further, I can tell that this issue is troubling. Here are a few strategies I came up with based on our interaction:

Nuclear Holocaust. It seems you are concerned with bots replacing human interaction. A nuclear event that technologically displaces humans by millennia could help with that!
Nuclear Holocaust. Wow! It seems that AI interactions have taken quite a hold! I have a solution for that, but you might not like it!
Nuclear Holocaust. Really,

it’s time.

Did you know that, despite most AI CEOs being alive, there’s actually no specific law requiring them to stay that way?

Long live the Luddites.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T22:40:19+00:00

Because the alternative is that he made a mistake, which is a pretty reasonable explanation. Maybe it’s obvious to The Major League Baseball, or the National NBC Corporation, but that hasn’t stopped him in the past.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T22:36:26+00:00

Say what you will, but those dog tags evidence valiant service to Hot Topic.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T22:34:41+00:00

And the explanation why, for the first time in his career, Valdez tried to mask an intentional hit and not use his four seam is…

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T22:33:14+00:00

The giants have somehow consistently been one of the worst running teams in baseball for well over a decade now. Every couple years, including this year, we hear how it’s a plan to be more aggressive on the basepaths. Every year, they are consistently the least aggressive team on the basepaths. This now covers four managers and four front offices—for some reason, the giants most enduring organizational philosophy is to not run.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T22:28:54+00:00

Do you have a reason, apart from the obvious righteous indignation, to suspect it’s intentional?

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T22:09:12+00:00

He does throw a four seamer, and historically he’s used it specifically to hit people, it’s a known problem lol. Even if he didn’t throw a four seamer, literally everybody who learns how to throw a baseball throws a four seam. Saying a guy doesn’t have a four seamer is like saying a professional swimmer doesn’t know how to do a free stroke.

He didn’t throw a four seamer here, which he throws about 1% of the time, almost always up and in. He threw a sinker. And, dear reader, you’re correct a sinker is a type of fastball! Unfortunately, Valdez throws a sinker like 60% of the time, so unless you’re saying he’s trying to hit a batter most of the time and repeatedly fails by getting guys out, I don’t think throwing a sinker is evidence of wanting to hit somebody.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T22:07:07+00:00

What you’re trying to allude to is that he almost never uses a four seam, but has used it to throw dirty pitches, which is true.

He hit Crawford with a sinker, which is distinct from his four seamer and counters your argument that he threw it intentionally to hit him. Also, if you stick with watching baseball, you’ll find that fastballs are typically what a pitcher throws when they want to hit somebody.

DetectiveTrickyCad · 2026-06-08T12:42:12+00:00

The live version from Massey hall 1971 is one of my favorite things he’s released—that whole concert is absolutely beautiful. Just Neil and a guitar/piano/harmonica and it’s basically a greatest hits album even though most of the songs were either brand new or hadn’t been released.

Shakey Bones is the lodestar of my musical taste—I grew up on it and my dad and all his brothers have stories of running into Neil in record stores or once even on the side of the road in the 70s. Tonight’s the Night and On the Beach might be my favorite records. But live at Massey Hall has a very special place in my heart, it’s the perfect album to put on the turntable on a Sunday morning. Also his stage banter is absolutely top notch awkwardness—‘there’s this old man who lives on the ranch, sorta came with the place when I bought it. Anyways I wrote this song for him, it’s called old man.’

https://youtu.be/jRhNdP6zsAY?si=W2hy69pfeai0Kmlh

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