A Presidents of the United States of America song in 2026? Caroline Rose's 'Yip Yip Yow'

 For those who don't know, in my list of perfect albums when I can remember them

#1- Lorde Pure Heroine

#2- The Presidents of The United States of America- The Presidents of the United States of America

I'm sure there are more but those are the top two I can think of right now. 

The 1995 debut album by the Seattle-based alt rock band is PERFECTION. 

I won't waste time with a bunch of words listen to Kick Out The Jams: https://youtu.be/yLGeRBwtPEc?si=TDOC8xW60JhnBtno

Now listen to Yip Yip Yow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gj3maiYT4

No wait wait. Listen to--um--listen to Meanwhile Back in the City after 40 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOJY_m2rVk

So good. Soooooo good.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo good.

yip yip freaking yow.

just saw a commercial that said "ever since initial whisperings started trickling--"

 and then I hit skip ad.

But wow what a phrase

"initial whisperings started trickling"

One reason I like that phrase is because, depending on how you choose to pronounce them, two of the words could have two or three syllables.

whis-per-ings or whis-prings

tri-kuh-ling or -trick-ling

It's Shakespearean in that way.

It has internal rhyme too.

You also get the 'sh' in initial, the "spr" in whisperings, 'st' in started, and "tr" in trickling. That's called consonance I believe.

Initial whisperings started trickling.

It's good because it doesn't belong in an ad. 

It's like a horse in a Costco.

you've been wearing sunglasses inside with the lights turned on

the need for some big audacious conclusion

 what about the need for some big audacious conclusion?

what this blog needs is for some big audacious conclusion.

But, to really have that it's better if you've been building tension and raising the stakes in some way over time. 

This blog is like taking a really long walk and thinking stuff and sometimes finding stuff and looking at it and thinking about it.

Crab is the other character. Or possibly only character.

Teleology is the view that things are defined by their end. Things exist for the purpose of meeting an end.

Etiology is the study of causes and origins.

Deontology is unrelated to the study of Deion "Primetime" Sanders. It's the view that 'good' or 'bad' actions are independent of outcomes and the goodness or badness of something is based on its adherence to certain rules or principles. 

There is no end point to this blog. It's not building to anything. There is no origin either really. My friends in high school had them and I made one too. 

It does adhere to a certain imperative though. To post. Make a post. 

If this blog has any destiny it's to be an ancient artifact that we have long since lost the context to possibly understand.

That's where the money is.

The Eight Great Soup Dangers

 this section does not include mention of the lesser soup dangers

1- Soup too hot

2- Soup too cold

3- Soup is poison

4- Soup too salty

5- Soup too watery

6- Soup congealed

7- Soup corrupted

8- Soup too little

what if you could stack your laters to the ceiling and back?

your drive around with all your laters in the trunk of your car?

or be buried with your laters?

have all your laters with you all the time and always collecting more.

more laters. more laters.

 I was watching a video made by a climbing coach today and he was talking about climbers who prioritize safety and security and how that can lead to your world becoming smaller and smaller. If you become completely risk-averse over improving then the scope of what you're willing to try narrows. 

Some might argue that dwelling is an attitude where you intentionally shrink your world and narrow your focus and that's a fair point. I would counter that by saying if you go to a forest and just run around and try to see every tree in the forest as fast as possible you probably will see more trees than someone who stops to sit still. But the person that stops and sits is the one who's going to see the animals come out of hiding and hear the songs of the birds and experience the actual life of the woods. Anything worthwhile takes a moment of stillness to realize. Which animal comes out when someone is rushing around like a maniac? A little yippy dog. You can love a little yippy dog but do you love that it just mindlessly barks at anything and everyone? Even people that love their dog more than anything will still put on the most bitter annoyed voice you've ever heard to say, "SHUT UP COCO!"

But I also think it's a tricky thing to know which is which. I think there is worthwhile meaning to be found in doing one thing all the way but also it's a trap to close the world off because of fear. So, like, meditate on that.