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Reinvent the wheel. I mean it, literally. Build a small toy, and make it mobile with some spinning parts, but without using pre-made wheels. What will you use? Look around the house, or to be more authentic still, go walk in a forest. Take stock of what the natural world offers you. Perhaps you could take this round-ish stone and polish it to make it evenly circular. Or you could cut a slice of a small tree.

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Just wrapped up a nearly two-hour conversation with Dilbert creator Scott Adams. If you’re wondering why the hell I would be having a conversation with Dilbert creator Scott Adams, please read this post from a few days ago. When Scott reached out to me to appear on his show, I agreed, hoping that we would discuss his claim that political news is fake. I emphasized with him before our conversation that that was the topic I wanted to discuss.

Wow. It’s been five years since we lost Butch Trucks. FIVE YEARS. Below is a verbatim repost of what I wrote the next day in a haze of sadness, confusion, anger and exhaustion. There are some edits I would normally make, but I think it best to let the rawness stand. I was operating on no sleep because I had gotten a call confirming the awful news at midnight and spent all night staring at the ceiling in disbelief, tossing and turning in anguish, anger and self recrimination.

Let’s take a ride down memory lane and end the story we all cried while watching on a happy note. After the first bittersweet reunion, this not-so-viral second reunion melts hearts equally much, if not more. Years ago, we all had seen this video somewhere on the Internet where two middle school buddies meet after decades in a courtroom. That was not the kind of reunion anyone of us would hope for.

*To celebrate the paperback release of Fentanyl, Inc., I’m doing a live online event with Subterranean Books on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm central. Hope to see you there! *This is a Drugs + Hip-Hop free post. Subscribe here. The Hip-Hop 25 continues soon with Run-DMC. For decades rappers have espoused their love for marijuana — aka (in roughly chronological order) mary jane, cheeba, sess, bubonic chronic, ganja, dro, bud, indo, kush, and gas.

My childhood friend’s bother Jason White along with fellow students Judy Davis, Beamon Hill, and teacher Robert Brens were killed in the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting, in my hometown known as the Yuba-Sutter region of northern California on Friday, May 1, 1992. The 20-year-old killer held an estimated 80 students hostage in a standoff for eight hours. This was one of the first school mass shootings at a time when they were extremely rare.

It’s hard to imagine a funeral procession being a joyous celebration but that’s exactly what happened when fans turned out in droves to honour rap icon Biggie Smalls. Biggie died on March 9, 1997 after being gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles and nine days later thousands of people lined the streets of his hometown neighbourhood Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.  Biggie, born Christopher Wallace, was raised in an apartment on St.

You can also find this in podcast form on Substack, on Patreon, or at davidrovics.com/thisweek. Sometime late last month I saw a post on an email list that mentioned that Al Giordano had died in July.  It took well over a month since Al's death from lung cancer at the age of 63 on July 10th, 2023, for the news to reach me.  That in itself was the first thing that seemed significant to me.