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On Tim Walz, Gus Walz, and Neurodivergence
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I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song
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Deep Dive: Joan in the Garden
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Live from the Farm
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Demonstration Tapes: Days of Elaine
The time that it takes, it goes so slow
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Annotated Songs: Down By the Water
A song from 2011 bats its lashes
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My Favorite Things 2025
Another year in the trenches
Dec 30, 2025
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Live from the Farm
In which I give the new rig an airing
Dec 13, 2025
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Song Tutorial: Severed
And a history on the evolution of the song
Dec 9, 2025
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Minneapolis/Chicago Solo Shows
Coming your way in March '26
Nov 18, 2025
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Demonstration Tapes
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Demonstration Tapes: Annan Water
Oh great river
Oct 28, 2025
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Demonstration Tapes: Eli The Barrow Boy
Out from the water troughs and the barrow downs
May 13, 2025
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Demonstration Tapes: One Engine
The one that (barely) got away
Mar 4, 2025
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Demonstration Tapes: Acts of Men (aka A Beginning Song)
An early early draft
Dec 5, 2024
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Other Peoples' Songs
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Other Peoples' Songs: Oh My Stars
Rest easy, Michael Hurley
Apr 15, 2025
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Other Peoples' Songs Request Line: The Sun and the Rainfall
Returning to Depeche Mode
Oct 21, 2024
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Other Peoples' Songs: Me and Magdalena
In which I take a crack at Ben Gibbard's Monkeesong
Jan 23, 2024
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Other Peoples' Song Request Line: The Shins' "Those to Come"
Chutes Too Narrow is twenty!
Dec 5, 2023
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Song Tutorials
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Song Tutorial: Severed
And a history on the evolution of the song
Dec 9, 2025
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Song Tutorial: Eli the Barrow Boy
4 chords and a ghost
Jun 10, 2025
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Song Tutorial: The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
Come all ye fuzz pedals
Jan 23, 2025
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Song Tutorials: The Gymnast, High Above the Ground
It's been ever so, ever so gray
Nov 13, 2024
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The Reading Room
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The Reading Room Feb '25
stuff what i've been reading
Feb 12, 2025
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The Reading Room September '24
The Machine Shop pivots to video
Sep 24, 2024
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The Reading Room: April '23
On Kafkaesqueties
Apr 29, 2023
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The Reading Room, March '23
Onward from the Pickwick Club
Mar 22, 2023
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Lost Songs
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Lost Songs: In Listvyanka
A Siberian reverie
Sep 18, 2025
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Lost Songs: Our Holidays
A sad little thing from the I'll Be Your Girl days
Jul 9, 2024
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Lost Songs Preservation Project: Honest Dog
Sipping will not make you thinner
Jul 7, 2023
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Lost Songs Preservation Project: Half A Mind
Yoinked from 2002
May 26, 2023
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