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John Schumacher

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Just another wiseass. Connoisseur of the ridiculous. My life's labor is words. Music is my jam. Find my music writing at The Amp https://turnuptheamp.com/?author=641916379ff8112841963d84

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 18d

Oof. Well, the choice of whether to buy a ticket to see her or India Ramey got a lot easier

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 18d

At the dentist/oral surgeon office, and I cringed when a middle aged guy walked out and announced "no cavities!" But 3 receptionists and an assistant cheered and clapped for him and it was so heartwarming and now I'm a little emotional. Maybe we need more clapping and cheering for little victories

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 21d

Psst! There's a typo in the story headline www.mlb.com/news/brewers...

Miz, Glasser make NLDS roster, as it's all hands on deck for Crew

MILWAUKEE – Rookie pitchers Jacob Misiorowski and Robert Gasser are in. Rhys Hoskins is out. And the Brewers’ roster for their supercharged National League Division Series against the rival Cubs is se...

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 26d

Is he supposed to be related to Kenny Powers? This is confusing www.imdb.com/title/tt0866...

Eastbound & Down (TV Series 2009–2013) ⭐ 8.2 | Comedy, Drama, Sport

30m | TV-MA

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Sep 23

That's a great book - feels like just hanging out with them and hearing them tell tales of their lives. And Bobbi's last album with Amanda Shires is great too - very soul-healing

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm just back from Toronto and thought the same thing. It's like Chicago, if public works were adequately funded

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Waffle Sticks is a pretty good band name

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Agreed. Seems somehow like a cousin to Glenfern from Total Freedom (my fav on that album)

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Listening to that album over the weekend, here's a line that made me stop and listen closer: "Here's the truth wrapped up in a lie / I never cared, I never tried" Damn. And the whole song is great (Say Goodbye, Tell No One)

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 16

This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris

Small Kindnesses
by Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Aug 14

hmm. Mimi's name is misspelled in at least three ways in the photo gallery below the story...

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Aug 13

Goes hand in hand, I think, with the framing of every issue through the lens of whether it helps or hurts one political party or the other

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Aug 10

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jul 11

I-kons, You-kons, Mekons!

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 29

The sun sets behind Warren Haynes on the final night of the Blue Ox festival

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 27

It reminds me of last year's kick-ass honky tonk album from the great @indiaramey.bsky.social, one of my fav albums of last year turnuptheamp.com/home/2024/8/...

Review- India Ramey: Baptized by the Blaze — The Amp

Baptized by the Blaze , the new album by outlaw country firebrand India Ramey, hits the ground at a full gallop and barely stops for a breath over 30-plus blazing, twanging minutes. It’s a rousing ble...

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Check out this fab new album, the debut full-length from Rah Rah Rabbit, and my review for The Amp. "Sassy, irreverent, head-nodding and butt-wiggling good fun, filled with hard-won truths and glimpses of life not far from either side of the poverty line." turnuptheamp.com/home/2025/6/...

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 16

what a terrific young songwriter

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 13

Lord knows Summerfest has its flaws, but holy hell - a 9-day pass is $130. Most 2 or 3 or 4 day fests start at $250 and go way, way up from there. And you're not stuck in some godforsaken field

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 8

Ah, thanks, missed that. Right before Machado's homer

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 8

Why pinch hit lefty Collins for lefty Bauers (vs lefty pitcher)?

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 5

deja vu again and again and again... I was working in a newsroom 15 year ago when we were all "pivoting to video" because that's where the money was and it turned out the video views were wildly inaccurate and oh look I guess the money isn't there

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · Jun 5

worse yet, sometimes they get elected

John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · May 23

Favre and Rodgers are the quintessential examples of why you should never name your dog after a sports hero

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · May 23

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

exp-log scale chart showing various animals and forms of human motion with the X-axis being kilograms on an exponential scale and the Y-axis being cost of transport in calories per gram per kilometer on a logarithmic scale

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