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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I humbly offer Margo Price and Sturgill Simpson to this list.

MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It looks like grandpa's abandoned farmstead to people where I live. His kids and grandkids mostly moved to find jobs a generation ago. People stopped living there when he died. Now, his land and his neighbors land is run by somebody else. It emblematic of the hollowing out of rural America.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am struggling to figure out if "popular songs" means something different now, or i just got old? We used to have a common experience with whatever was on the radio or MTV. Now, we can all settle into curated genres. But i have no idea what isngetting played in the school parking lot, either.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was more like 20, but i remember having a dream/nightmare featuring this imagery.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Have you ever noticed how quickly "let's get a picture" can end a perfectly pleasant party? People just dont ho back to socializing and start packing up.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've made this observation many times at my kid's sports. Parents sacrifice experiencing something happening in front of them in exchange for capturing a bunch of video they will never watch again.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It has been interesting watching old fashioned's take off in the rest of the country as a trendy cocktail and not a way to consume cheap brandy and plenty of it.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You haven't lived until you've lived in a place where the grocery store has an entire cheese aisle, the convenience store has a walk in beer cooler, and the supper club on County Road W (as opposed to County Road UU) serves a brandy old fashioned with pan fried walleye on friday night.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I was through Forman the other day. Nice little town.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

gets incredible air here

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Its crazy how much muscle memory a person has years later. I could still absolutely dismantle anybody born after 1988 in techmo superbowl, even if i dont exploit the glitches.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hunter Thompson had that line. Something like if you look close enough, you can see the place where the wave broke and rolled back to the sea, as a metaphor for the hope of the 60's. I feel very much this way about how are collective response to covid ran out of steam. We had a chance for a while

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I mean, think about it. If you go back to when the pumpkins were relevant, the rolling stones would have been the same age then as the pumpkins are now, and they would not have been on the same bill

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I look at that lineup and think "wow. Im old". I imagine the nearly 60 year old Billy Corgan is going to present that dynamic in sharp relief.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"I've seen Jesus play with flames in the lake of fire that I was standing in"

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We call that broke-ass first class

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It would get light around 330am here in June, so that wouldn't be ideal.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Local bar here serves a variation it calls an olive burger. Its a burger with a pile of sliced green olives and a thick slice of cream cheese. Much better than it sounds.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Verify your age" My first car required I take into consideration season, temperature, and vibes to figure out how many times to pump the accelerator before turning the key and praying "please don't be flooded" to whatever diety I thought may intervene in a 1978 chevy.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Its like playing peek-a-boo with a toddler. Twice is fun, three times because you are there, but any more and everyone feels a little awkward.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I really enjoyed this episode. In many ways, it was my favorite so far. Like others, I had never heard of GTO, but at this point, you have earned my complete trust on subject matter. This one did not disappoint at all, and i will be recommending it to friends.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Still the case in rural North Dakota. What the GPS considers "roads" encompasses a large range of potential surfaces. I have had to reverse a mile or more at times because of it.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I bet some cheese and some kind of horseradish would make that thing life- changing.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I know a guy who was struck, and it must have really sucked, because if he so much as hears thunder, he's running inside.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In my experience, the 3rd or 4th day of working in the heat, when you think you are getting 'used to it', or when it gets a few degrees cooler and you let your guard down is when you can get in trouble.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On the other hand, the ads are so burned in for me that had you told me 15 minutes ago that it was still being sold, I would have not even questioned it.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/06/2026

"You did not paddle through the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to participate in a national metaphor. To you, this was not a site of national remembrance, civic pilgrimage, or the weigh-in for a nationally televised cage match bloodsport. It was simply water."

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An Open Letter to the Dead Duck Seen Floating In the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

“You did not paddle through the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to participate in a national metaphor. To you, this was not a site of national remembrance, ...

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I looked it up. Actually, the UNI Dome has hosted a bunch of amazing concerts over the last 50 years.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I wonder how many people were at that show? Cedar Falls is like 50000 people, and probably a bit less in 1975, right?

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The speed and lack of percieved transparency from building these things has not created trust. Locally, going from announcement to approval to breaking ground on a 3 billion dollar facility in a few days directly ahead of a North Dakota winter certainly left people talking.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I have some shreddies in our pantry, but they are open. I have a standing order with my canadian family to bring a box everytime they cross the border to visit. They are good.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It read Barelby, the Scrivner and realized it could say "I would rather not"?

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Morris Day and the Time are great and seemed really out of place on that bill. But it also seems nobody maybe told them they were going to be on it?

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I am not nearly that interesting!

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I read it every few years when I find im in a damp drizzly November. I have at least 6 copies and have gifted many more.. I grab it whenever I see an unloved one in the wild.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

When you see him towering over nba players, its impressive how big he is

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

He has to be the first super tall guy who doesnt look like all knees and elbows on the court, though. He is athletic for being that tall.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I was too busy at work to even think about criming. Maybe tomorrow if I get a minute.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So now what? The search engine returns a derivative of a derivative? Probably not great.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

More and more, those links were to some AI generated slop anyway. Even before this, it was getting really hard to ask a question and find a link that had a real answer.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You know what is missing? Suicidal Tendencies. They would almost be on Mt Punkmore, but apparently not this list.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I missed it. A punk list without them in the top 10 feels a lot like trolling.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I see Blink-182 is rated higher than Social Distortion, and the Dead Kennedys seem to be missing entirely. At least X is on the list.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I have heard that song for like 40 years or something, and I am still find different ways to inturpret it. I've come to think that lefty is set up in opposition to poncho. Poncho went in a blaze of glory, but lefty was some guy from Ohio that fizzled out. They were from different times.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thinking more, I appreciated some of these without ever really "liking" them. I understand why they are on the list, but they just didn't resonate. That doesn't mean they're overrated or I'm not sophisticated enough. It just is what it is

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I enjoy english lit and have read many of these. Some of them take a lot of effort and were not easy to read, but they are still art, and sometimes appreciating art is hard work. Not entirely unlike how I feel about captain beefheart or something.

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MattInTheCorn @mattinthecorn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

On a pure lark, i googled him, and it appears that he had a successful, if straight laced, career in the ministry and liturgical music publishing. He may have been a fish out of water at that show.

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