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John Schumacher

@shoehoo.bsky.social
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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 turnuptheamp.com/?author=641916379f…

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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
what the actual fuck is wrong with us? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Delaware court upholds voting by companies in small town's election
A judge in Delaware, where many big U.S. companies are incorporated, ruled ‌on Tuesday that a small town that allows corporations to vote in municipal elections was not violating the state's constitut...
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
55 POINTS 55 REBOUNDS 55 ASSISTS 55 BLOCKS
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Kinda feel like the Onion should only do real stories on April Fools day
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
One of the joys of music fests is discovering great bands you didn't know. Like the awesome Finlands at @sxsw.com
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ah, this makes me so happy, to see Dan and Peggy Reeder on national TV. Truly a gem www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYQR...
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"Maybe" - Dan & Peggy Reeder (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The awfulness of this soothes me like a warm bath. And that somebody convinced themselves it was watchable is hilarious. This is what happens when nobody in the meeting is willing to say “Wait … this looks like hot salted ass, though.”
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Len @len.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
From the Independent: "ICE is rumored to be heading for Philadelphia. Everyone is saying the same thing'

Reaction from ben doyle (@thewheatgerm): "this is the equivalent of hitler sending you to stalingrad"
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
That is cool
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Astonishing. Up until the 1900s, about half of humans died before adulthood. Then came public sanitation, vaccinations and an understanding of germs. (And getting people off farms, which even today is one of the most dangerous jobs)
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/08/2025
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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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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 · 11/07/2025
I-kons, You-kons, Mekons!
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The sun sets behind Warren Haynes on the final night of the Blue Ox festival
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is amazing
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Some say he's still rounding the bases to this day...
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Precisely this
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is waaaay outside my comfort zone, but the crisis facing our country right now is easily the worst in my lifetime (and Watergate was BAD). We all have to do something #handsoff
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
At this year's 30A Songwriters Festival, a great new-to-me discovery was Cat Ridgeway, who's got a terrific new album coming out tomorrow. "Sprinter" is an alt and indie rock delight, inventive and endlessly entertaining. Check out my review for The Amp turnuptheamp.com/home/2025/3/...
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Review- Cat Ridgeway: Sprinter — The Amp
The heart and soul of Cat Ridgeway’s new album is tattooed on her right forearm . It’s an image of a check engine light, the dashboard indicator that there’s something wrong, maybe seriously wrong,...
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
oh good god www.cbsnews.com/news/babysit...
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Babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under child's bed
The babysitter came face-to-face with a man hiding underneath the child's bed, Kansas' Barton County Sheriff's office said.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Did you call Target? Wanna call them again? Did you not call before because you thought it wouldn't make a difference? Wanna call them now? ☎️ Target Employee Relations and Integrity Hotline: 1-800-541-6838
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
spot on
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
John Prine would have been proud of the talent at the 30A Songwriters Festival. Here's my take, including words about and pix of @kellywillis.bsky.social (below), @stevepoltz.bsky.social, @brandyclark.bsky.social, @chuckprophet.bsky.social and others turnuptheamp.com/home/2025/1/...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This list from @countryuniverse.bsky.social includes some great songs by some great young artists, including Katie Pruitt, @indiaramey.bsky.social and Amythyst Kiah www.countryuniverse.net/2025/01/24/t...
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The Best Singles of 2024
Our list of the forty best country singles of 2024, led by Katie Pruitt.
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Poor rest stop choice. My options were Arby's and McDonalds, which is pretty much the only way I end up at a McDonalds. The tastiest part of the chicken "deluxe" sandwich was the mayo
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Heading back to Florida's Gulf Coast to check out the 30A Songwriters Festival, which is usually a good one. Here's my look at last year's fest turnuptheamp.com/home/2024/1/...
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Festival Review: 30A Songwriters Festival — The Amp
I think they might have let me into the artists’ party by mistake at the 30A Songwriters Festival.  I wandered to the back bar of AJ’s Grayton Beach on opening night to check if anyone was perfo...
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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 08/01/2025
The ancient technique of dry farming, an Indigenous Hopi tradition, allows squash, melons, and corn crops to grow without irrigation. buff.ly/41XsCAF
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Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required
The ancient technique of dry farming, an Indigenous Hopi tradition, allows squash, melons, and corn to grow without irrigation.
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is why I try to buy albums, buy merch, buy concert tickets, to give artists money in some way... because streaming doesn't pay jack. And it's why I use Tidal when I stream - at least it pays slightly better. I want (need?) musicians to keep making music, so I try to pay them when they do
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A handy guide to the easy-to-follow, anyone-can-do-it-with-a-little-gumption immigration process, under which you're unlikely to get approval anytime soon even if you do successfully navigate it
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
It is remarkable that there are still people who believe that the reason hundreds of thousands of people have nowhere to live is that we haven’t made having nowhere to live unpleasant enough.
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Shinyribs @shinyribs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten NCAA QB the win
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The final US Presidential vote count is out (yes, I know, rest of the world!). According to Cook Political Report analysis, the election was decided by just 229,766 votes across MI, PA and WI out of about 155.2 million cast nationally.
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is an excellent idea. Found something you loved on streaming? Those streams don't pay jack. So, buy something from the artist so that they can make more music!
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Some good tips here
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
yes and yes
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hoping Sturgill is right
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
3 singular talents - Brennen Leigh, Melissa Carper and @kellywillis.bsky.social - join forces as the Wonder Women of Country, packing more easygoing joy and delight in 6 songs than most albums do at twice the length. And the Prine cover is killer turnuptheamp.com/home/2024/3/...
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Review- Wonder Women of Country: Willis, Carper, Leigh — The Amp
The Wonder Women of Country are here to save us from the mundane in modern country music. Three of country’s most distinctive voices  – Kelly Willis, Melissa Carper and Brennen Leigh – have made...
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you haven't yet joined the cult of honky-tonk firebrand @indiaramey.bsky.social, her most recent album is an excellent place to start. Baptized by the Blame is a ripsnorter, galloping at 90 mph one moment, salving wounds the next. turnuptheamp.com/home/2024/8/...
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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 · 24/11/2024
To know Melissa Carper is to love her. You might think you're gonna get all old-timey music. You will, but there's much more. Her most recent album hits country, jazz, blues, even R&B, with lyrics that'll break your heart and make you laugh out loud. She's a treasure turnuptheamp.com/home/2024/7/...
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Review- Melissa Carper: Borned In Ya — The Amp
There’s an easy musicality to Melissa Carper. It feels as if her soul is so steeped in music that she could pluck a tune out of the sky, Willie Nelson-like , anytime she wants.  So, it seems ...
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John Schumacher @shoehoo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Might as well post a few of my favorite reviews here... Johnny Dowd is a your-favorite-musician's-favorite-musician kind of guy. His most recent album swings, rocks and is slyly witty turnuptheamp.com/home/2023/11...
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Review – Johnny Dowd: Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know? — The Amp
You might not know Johnny Dowd. In fact, the self-deprecating Dowd would say the same thing. But your favorite musician probably knows who he is.  Amy LaVere told a story recently on a Memph...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Voter: I'm tired of being kicked in the nuts Pollster: Are you in favor of or do you oppose nut kicking Voter: in Favor of Pollster: um ok Do you think it will hurt Voter: oh yeah
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/11/2024
"Here the numbers as they actually exist in the real world: Transgender: 1 percent Muslim: 1 percent Jewish: 2 percent Black: 12 percent Live in New York City: 2 percent Gay or lesbian: 3 percent" If they're this divorced from reality I guarantee these folks cannot conceive magnitude of $1bn
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
finally a reasonable take
Liberals and the left do not need the right to
be online in the way that the right needs
liberals and the left. The nature of reactionary
politics demands constant confrontations-
literal reactions- to the left. People like Rufo
would have a substantially harder time trying
to influence opinions on a platform without
liberals. "Triggering the libs" sounds like a
joke, but it is often essential for segments of
the right. This explains the popularity of some
X accounts with millions of followers, such as
Libs of TikTok, whose purpose is to troll
liberals.
The more liberals leave X, the less value it
offers to the right, both in terms of cultural
relevance and in opportunities for trolling.
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