love and miracles out of nowhere

drew gooden video: The us governments obsession with integrating ai into every facet of our daily lives is going to bring about the collapse of society if we don’t get of our ass and start taking action

Their reputation is deserved. I mean I knew they were talented beyond belief from being a fan and listener but I don't think that fully sunk in until I witnessed it happening in real time in front of me. It sounded almost one to one with the recordings it was incredible. The drummer they picked for this tour (Anika), she is a fucking BADASS. And given she's filling in for their drummer (Neil) who died of cancer in 2020 who is widely considered the best drummer of all time, it's a stressful position to be in, and that's why the way the crowd went wild when she did famous parts, solos, and fills, made me so happy. Seriously, I have seen people in her position get so much hate from fans, and the chances of hate are unfortunate greater when that person is a woman. That just wasn't the case here. I only saw like maybe 5 angry old Rush dudes talking about how they should've chosen this other guy who plays the drums, or they shouldn't do this tour at all because it's disrespectful to Neil. One of those people got ratioed by like 100 comments in an INSTAGRAM comment section like dude you know it's serious when gen x'ers are the ones ratioing.

Speaking of that I knew the crowd was gonna be like 90% gen x but that was especially obvious when during slower songs, no one got out their phone and turned the light on and started swaying it from side to side lmfao.

Yeah that was life changing. There is no better way to have spent $750. And even the money we lost on the last trip when it got postponed because of the hotel and gas and food prices, that plus the hotel and gas and food prices for this trip isn't in vein either. I never thought I'd get the chance to see them. I knew them growing up because of my dad mainly (fork found in kitchen, in fact there were so many Rush dads with their Rush daughters it was kind of funny) but I only got super into them in 2024. They'd stopped touring in 2015, and then after Neil died I think most people thought yeah, nothing is ever happening again.

“white men can’t be oppressed” -> gay men

“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men

“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men

“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men

“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men

“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and

Powers, Charles T.. "Opposites Who Attracted Pulitzer Prize." The Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1974, p. 1 Part IV.

terrible scan is terrible but I'm not fucking w/ newspapers dot com, so IA.org it is. (as such, I've taken the liberty of brightening etc to make it more legible #disabilitypridemonth) if I can ever find another version that's cleaner, I'll bring the picture back fs

meanwhile, here's them reading this exact story in san fran: