John Moe

New pinned tweet! Depresh Mode! Acclaimed mental health pod! maximumfun.org/podcasts/dep... Sleeping with Celebrities! Comedy sleep aid pod! maximumfun.org/podcasts/sle... The Hilarious World of Depression! memoir! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... I'd like to play a weird old guy in a movie!

I think it’s sweet that after all these years none of us have told Bruce Springsteen that Atlantic City isn’t even in Nebraska. He doesn’t need to know. He would be so embarrassed. Shh.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

My dad has been gone a long time but if there’s one thing I wish I could ask him to expand on it would be his love of Kafka’s The Trial and his belief that it was hilarious. I feel like knowing more about that would unlock him. Ask your parents about their weird shit before it’s too late.

Someone will have to break the news to G’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Flip.

Auto insurance spam. This ended up being short for bitcoin and not what I thought. Not sure which is worse.

Did you know fish can kind of experience schizophrenia? Did you know a horse isn't a great therapist but can still be helpful? Do you want some non animal based solutions to grief? All that and more in this week's newsletter! johnmoe.substack.com/p/grief-schi...

Well this is one of my favorite short stories I've read in a while and it also happens to be a 3-minute song. Damn. Damn. youtu.be/rVZkyOuu_4o?...

Ngl, @johnmoe.bsky.social, today's Depresh Mode was like a slug to the chest - but in a good way. I'd never realized how much I was grieving the things I'd lost - or never had - until that context you and Megan Devine provided. Lotta thinking to do now. And I'M glad YOU'RE here.

BlueSky has five kinds of users.

Had a dead battery and the AAA guy asked what I did for work. Forgot to say potato scientist and told him the truth (mental health podcaster and writer). We talked for a while, he opened up about friends lost to suicide and subscribed to my show. So that was okay too.

Lula won? Oh wow, I met him in a club down in old Suho.

(staring at enormous New York studio festooned with ornate gold fixtures) “It’s like if Saddam opened Warhol’s factory.”

Since #CheesecakeFactory is all over the timeline, enjoy this all-timer Wits sketch by @johnmoe.bsky.social featuring Steven Yeun

Sure, I demand a lot from my students. More than they are capable of. And maybe I yell at them. A LOT. Do I teach them what’s in the lesson plan? Rarely. Will my class help them in the future? Ha. Of course not. But that’s why they call me The Worst Teacher Anyone’s Ever Seen.

Don’t you DARE make me like the Pittsburgh Steelers. The nerve.

Everyone’s fixated on the Cheesecake Factory part and ignoring the Saddam Hussein part. It wasn’t just a gag about Cheesecake Factory. The joke is all about the absurd pairing to illustrate the ridiculousness of the target.

Imagine never having heard *of* Soundgarden and your first exposure is them playing live 15 feet in front of you in 1989. I lived that. (Nirvana was supposed to open but the college’s student government wouldn’t pay them their requested $500.)

He knows what he did.

Podcast listener said I was a "Charlie Rose level interviewer without the problematic issues." I'll take that one. Put it in my pocket.

Before I ever saw Soundgarden in concert, I had seen many popular 80's pop-metal bands. Seconds into the first song, I realized that this wasn't deedly-deedly fast guitar. This guitar had a job and that job was industrial demolition.

To be fair, that's always why I go to Costco.

Where are you going with this, Martin Sheen?

The whole world no longer smells like cigarettes.

People are nicer to dogs.

Miles of walk with dogs: 4 Klobuchar & Flanagan yard signs: tons Ratio of Klobuchar to Flanagan: 1:1 Ratio a few weeks ago: 3:1 Tafoya signs: 1 Demuth signs: 1 Historically, my ability to predict outcomes based on Mac-Groveland neighborhood yard signs: about the same as a coin flip

Then there was the time I was invited to interview Jeff Tweedy at the Wilco loft and was pretty surprised to be there.

This is neat. Find everything that has a Wikipedia entry within a 30-minute walk of any location. www.neil-scott.com/localwiki/ Looks like I’m right where I need to be:

Oh Kenny Rogers. I have such good news. You’ve been adopted. You’re going home.

Feeling good about having Joe Burrow on my fantasy team. Not feeling as good about starting Vivek Ramaswamy at running back.

Kenny Rogers moves along to his new permanent home tonight. At our house, we’re taking a short foster break, which means someone else needs to foster Nola Lou, Static, and 12-year-old Lyle. These are dogs that need to stop looking at me like that. www.thebondbetween.org/foster/dogs

you don't know how radicalized living in Minneapolis has left you till you find yourself telling an insurance guy on the phone: "They shot Alex Pretti in the back two blocks from my house and they'll do it to you if they can. No I'll pay the extra $12 a month not to be surveilled by Geico."