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of all the times he’s claimed “it’s like nothing anybody’s seen before”, whaddya know, this time it’s true! Oil and gas crisis from Iran war worse than 1973, 1979 and 2022 together, says IEA
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I finished the book How to Kill a Witch by Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell. a quick, interesting read for women’s history month 📚
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-12T07:02:57-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/03/12/i-finished-the-book-how/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/02/28/213618/", "content_html": "Le Tigre, TKO 🎵
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-28T22:36:18-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/02/28/213618/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/02/20/ive-shared-this-before-but/", "content_html": "read about it at your Barnes & Noble
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I’ve shared this before, but since it’s the best performance of the best rock song ever made, a repeat should be okay. Wussy, Teenage Wasteland 🎵
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-20T23:00:42-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/02/20/ive-shared-this-before-but/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/02/14/screaming-females-garbage-because-the/", "content_html": "Screaming Females & Garbage, Because the Night 🎵
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T23:11:46-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/02/14/screaming-females-garbage-because-the/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/02/14/i-dont-use-google-anymore/", "content_html": "I don’t use Google anymore (still liking Kagi), but I understand it remains popular, so here’s a tip on how to make the Guardian your go-to news source in Google search
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T11:00:27-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/02/14/i-dont-use-google-anymore/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/02/07/the-volts-podcast-is-normally/", "content_html": "the Volts podcast is normally about clean energy topics, but this episode with Michael Hobbes about “reactionary centrism” was fantastic. clear-eyed analysis of media and punditry trends that explains a lot about [gestures] …all of this
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-07T16:37:12-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/02/07/the-volts-podcast-is-normally/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/01/31/this-would-be-a-great/", "content_html": "this would be a great live performance by Annabelle Chairlegs of their new single Concrete Trees even if she wasn’t wearing the not-yet-released top-secret new Austin FC 2026 away jersey
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-31T22:26:14-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/01/31/this-would-be-a-great/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/01/30/amazing-ratm-cover-by-brass/", "content_html": "amazing RATM cover by Brass Against, Killing in the Name
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-31T00:02:53-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/01/30/amazing-ratm-cover-by-brass/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/01/30/stunning-podcast-from-the-guardian/", "content_html": "stunning podcast from The Guardian, Minneapolis citizens on protecting their neighbours from ICE. our own government is (still! after two murders!) terrorizing its own people
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-30T09:48:54-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/01/30/stunning-podcast-from-the-guardian/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/01/29/enough-is-enough-im-not/", "content_html": "enough is enough. I’m not going to work tomorrow nationalshutdown.org
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T19:19:04-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/01/29/enough-is-enough-im-not/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/01/16/the-cranberries-zombie-live-in/", "content_html": "The Cranberries, Zombie, live in 1999 🎵
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-16T21:57:59-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/01/16/the-cranberries-zombie-live-in/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/01/10/220931/", "content_html": "Another mother’s breakin'\nHeart is takin' over\nWhen the violence causes silence\nWe must be mistaken
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Florence + the Machine, Free 🎵
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T23:09:31-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2026/01/10/220931/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2026/01/02/hi-there-after-reading-bill/", "content_html": "Is this how it is?\nIs this how it’s always been?\nTo exist in the face of suffering and death\nAnd somehow still keep singing?
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hi, there! after reading Bill McKibben’s Here Comes the Sun last year, I’ve become a clean-energy zealot. I’ve been learning a lot about it; it’s an area with fantastic potential & massive innovation… there’s so much good news (& bad; thanks Tr*mp) that I’ve started a new blog: Solar Noon
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\n\nthe 80s contained multitudes
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-31T23:31:21-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/12/31/223121/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/12/31/happy-new-year/", "content_html": "happy new year
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"date_published": "2025-12-31T22:32:51-05:00",
"url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/12/31/happy-new-year/"
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"id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/12/28/birthday-cheers-big-brother/",
"content_html": "birthday cheers, big brother 🍻
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"date_published": "2025-12-28T19:21:25-05:00",
"url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/12/28/birthday-cheers-big-brother/"
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"id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/12/23/really-love-that-the-platform/",
"content_html": "really love that the platform selling tickets (sorry, allowing applications to maybe, if I’m lucky, possibly buy tickets) to the most expensive event I’ll ever attend in my life is a janky piece of web garbage that doesn’t even work #WorldCup26 ⚽️\n
World Party, Way Down Now, live on Letterman 🎵
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-13T21:56:09-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/12/13/world-party-way-down-now/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/12/06/possibly-the-best-tiny-desk/", "content_html": "possibly the best Tiny Desk concert that NPR has ever had: Diet Cig in 2017. three songs, less than ten minutes, a masterpiece of pure, joyful, & fabulous indie pop-punk 🎵
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-06T22:48:49-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/12/06/possibly-the-best-tiny-desk/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/12/05/russel-taine-jr-blind-take/", "content_html": "Russel Taine Jr., Blind (take 1 live):
\n\nsolid jam from a friend’s band’s new EP, out today & available on Bandcamp 🎵
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-05T21:57:55-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/12/05/russel-taine-jr-blind-take/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/11/28/neko-case-this-tornado-loves/", "content_html": "Neko Case, This Tornado Loves You, live on Letterman in 2009 🎵
\n\nthis sounded even better when she sang it at The Paramount this past Tuesday
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-28T22:31:45-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/11/28/neko-case-this-tornado-loves/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/11/26/alexandra-petri-sometimes-i-wish/", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-11-26T17:07:54-05:00", "url": "https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/11/26/alexandra-petri-sometimes-i-wish/" }, { "id": "http://chrisgrayson.micro.blog/2025/11/25/we-still-get-some-catalog/", "content_html": "Sometimes I wish I did not know the difference between correlation and causation. I think I would be happier. I would certainly have a lot more suggestions for solving problems. I could tell people, with a straight face, to wear suits to the airport to usher back in a golden age
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we still get some catalog junk mail, but it’s a lot less since I’ve gotten consistent about canceling them with CatalogChoice
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