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I’ve no idea how this only has 50 views, or how I missed that this was posted finally - 2 months ago. I give the gentlest “whoo” like the crazy northwest owls to this lengthy talk about social media in the lives of John Roderick, Jonathan Coulton, Merlin Mann, Scott Simpson, and the ever classy John Hodgman. All helping people.
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Indie Rock Santa John Roderick Holiday Party Photo Booth
Part of the “Three Imaginary Girls” Imaginary Holiday Party 2012
Photo by John E. Hollingsworth
Christmas can’t come soon enough.
Santa, however…
John helps a LOT of people.
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Hotrod auf einen Bären.
With some bonus in-progress snaps.
P.S. Fur bathrobe.Jade Gordon is just the best.
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Jolly Good! John Roderick (a/k/a "Fuck Yeah John Roderick")
“Helping mortals prepare for the arrival of #Supertrain”
Subscribed.
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The Apocryphal Adventures of John Roderick. Episode 6: Johnny Scimitar
So, I guess, I’d give it a B+. (The B is for Bear.)
“The Rambler”
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Korra & Naga
Just doing some blue-sky solutioneering for Roderick on options for riding a bear-dog.
I think this really might work.
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A John Roderick Interview [Macdrifter]
I really enjoyed the John Roderick interview from the good old days of the Merlin Show.
I was totally unaware of this earlier and excellent interview series. It’s 7 parts and it’s a great snapshot of an interesting guy.
Here’s episode 1, but don’t cheat yourself. The best parts are all of them.
This is, indeed, a really terrific interview that nicely captures John’s thinking at an interesting time in his life.
I’ll second the nomination that you watch it all the way through. John’s the best, and, yes, he does help a lot of people.
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John Roderick - “Not Moving to Portland”
All your bicycles are dreaming of their brakes.
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I’m pretty sure that people who hate cities just haven’t yet confronted the fact that they are hairless pig-insects living short, striving lives among the writhing masses of their fellow swine, all of them stacked high in crudely fashioned dirt shit-heaps.
John Roderick, [viaPMC Magazine]
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In case you’d ever wondered about the time John’s pillows turned into owls, here’s an excerpt from the March 27, 2012 episode of Roderick on the Line, Ep. 26: “Go Practice the Car”.
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John Roderick on String Art Owls, Copper Pipe, and Bono’s Boss on Vimeo (The Merlin Show; Prod. Ben Durbin; 2007)
People ask about the exact origin of Roderick on the Line.
But, while the whole story of how John first ended up sleeping at our house one night in 2002 has never been told in the exhaustive detail it deserves, I can tell you that this 5-year-old video captures the first time I officially interviewed John as an actual thing.
I like it a lot, and the unintentional genesis of Roderick on the Line is clearly in there.
Alongside John’s 2011 interview for Back to Work, you’ll definitely get the feel for why we thought chatting each week might be a useful way for John to help many, many people.
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Some albums you can listen to while you’re having sex and some albums you can’t (I’m looking at you, John Vanderslice). Some music makes you want to drive in the desert, some makes you want to sit and cry in the rain. I’d be willing to bet that most music writers listened to Elliott Smith’s Either/Or more times this year than they did to Kanye West. The more obsessed we are with awards and lists—the further we get from truly appreciating things—the less we’re really living.
John Roderick, “Top 10 Reasons I Hate Year-End Top-10 Lists” [via]
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Exactly 2 years ago today I was in Egypt, feeding the camels*.
(I worry I watched that corner of the video a little too intently.)Half my immediate family is there right now. In solidarity (or, maybe, really because I was feeling a little better and the band of my sister’s sister’s-in-law was playing a gig there and I was looking for a surrogate family feeling), yesterday I hung out in the Egyptian exhibit’s “contemporary Egyptian living room” which was basically a statistical average of every living room I’ve ever been in where Arabic was spoken. It’s spot-on homey.
I had heard another song about the week between in an ad the other day, but it is relatively terrible.
(*…not a euphemism.)
(via donschaffner)
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A Lovely Holiday Message from the Dominican Brother With Whom John Argues On Twitter
rotl:
@johnroderick @hotdogsladies Merry Christmas guys!
— Br Gabriel Mosher OP (@lukei4655) December 26, 2012Can’t wait to hang with Br. Gabe.
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