I’m grateful for my Big Book Study Group. I’m grateful to let fear ebb away. I’m grateful for reminders of where the path is. I’m grateful for always seeing something new. I’m grateful for the things that were supposed to happen. I’m grateful for peace and love in my heart. I’m grateful to be sober today.
As many of you know, childhood idol and all-around cool guy Kareem Abdul-Jabbar1 occupies space here at Substack and some extra in my head and now he has a roommate:
I’m a big Wilco fan and saw them do Yankee Hotel Foxtrot here in NYC a few months ago. Awesome is a word that comes to mind. Seriously, give me another example of a band doing a nearly-perfect studio album and then going out 20 years later and performing the album live and doing it meticulously and perfectly. I’ll wait.2 For some reason, I feel like Jeff Tweedy would not get get the Wang Chung question wrong in the Alcoholic Lightning Round. 3
Hopefully, you’ve been spending your free time this week listening to Episode 18 of Breakfast with an Alcoholic. When I think about my “breakfast” with Matt, words like “captivating,” “scintillating” even “breath-taking,” pop into my head.4
The Liner Notes for Episode 18 will be out tomorrow and you can take that to the bank. What happens there, I’m not so sure about, but feel free to let me know.
Thanks for Letting Me Share
I’m guessing those six (6) subscriptions I’ve generated may be his very best subscribers. “No need to thank me, he says sadly and pre-emptively.”
Am I being obvious yet?
The question is how do we make this happen? Speaking for all of us, I think it would be a really cool thing, but it’s definitely going to be in the “takes a village” category of tasks. No, it’s not too early to start thinking about what you could do to help.
Really, you want to do the hyphen thing today?