Erik Ritland

I rarely actually laugh out loud at a tweet, but here we are...

Aww. Totes adorbs.

Now that I have a blue checkmark, that means I'm better than everyone else, right? That's how this works?

Band name idea: Muskrat Cabal.

Not useful.

@DisquietPessoa @jaycaspiankang 💯

@jaycaspiankang There is nothing beautiful about the plastic city of Vegas

Las Vegas is a beautiful city with the best Asian food in America outside of LA and has gambling. Sorry it doesn’t have some stupid tower and a bunch of mid restaurants with little chairs outside for tourists to sit and go ‘ahhh culture.’ (Except it does at the Paris casino)

If I was Josh Allen when Patrick Mahomes started complaining about the refs at the end-of-game handshake, I would have said, "Dude, we would have beat you anyway, y'all aren't that good this year." Mahomes/Andy Reid acted like clowns after that game. And they're dead wrong.

@DisquietPessoa @IonaItalia

@IonaItalia I mean Mark Levin's an American exceptionalist fascist what else can we expect from him..

This kind of hateful rhetoric undermines Israel's just cause. And it's deeply inhumane.

@Zimmy_TB My favorite song of all time.

Apparently I listened to nearly 16 hours of Murder Most Foul this year lol

Spotify Wrapped reminding me, like always, that everyone has terrible taste in music except for me.

I don't listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving because I don't let department stores dictate how I live my life.

@TheBandPodcast Also, like I said, Robbie receives way more hate on Band groups on FB. It isn't particularly close.

My favourite bizarre comment of the day. I'm going to start a thread of these.

@TheBandPodcast Your post of "Atlantic City" had 7.1k likes and 229 comments that were 99% positive. It took me to get down to like the 100th comment before there was one negative one. Which I thought you deleted? Around 25% of people will be assholes. No reason to give them any attention.

I won't take Snoop Dogg seriously about anything he says until he goes back to being Snoop Lion.

@TheBandPodcast The double comma instead of periods is a nice touch too lol

@HumbugBugbear A few of these idiotic and completely non factual comments a day.

One of my favourite things is when I post a clip of The Band during the 1990s and the dozens of annoying "wHeRe'S RObBiE" comments, outraged I'd ever post a clip but naturally never mention Richard Manuel not being present. Pretty pathetic.

@TheBandPodcast The Levon Helms band, lol

@TheBandPodcast Amen, brother.

@HumbugBugbear That's the overarching message - people need to stop being dicks

@TheBandPodcast I'm actually kind of curious. Because all I ever saw on FB was virulent, unnecessary anti-Robbie hate everywhere. But it wouldn't surprise me to find out that everyone's an asshole lol.

@HumbugBugbear I delete them. Its not an exaggeration. If you want receipts I can pull them.

@wil_da_beast630 "Cope" is a magic phrase that denigrates an opinion and stops conversation without any real argument. Everything you say, Wilfred, is cope. And this post of mine is also cope. We all lose this way. It's the modern version of Chesterton's old 'thought that stops all thought.'

The two most obvious, outside-the-box answers are: 1.) God is not...real 2.) God is not perfectly good All else is cope, often brilliant.

@TheBandPodcast In fact, on your two most recent posts of 90s Band, all the comments are positive. I'm guessing it's a different animal on Facebook though. The "dozens" number I find hard to believe, though I'm guessing you were exaggerating for effect, which is fine.

@TheBandPodcast As an outside observer whose favorite Band member is Richard, it's clear to me that anti-Robbie people are way more annoying than pro-Robbie people, and it isn't particularly close.