Skipped yesterday because my rental car was stolen, both the rental company and the cops handled it altogether irresponsibly and in ways that are getting me jacked up for a ton of BS fees that amount to 41x the rental charge, so I spent the day dealing with all that and getting my ducks in a row. In the spirit of all this nonsense, here's today's song (below).

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