Hey! This beauty came out today: threegrebes.bandcamp.com/album/syrinx

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Hello! I have three shows this weekend to celebrate the new-ish album and new EP by Three Grebes. Chicago Thursday (elasticarts.org/events/impro...) Rock Island Friday (bethtuba.com/upcoming-eve...) Kalamazoo Saturday (www.etix.com/ticket/p/413...) Music here! threegrebes.bandcamp.com

Becoming a New Englander was about drinking iced coffee year round, but becoming a Midwesterner has been about the gradual lowering of my "I don't need to put on a coat just for THAT" threshold.

My first time hearing Driver's License, and it's on a bus tour in Iceland

New album just released by my dear weird band, Three Grebes! Recorded by @puzmi.bsky.social. SO grateful to be on this strange musical trip with @iketurnerkzoo.bsky.social and Franki. threegrebes.bandcamp.com/album/you-di...

Search "concert" and post the oldest pic on your camera roll Feb 2003, I think this is All-State Band

Losing my mind watching these two Europeans dressed up in "American core" on the Museum Campus today. One is in a crisp white ballcap, reflective wraparound sunglasses, designer sweatpants, and an American flag scarf.

Love to walk back into a room and discover a reorganizing effort I'd only half-finished

Leor READING MY MIND when I'm biking in this morning

Some things you don’t need to tell the rest of the world about. Burdens we must carry alone

"Linux penguin sticker on a five-string bass"

Quitting my job to pursue my true calling and talent -- winning seltzer in social media contests

It is deeply unrealistic to expect me to work when the weather is like this

Excited for everyone here to experience DC-area living this week.

I love the Air and Water Show, in that it feels good to bond with others over how much we hate the Air and Water Show

Holy cow, did not expect to see someone wearing a @sleepbaseball.bsky.social shirt at the National Gallery of Art. #goodtaste

Can't believe an exhibit in the year 2024 is still describing two same-gendered artists as "intimate friends"

Went to some art shows this afternoon and saw my friend play a drone set

What kind of training data is it going to take for Google Maps to stop suggesting bike routes that are just like, "Take this alley for 4 blocks and then turn left onto Fullerton with no light"??

Couldn't care a bit about baseball, but love to get invested in these teams

Nothing will top this classic tho

Trevor Shelley de Brauw, a Real Chicago Guy, of the band Pelican and others writes about the too short life and unbelievably prolific work of Steve Albini, a Real Chicago Guy; seeing Shellac; recording in his studio; and trying to live an ethical punk life. www.welcometohellworld.com/how-to-live-...

Tired: "Silence is quiet and uncomfortable" Wired: "Silence is loud and uncomfortable"

Good morning to the ruby-crowned kinglets hopping around in the tree outside my office window -- I hope nobody needs me to do actual work today?

Well, this is bonkers

I haven’t posted on the other site since last year but I have yet to fully commit to deleting my account when I open it and see wild stuff like this

"It sounds like a name you'd invent when giving a flimsy excuse. 'Oh, I can't go to your thing, I'm going to the, uh,... Auditorium... umm... Theatre?" -Mitski, roasting the venue so hard that now I will never forget its name

I'm only now coming out of the work week's fugue state, and just remembered when my coworker said he and another got "lost in the sauce" of sprint planning

I know I'm old for saying this, but: did you know streaming TV now has... channels with scheduled programming? We reinvented cable? I'm not even hating on it -- now I get to rewatch Twin Peaks the Return in the same way I watched The Sopranos: in completely random episode order

"Is your depression spiking and your body's feeling borked, or have you just not used your standing desk in, like, a month?"

Some news, as they say… we have a fucking bill to #makestreamingpay! weareumaw.org/make-streami...

I think I forgot to post that Edition Redux is going on tour next week. See you at the gig, southeast/midwest US? Starting 2/19: Mon: Indy Tue: Lexington KY Wed: Knoxville TN Thu: Columbia SC Fri: RDU Sat: DC Sun: Cville VA Mon: Penn State Tue: Cleveland (...Wed Thu...) Fri: Chicago

See you at the Ted Leo show

One of the downstream problems of climate change is that none of my peers want to have kids -- which means I don't get to be anyone's eccentric city-dwelling aunt [not blood relative, unclear why we call her aunt?] who has lots of art hobbies and nobody is clear on what she does for work

Just remembering the dude at a show **in 2024** who took out his **flip phone** and took a photo of the band from at least 100ft away. @marykgo.bsky.social, I do regret not asking him for a copy of that pic

Thanks to my bandmate's dumb reference, I'm down a Mark E. Smith rabbit hole... I say this with all the love for both bands, but: Von Sudenfed is the band LCD Soundsystem wishes it was

I love when the temperatures get back up in the double digits Fahrenheit and it's like, "Should we... have a picnic??"

Landlords really do wait until -9°F to send a text like "IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR HVAC FILTER EVERY 3 MONTHS." As if I'm really gonna bike to Home Depot in this weather

This Chicago-themed Facebook page with 13 million followers has been posting fake, generated images of downtown scenes since about Christmas (shifting away from posting professional photos without artist permission). Among other issues, the generation process keeps spawning trains on the street.

Good morning, Chicago, and especially to the two crows I watched fight over a frozen rat pancake

Noise from upstairs neighbor: ugh, a little annoying oh well Finding out those noises are actually from their dog: so adorable LISTEN TO THOSE LIL FEETS CLIP CLOP I LOVE HIM

Some people are impressed when I say I'm an engineer for my day job. But I'd like to let you know that, right now at work, I'm buying balloons.

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

Shout out to my 21-year-old copy of Photoshop 7, which still runs great on Windows 11

"We neither care about musicians nor our employees" -Spotify

FINALLY! Just in time for the winter COVID surge, the CDC now has a useful wastewater dashboard. It indicates that nationally COVID wastewater levels are HIGH and rising further. You can access the dashboard here: cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

begging mainstream Chicago media to learn about new guys

I know we all know this but just a reminder, get ALL the free tests your household is owed, every time, even if you still have a stockpile because it’s one of the few direct tools we have to communicate to the government that WE STILL NEED FREE TESTS and there’s still high demand for COVID resources