I started listening to all of my Akiyoshi yesterday with the intention being to thin it out and instead now I want to complete the discography. (Of the big band. To truly have all her work would require a lot more space) #jazzsky

“Disco Stu doesn’t advertise.”

Career Army ranger and NCO on one side. Coal miner (prewar) and mechanic (postwar) with a stint in the Marines in between on the other.

Who’s an artist that you absolutely LOVE but is minor or unknown to most people? For me it’s the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. Fantastic soloists and Akiyoshi’s composing and arranging is next level. Obscure b/c they had their own label and haven’t reissued much. #jazzsky #vinylcommunity

Not the headline I would have gone with. Buildings can be safer with one stair than with two, especially if you reduce the length of the corridor and number of apartments per floor.

Seein’ me and Julio down by the schoolyard. 🎶

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Can I get a welfare check on @danielb1609.bsky.social please?

If your personal trainer ever tells you that you’re going to “do something fun”, run. As fast as you can. In the other direction.

Well, that’s certainly a take.

Older child: “can I taste your beer?” Me: [thinking: this is a very hoppy IPA] “sure” Older child: *runs for kitchen sink to spit it out*

Can confirm.

Attention Baltimore and New York friends. You can sample the wares on Bandcamp first if you need to be convinced. But you will be. femiandthefoundation.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-...

Damn it I've had another one break containment

Big Rock Candy Mountain is such a cute song, all lemonade springs and hens laying soft-boiled eggs, then at the very end he's like, "yeah also we hang capitalists up there."

Was sitting here trying to figure out what would be on my “desert island” list of 5-10 records and I can’t do it. Straight up impossible. I *might* be able to get down to 100. But it would be damn hard.

Gonna quit my job and become a dog walker and bike messenger for a living.

Remember when there was no cell service underground on DC Metro? I miss that.

US Secretary of Defense: "If you kill Americans - if you threaten Americans - anywhere in the world, we will hunt you down and we will kill you." Bad news for US Secretary of Defense and all his MAGA pals then, huh.

If the blues was money / I would be the richest man in town

These Lost Recordings releases are a bit expensive, but they’re also pretty uniformly excellent, both in musical and sound quality.

It’s a night for spinning the blues. thelostrecordings.store/en/collectio...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Josh Gibson may have been the greatest baseball player who ever lived

Urgent alert: Crooked Beat has reopened (with limited hours). Their insurance claim was denied, go throw them some cash.

If you're cold, they're cold. LET THEM IN 🧊🚲

Props to 94.7 for knowing that there is no Life Is a Highway other than the Tom Cochrane.

Things are worse than we thought. Penn State won a men’s college basketball game.

Real estate assessment went up 9% over two years. It’s almost like we should allow more housing or something.

I love this so much.

Welp. I’m committed. (10 pack of personal training sessions, to be clear.)

I feel so bad for this guy’s social media intern today. (Not, to be clear, for the Congressman himself.)

Three bike goals for this year: 1. Get back on the gravel bike period 2. Take the all-packa somewhere on a train or plane for ideally a multi-day ride 3. Get back to doing most errands on the Tern

If I ever find myself noticing the attractiveness of a teenager, my process goes like this: "oh, gross. Now if I was 16 again...I would be as awkward, clueless, and unsuccessful as I was the first time." Then I move on with my day

No #DRBC in February gives us a chance to do a west end soirée. Let’s say 6ish. DM or email me for address etc

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Just 2 days left to sell at least 11 framed pieces to have rent. So far away & such little time, I’m in full panic mode. I’ve added new work to the store & will add more. Next order over $100 gets this elephant gift set, including an original painting! Thank you so much for looking & sharing. <3

The classic rock station just played Blink-182. Not cool, corporate robot DJ. Not cool.

Oh come on. First we have weekend at Gerry’s and now we get “Alison Virginia”?

New hotness from The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis #jazzsky album.link/i/1861987393

Cue complaints about allowing development on “open space”

Definitely nothing fishy about this. Nope. Not at all.

I wonder if he’d be willing to speak when this inevitably gets to council.

A frustration from the bike lanes hearing the other night. Far more people can bike than the antis suggest. I personally have a neighbor who cannot drive but can maintain independence using his electric trike.

Commutin’

These are the kinds of stories that need to get to the people who think ICE is simply being too aggressive right now, but is generally fine

The Gerry Chandler / city council story keeps getting more complicated.

This is infrastructure I can get behind. Just bump out the corners so cars can’t drive through the crosswalk.

I’m telling you, it’s because he’s actually dead. “Out of town” sure ok yeah

Three high schoolers just got on near Bradlee. I think the BIBA handbook says I’m supposed to be afraid for my life now, correct?

Current status: literally the only person on the A25 bus leaving the pentagon. While I appreciate the personalized service I’m not sure this is terribly cost effective.