good. I hope they suffer. my city has been devastated by your illegal tariffs on steel, so I'm having a hard time mustering sympathy for your wine industry. end the tariffs. stop threatening us and our NATO allies. until then: go fuck yourself.

This is confirmed. The sax player for this band toured with Albert King and was friends with Joe Zawinul. He and the drummer are in a different band together with a bass player who was with Spyro Gyra and Rippingtons. Serious business. It's a privilege to do this, I can't wait to put it on stage.

we have also done the van-follows-the-band-who-has-a-bus tour, and it was across Canada and the drives were truly punishing

I'm about the same age as Darnielle and I lived this song in 1992 (except it wasn't Candlebox it was Indigo Girls and we didn't have a bus, just an old Toyota van with a 4-cylinder engine) and almost did it again in 1995 with a different band. @themountaingoats.bsky.social

New friend on the back patio. (If anyone has a good guess as to species lmk. Santa Fe NM)

Still have to confirm with all the parties but I landed a show in October for my saxophone trio playing Thelonious Monk tunes. This is such a cool project, I'm glad it gets to go in front of people.

As the tensions on the shrinking Colorado River rise (as the river flows fall), a reminder of how we address #water rights issues.

I'm playing in this country-rock band and we added the Ella Langley "Choosin' Texas" song and it only just today occurred to me that this song is the same universe as George Strait "All My Exes Live In Texas" and while that one is not in the song list now I think we have to play them back to back.

@belledejour.bsky.social I ran across this and figured you needed to know about it bsky.app/profile/leci...

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

Portalfest! Santa Fe! Saturday! 40 bands on 5 stages! Probably the last Portalfest ever! You should go. www.instagram.com/santafeporta...

Hey NM folks, if you have a science degree and want to hack on climate change stuff, a couple of jobs at different levels: careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E... and careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...

I am really excited about this project with a saxophone trio playing the works of Thelonious Monk. It started as a practice exercise but it's turning out to be musical, engaging, even danceable maybe. We're going to try to put it on stage in public after Labor Day sometime.

I would play the hell out of this. I can absolutely picture rolling up on a country gig to lay down some Hank Williams, a blues show, a jazz quartet. Oh yeah. Unfortunately I can't find one for sale. There was one on Reverb for about $1000 which seems steep.

Me last night

If you're in Albuquerque tonight I'm playing 3 sets of good ol' country and rock'n'roll acoustic duo with my friend Pat Reyes at the Sheraton Uptown 6-9. A lot of joy in this kind of show, and Pat's been away for like a year so it's a nice welcome back.

where the towels are oh so fluffy.

I reman impressed that this is such a slow moving and easily observed disaster and that everyone stood by and let it happen. I'm sure there are studies of why this kind of inaction occurs.

Hi @darthbluesky.bsky.social could you say something nice about my friends Dog Rescue RPG kickstarter? www.kickstarter.com/projects/som...

The @beehiiv.com MCP has been live for ~3 months

So Discover got bought by Capital One. I got a modal dialog to set up my new, transferred account. The button in the modal doesn't work in Firefox. My cold bitter QA heart despairs.

I grew up in Georgia where I have strong memories of the guy who played 'Cooter' on the Dukes of Hazzard TV show running against a guy in congress named Newt with TV ads featuring a bloodhound in various Georgia locations and the tagline "Where's Newt?" He almost won.

would ya look at that then

BRB making a saxophone trio arrangement for "Choosin' Texas"

The highlight of a fantastic record

I shared this with my old-guy rock'n'roll band. Our main poster/flyer dude is addicted to Photoshop but everyone was behind this take.

Hi, it was my job today to make this.

I liked these but mostly I remember getting them in Germany or Austria where there is no translation for what this is and it was called Äppel Pei

USENET. Blog comments. Early Twitter. And a big shout out to pre-acquisition OKCupid circa 2011, that place was amazing.

After years of blissful silence the Agile Alliance has sneakily (and probably illegally) added me back to their mail list. Not only are they now part of Project Management Institute (ptui) but they're selling sketchy ads in their newsletters. Janky af.

My rock'n'roll band is playing a house party tomorrow. Y'all can come if you want to.

Lone Piñon’s Fight to Save New Mexico’s Local Sounds From Extinction. The Albuquerque band are bringing the interconnected traditions of New Mexicans to a new generation of listeners.

I had to explain phone number portability to someone the other day. They had the concept of dialing but the idea that you got a new phone number when you moved was shocking.

Utah developers licking their chops. They've been chipping away at BLM and NPS since Bush II. suwa.org/suwa-stateme...

If you go down to Hammond You'll never come back In my opinion you're On the wrong track We'll always love you but That's not the point

NM revenue increases $850M due to Iran war, state economist estimates Funding windfall will benefit Medicaid, universal childcare and behavioral health trust funds in New Mexico sourcenm.com/2026/06/04/n...

@beehiiv.com just whooshed by the 70 billion (billion with a 'b') emails sent since the company was founded.

it's obvious now you mention it tbh

Another local hero of mine. I knew people who played in his band, long ago.

OK now I wonder: who does Flea get to play bass?

Hi @darthbluesky.bsky.social would you have everyone say "Happy Birthday Sassy"? She turns 17 years old tomorrow.

I know a bunch of newsletter folks follow me, if you're on Ghost you need to update to the latest www.securityweek.com/ghost-cms-vu...

All the musicians I know have business cards.

Oh hey I sat in for a tune with a band called Squirrelhead yesterday. Oye Como Va. That was fun

Aw damn. I was just listening to some of the stuff he did with Monk. A colossus indeed.

@weirdguita.rs here's your next few posts sorted: www.burlsart.com

This is the most Sante Fe-est skeet ever.

Yay my friend Pat Reyes is back in town and we're going to jam some today. Pat is the one with whom I used to play the lobby of the Albuquerque Sheraton hotel, and that one time on the round stage behind the bar at Route 66 Casino that rises up behind the TVs like Spinal Tap. Peak experiences there

Left college age 20 and decided to try to play bass for a living because the future looked impossible. Quit music and started at the very bottom of software development age 32 because the future looked impossible.

I heard Sun Ra and the Arkestra once. Was a memorable show! It was at a pizza joint in Atlanta called The Excelsior Mill. That later became a well known nightclub called Masquerade.