Dragon fruit down! %&$#n Santa Ana winds.

The World Baseball Classic is the opposite of the World Cup in that it's a bunch of AFC and CONCACAF teams beating up on the rest of the World.

Hope you have a smooth #CDFriday

It’s 2026. The World Cup is in North America. The top flight league has so drastically cut its own media presence and has a fully paywalled broadcast that’s effectively made it invisible to casual soccer fans. Second tier league is openly trying to bust a union.

As a mid-century, old school, “show some respect, would ya?’ sports fan, I am absolutely pulling for the Old Guys That Got Screwed F1 Team. 🇫🇮 🇲🇽

REPORT: On Wednesday, the USL emailed all Championship players with information on procedures for crossing a potential picket line and resigning their union membership, multiple sources have confirmed to The Guardian. Details, including the attached "FAQs" pdf: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Here I am walking in a SoCal canyon regularly hoping to see deer, while others are sitting down to breakfast in northern Colorado

Upping the #SwingOutSister information here on Bluesky. 👇

What I’d give to see Sade at the Open Air Theatre today!

#TicketStubWed #MusicChallenge I do love some rock en español. Maná was first described to me as Mexican rock with Stewart Copeland-like drums. That was enough for me to purchase En Vivo when I was in Morelia in the late 90s. I could use a “Oye Mi Amor” singalong again. Perhaps in October.

“Have you seen our fantastic neon sign on Sunset Boulevard?” - Neil Tennant

Happy 303 Day Despite being a synthhead since the mid-90s I’ve never played one. Thank goodness for the ahead-of-its-time software synth, ReBirth, that made all of us ravers.

Proud uncle repost.

It’s Nick Heyward. On a Sunday!

Would you look at that. Neil Tennant reviews The Style Council’s for London show.

Visiting London and would love to take my daughter to a Premier League match on 11 April at Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, or Crystal Palace if any kind Bluesky souls have a home supporters connection.

I love that Brentford had an endless option of colors to choose from for their away kit and someone said, “what if we looked looked like Burnley, Villa, and West Ham?”

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge Electronic | Getting Away With It Saved the best for last. Back in 2019 when I met Johnny Marr after his last San Diego headline show, I told him this was the greatest single ever released. Here’s hoping it’s OBSCURE enough for the Pet Shop Boys 😉

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

Reason no. 423 why public libraries rock: DVDs for movies that aren’t available to stream, rent, or purchase. I had never seen Less Than Zero growing up in a non R-rated movie household but knew The Bangles’ video well. Slowly checking more 80s films off my list. Yes, I saw Brad Pitt in it.

SoCal spring colors on this 84° winter afternoon. #CaliforniaNativePlants

#CDFriday R&B-tinged smooth jazz from Najee released the same week as DM’s Violator in 1990. Another 25¢ library store find.

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge Rocket From the Crypt | He’s a Chef Doubling up on 🚀 because this song is rad. Released on a split Yo Gabba Gabba 7” with a Biz Markie track. Written by the YGG team, I asked Speedo/Swami if they’d ever performed it in concert. Sadly, no. Maybe next Halloween.

San Diegans for Cars and Free Parking will be happy to know that a car made it into the Wave’s Balboa Park kit launch promos.

Happy anniversary to Haircut One Hundred’s album, ‘Pelican West’. Released this week in 1982. #haircutonehundred #nickheyward #pelicanwest

The 2004 book, What's the Matter with Kansas?, by Thomas Frank, is a good read. It’s amazing how often I mutter the title, though. Never more than today.

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge Duran Duran | A View to a Kill The first Bond film I saw in a theater. I can quote so much of this movie. Written with composer John Barry, who’s also one of my recent CDFridays.

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge Public Image Ltd. | Don’t Ask Me A 1990 single released with the The Greatest Hits, So Far compilation.

As a very middle-aged music fan you’ll be surprised to hear that I only recently discovered that Tate McRae is not a male country singer.

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Rad day on the Del Mar mesa with my plant friends. #CaliforniaNativePlants

My first foray into #WeekendSingles is courtesy Swami Records’ latest from San Diego’s beloved Swami John Reis, indie slingers Mrs. Magician, and from Swami’s closet, Rocket From the Crypt’s “Pure Genius” I didn’t have. While I have ya, recommendations on London record shops for 80s singles? 🇬🇧

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge Erasure | Take a Chance on Me The radio single from their incredibly fun, 4-track ABBA-esque ep released in 1992.

And Spandau’s “Gold” was there the whole time.

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge Swing Out Sister | Breakout Hold it, Steve, wasn’t this on their debut album? Yes, but the band initially didn’t plan to include it on It’s Better to Travel. Corinne pushed for it as a pop kid that enjoyed albums with all the hits (cont.)

Expected, but dagnabbit

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge The Cure | Never Enough This is on Apple’s 1990 Alternative Hits playlist I’ve been listening to lately. Off the excellent remix compilation, Mixed Up. youtu.be/l5Cqp3pnE98?...

San Diego 🤝 Rain

#CDFriday with Kalima, Factory Records’ finest pop jazz fusion band. The artwork is very 1990. This is the 2005 expanded LTM release with two extra remixes of “Shine.”

Watching the 100th episode of @kenkramertv.com’s “About San Diego” live on @kpbssandiego.bsky.social (through my TV antenna!) and this show presents some of the most wholesome and informative content I have ever seen If you’re a San Diegian, you owe it to yourself to check it out!

Highly relevant to my Standalone Singles the past two days.

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge The Style Council | Long Hot Summer I had planned to follow-up yesterday’s entry with “Speak Like a Child”, released just 4 months after “Beat Surrender”, with Tracie Young again on backing vocals and appearing in the video. But “Long Hot Summer” just rips! (1/x)

Kill someone driving drunk and drive off? Don’t worry you can keep your job as a TRAFFIC ENGINEER. Shameful @caltrans.bsky.social timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/0...

This is a bigger story than the planned VA layoffs last year. If you're a San Diego veteran with a service-connected disability that is managed by Rx or therapy, please reach out to me.

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge The Jam | Beat Surrender Weller’s swan song was released 8 months after their final album and went to no. 1 in Dec 1982. Featuring Tracie Young on backing vocals, it was a sign of things to come. 😉 Also, “Town Called Malice” was no. 1 this week in 1982.

#TicketStubWed #MusicChallenge Filed under “shows I have no recollection of.” Were they touring anything? Who was on guitar? Bizarre that I saw them in this smallish, ~1500 capacity venue, and their last few appearances have been at the large amphitheater and arena, and sold well! #DuranDuran

After luge and skeleton, bobsleds look like Winnebagos.

#StandaloneSingles #MusicChallenge Rocket from the Crypt | Don’t Drop the Baby San Diego’s Rocket has been prolific with many, many standalone 7” singles. In fact, there are three All Systems Go comps collecting them. I snagged this 7” at their Denver 2016 show. 🚀 youtu.be/KphAFQetY0s?...