I got a great new cover image if anyone feels like reissuing There’s a Riot Goin’ On anytime soon. When it comes to our biggest American threats, the call is coming from inside the house.

EVERYTHING’S HAPPENING IN MILTON: Just a week after our Thin Lizzy covers show / Halloween costume party (this Saturday!) a good friend is putting on this super rad theater piece at the Art Academy of Milton. Let’s make it a full house. It’s the biggest thing to hit Milton since Chef Boyardee!

Early hours for the NO KINGS demonstration in little Bloomsburg, PA. It’s a big crowd on a beautiful day. The headcount here looks like enough to get anyone elected on the local level. County, State and National levels next.

Came across this TG Sheppard LP today and remembered that Motown ran a country label in the mid 70s. Every release was horrendous. The talent included a pre-metal Pat Boone. Closest thing to a hit was a joke song that thinks parakeet is a euphemism. Laugh tracks throughout. Why Berry Gordy, why?

GOT A NEW SECTION AT THE STORE FOR THESE HARD TIMES: Good records under ten bucks. You got your yacht rock and your Carpenters, your Motown and your 60s am pop. Saturday Night Fever and always Catch Bull at Four. LPs you should want that are still cheap. Get ‘em before they go the way of Rumours.

THE SOUNDTRACK THEY SHOULD’VE USED #2: Sure I get why the Saltburn lady went with Charli XCX for the oh-so-sexy new Margot Robbie Wuthering Heights. The yutes must be courted. But for real, there exists a 1979 disco opera of WH by Ferrara. If nobody dances naked to this by film’s end, I quit.

THE SOUNDTRACK THEY SHOULD’VE USED #1: Edgar Wright usually has impeccable needle drop taste, but the trailer for The Running Man is a missed opportunity. Why choose a poochied-up Sly Stone remix when Al Stewart was right there?!?

Unhinged literary opinion: I’m more than half convinced Freida McFadden is AI, not a real person.

NONA ABIDES: This cat is nearly 20 years old. If she were a human she’d be around 95. She’s had a rough year, but is still purring away.

Thinking about something like this for stickers, pins, etc. It’s time to use the man’s butt rock tools against him.

COME TO OUR HALLOWEEN PARTY: I’m going as Thin Lizzy this Halloween. The whole Jailbreak LP live at a costume party in Milton. I hope to see you there!

There may be better songs than Idris Muhammad’s “Could Heaven Ever Be Like This,” but recently I can’t think of many. This song is so long that I can get there and back from my local movie theater on one play. Really, heaven. Underrated disco. Still a lot of good stuff to mine in that vein.

At the Campus Theatre for one of my favorite spooky flicks, the Shirley Jackson adaptation The Haunting. Julie Harris! Claire Bloom!

You know the reason why the US just bailed out Argentina, right? A lot of these guys currently in charge know they’re gonna need a place to flee when the dust settles, and their just looking at the historical precedent. That’s why they’re so mad Brazil won’t play ball.

THURSDAY NIGHT: The new BTE play goes into previews. It’s the 39 Steps, adapted from the 1935 Hitchcock film. I sound designed, and sourced 95% of cues from the 1930s. Come see it! It’s funny! Here’s Emily holding the poster.

Goats, see. At the Bloomsburg Fair.

UNCLAIMED GENIUS MARKETING IDEA #237: Why has nobody ever licensed AC/DC’s “If You Want Blood” for a menstrual product campaign?

Well it looks like we got Jimmy Kimmel back. Next step our CDC, our vaccines, our public school system, our Medicaid, our food stamps program, our independent and regulated stable banking system, our free trade, and our democracy and freedom from royalist tyranny. One step at a time.

Gonna have a hard time disobeying this sign at Nescopeck state park.

TRUE STORY: I love love love Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but don’t care that much for The Sting. Redford could be an inscrutable cypher—he has a hard time letting the audience in, but he still put in more than a fair share of great performances in good to great movies. Right up to the end.

Rest in LPeace Robert Redford

I met the Scranton mayor last year, she’s awesome and the perfect person to stomp out our current Rep’s should-be-illegal inside trading stock deals. Throw out the crooks, NEPA.

I just spent 6 hours today at the Film Forum watching the best documentary of the moment, year, century, what have you got. My Undesirable Friends is powerful stuff, a historical record of recent Russian history that feels like visit from Dickens’ future ghost to us in the US.

Solidly in a new age of imperialism where “great” powers are carving up other countries’ territory, with an ascendent fake currency invented it seems to get around all the safeguards stopping another great depression. My $ says we’re lucky if we make it to ‘29 before a crash. But hey, no more woke.

I’ve been saying it since 2016, but I still think SNL would kill if they did a skit where Putin sings George Michael’s “Father Figure” to Trump. “Put your tiny hand in mine” indeed.

MUSICAL CRIMES: This article about Sean Kingston scamming people for TVs by promising his good buddy Justin Bieber would become the retailer’s pitchman is pretty wild. Has anyone I know ever seen a 232 inch TV? I haven’t. Just get a projector bro. Either way I doubt the TV was worth 3 1/2 years

THE INTERNET IS OVER PART 5,000: If you google the totally awesome Thin Lizzy song “Diddy Levine,” which I just posted a video of the CRAS covering, literally every single sentence spit out by the AI overview is factually incorrect. What’s the point if nothing on the internet is reliable?

THIN LIZZY DEEP CUTS: Really, playing Thin Lizzy for the next Classic Rock Appreciation Show is half just an excuse to get to cover “Diddy Levine” with a band. I love this song, it’s from the first Thin Lizzy LP, there’s no live versions by Thin Lizzy anywhere, almost nobody knows it. But now I do!

This new Subway spokesperson is so much better than Jared

Growing up in the nineties and living through now feels a lot like existing inside one of those horror movies whose first reel has teen sex comedy vibes. Somehow I became a character who didn’t understand what movie he was in. I came for Empire Records and ended up in Empire Strikes Back.

We are one week out from the debut of The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic Volume II. I’m so proud of this beautiful book and all the hard work and determination represented by the design in these pages. store.abramsbooks.com/products/the...

Why did MGK believe coolness was ever an option? Coolness was never on the table, NYTimes.

Weapons is a really good movie. It’s just about as much looney fun as something like Malignant, but put together with a great deal more care and skill, and with an inspired cast. I liked Barbarian okay but thought it fizzled rather than popped at the end, but this one is where it’s at.

I made a Garfield worthy lasagna last night. Which is what I’m having tonight and probably most of this week. Ah, leftovers.

Now that Jo-Ann’s went the way of the dodo, one of you needs to open a new fabric and craft store named SEW WHAT. Make my retail name dreams come true

I was on the news tonight talking about those Sig Sauer guns that apparently occasionally go off by themselves. And they say guns don’t kill people! Our local PD was carrying them, but is no longer. There’re still a number of local forces using ‘em though. If the army shelved them, so should you.

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the internet as a useful medium and tool is over. Any worthwhile future is going to have to be constructed outside of it. It’s not for people anymore.

That pitbull gofundme post I keep seeing in the discover tab is totally a scam. Report it if you see it. People really need to just get a real job.

Tomorrow is your last chance to see BTE’s production of Sideways Stories from Wayside School. There’s a part in it where the yard teacher Louis is possessed and forced to disco. The script said maybe use “Stayin’ Alive.” I said how about “Sci Fi Boogie” by french weirdos Rockets? You judge.

THIN LIZZY IN THE ONLY TOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA: So we’re still working up the next Classic Rock Appreciation Society show, which will be a performance of Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak LP plus other favorites. Probably coming to Brewski’s in Aug, and if you wanna book us, lemme know. I could play it forever.

The forthcoming Mint Mile LP is called andwhichstray. It will be out later this year. A sample track from the record. "This 'n' That," is available everywhere today. mintmile.bandcamp.com/album/this-n...

ENDLESS RECORDS IN THE NEWS: I was on WNEP talking about Ozzy. They didn’t feature that time we covered the whole Paranoid LP at the store. I dressed up like the Grim Reaper, but then couldn’t see my guitar well enough through the mask to play, so I unhooded after the title song. Fairies Wear Boots!

I hear the DOJ is in the process of un-hidey-holing Ghislaine Maxwell so she can be paraded in front of cameras and read a statement exonerating Trump. It’s funny because in the USSR, forced confessions were used to convict, not exonerate. And they say history repeats. Forget it, Jake.

Last week for the BTE summer show. There’s an ad in today’s paper. It’s a shame it uses a photo from the decade ago run and doesn’t take the opportunity to show off the rad costumes in this new one. You can still see ‘em in person, though. Through July 27th

The worst alibi: This local guy who killed his wife, and carted her body around for three days before dumping her, locked in a trunk, off an embankment, claims he threw her there because “he remembered that she wanted to be buried there.” His first wife died mysteriously too, time to reopen the case

TOMORROW: I’m playing some surf rock at the luau at the Wesley UMC on Market St. Here’re the showtimes for the musical entertainment, we’re scheduled to go on at 3 PM. Half the surf tunes from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack? I’m doing it! That one that sounds like Twilight Zone but isn’t? Believe it!

You don’t need a new Epstein list, we already have flight logs and all the other shit that’s been public forever. You know who his buddies were. Shun them all. I’m all for MAGA land finally reading the news, but all these journos pretending DT’s association is new info is infuriating. Late/lame.

As of today, I’ve been married to this beautiful lady for 21 years. This is a photo of her the year we got hitched. I’m specifying that because she looks the same in 2025. Me, on the other hand, I went and lost all my hair in the past two decades. Here’s to another 21!

This is today in Bloomsburg, I’m going.