Final live show by Tennis. Good fun but disappointing setlist. For a final (ever?) live show, really needed at least something from Cape Dory and Ritual in Repeat.

@taikonaut.bsky.social again the news makes me think of you... www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is how my day is going. Blurgh. @taikonaut.bsky.social

@taikonaut.bsky.social you understand why this made me think of you yes? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@taikonaut.bsky.social you in the pub again?

@taikonaut.bsky.social @alasdairw.bsky.social heartbreaking news. Five Guys Croydon has closed down. Where are we going to prepare for an evening in Art & Craft now?

@taikonaut.bsky.social while Prey was great, I'm not so sold on this final trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDL3...

A four win night in Apex was very welcome after a pretty frustrating week of gaming.

@taikonaut.bsky.social I will be sending this via your sister tomorrow. Volume 1 is on your shelf (or wherever you decided to file it for unexplainable reasons) if you need a re-read before diving in.

Day trip to Chichester.

Really nasty in Central London this afternoon. Ugh 🤬

A very illicit picture of our afternoon! First episode of season 21. A marvelous cast, tears of laughter more than once!

Smashing drive from Isack Hadjar, I hope that RBR don't just throw him into the team with Max. Great work from Bearman too. #DutchGP

A rare second visit to a show for us. Evita with Rachel Zegler. We saw the 8th or so preview and loved it (show stop and all) but now, man it is slick and they have all stepped up a level or three. Another 80+ shows under their belts = wow.

@bighatdino.bsky.social well, there we go then.

@taikonaut.bsky.social how was the astronaut ice-cream?

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and friends doing R.E.M.’s ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ then a large selection from albums right through to Up - Daysleeper was quite a highlight.

Propaganda 2025.

Washington Monument

Starmer's motorcade has just driven past us near the White House. Can he finally do something useful today?🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

National Guard on The Mall 🤷‍♂️

Sure, there is a rock from the moon and Armstrong's space suit and the Columbia command module and lots of other awesome things but NONE of them hold a candle to the original Enterprise. 😍😍😍

Air & Space.

We the people...

The Kennedy Center...at least as it is known at the moment.

We tried to go to the Smithsonian Musuem of American History today but it was - I kid you not - on fire. wjla.com/news/local/s...

99 beers on tap, you serve yourself and each is priced by the oz. Oh dear. This seems like a something that could go very wrong.

Back in DC 👍

Five totally unplanned shows in six days. Restricted view but cheap and two of the last three available seats available tonight. We cannot possibly see any more theatre on this trip now.

Empire State

Key Lime Pie Berliner Weisse because uh 🤷‍♂️

@taikonaut.bsky.social I went back to get you a t-Shirt but they appear to be out now - presumably busting ghosts.

Queue

@taikonaut.bsky.social I ain't afraid of no...

They must have changed something in the Statue of Liberty, the climb to the crown and in particular back down was a lot more of a challenge than it was 26 years ago...

A bit of a slow start to the day but a walk across the Manhattan bridge and now a beer in the Bowery

A beyond lovely evening - finally meeting Vasu, @rightwong.bsky.social and @cocktailsandink.bsky.social - all of whom are brilliant amazing human beings. Fab to also catch up with Brendan, @justinfox23.bsky.social, Dave NP and Brian, none of whom I get to see often enough

Absolutely lovely evening meeting Kim and Scott and Vasu who I've known online for a couple of decades and catching up with other friends I don't get to see very often. Very grateful to all that were able to come out.

Uh 🤷‍♂️

Still on our no theatre NYC trip 🤔

It is a beautiful city.

Using my time well to get snap up a return ticket for climbing to the Statue of Liberty Crown on Monday morning 👍

I uh appear to be in another early morning rush queue. Jetlag is good for something I guess.

Not NYC without getting ripped off in someway right? Seems the travel cards they sell at the airport don't do the weekly cap, that's a hundred bucks down the drain between us. 🤬🤬🤬

@cocktailsandink.bsky.social new phone number in uh last few years? Not 1523 any more?

@tazary.bsky.social 👍👍🥳🥳

We had, honestly, not planned this to be a theatre trip but we have done our first ever Broadway show after getting Cabaret Rush tickets! We've been trying for Rush/Lottery tickets in London without any success for almost three years. First go here! 🤷‍♂️

Three hours queuing in Central Park looks good right now - fingers crossed - to get me free tickets to Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong’o (!), Peter Dinklage (!)Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more

@taikonaut.bsky.social had lunch in NYC with @tazary.bsky.social today! Excellent pizza and obv we talked some TV! Ted will be keen to hear your thoughts if you have cracked open that new The Penguin box set yet?

Everyone deals with jet lag in their own way. My beautiful wife stayed up till 10 and then crashed. I found a local bar with a 10.5% abv local beer. Who is to say who had the right approach? Me, I’ll I had the right approach! Goodnight all.