Made it to 44 with grandparents. I lost my grandmother last week. She lived to just past her 103rd birthday. I was honored to give her eulogy (the first time I've done this). Researching it through many phone calls and then writing it all out was probably the best way I could have mourned her.

I've entered my ~twice-annual obsessed with Vulfpeck phase. They're all so damn musical. This usually lasts a week or two.

My son carrying the family tradition of doing the old well actually and producing a countetrxample to a bad question on the fifth grade math test.

The fact that android has no built in way to open a plain text file is a failure

Playing classic rock songs on guitar, but finger style in 7/4 time is very entertaining

Picked this up because it was ECM + French horn + cheap. It's really unique. The A side in particular is fantastic. Also love that the cover looks like a forgotten yo la Tengo album. John Clark - Faces tidal.com/browse/album...

For the first time ever, played a "kid on bass, me on guitar" jam with my son. That was kinda magical.

I hope my wife buys me a $60,000 car without me knowing about it for Christmas

I clicked the video for Metheny, but the piano solo 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_-...

Brought my kid to a kid's jazz jam session (Cool School at Cafe Coda) led by a guy who's played with Miles Davis before this weekend. Such a cool experience to see this guy teach a bunch of kids a side of music they don't necessarily see in school or regular lessons.

Just catching up on the days news. What the actual fuck?

Colors in the sky

5yo singing Herbie Hancock's Chameleon as he's winding down in bed. It's stuck in his head because 10yo has been playing it on the piano all evening. Parenting win.

Sun Reis Project playing at Audio for the Arts

Early bus doesn't make sense. Actually going to miss the bus because of this.

Design consultants were 5 and 10yo. One of these is scary (or at least very annoying) to parents.

The Bad Plus

From an animal welfare point of view, the dairy industry feels more sinister than the beef industry.

I've been listening to @marcmaron.bsky.social's podcast for at least 12 years. Bye imaginary friend! I'll miss you!

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

I wasn't nervous about going to Chicago until the government decided to pretend there was a problem to be solved on Chicago. The fact that I'm considering bringing passports just in case is not a symptom of a healthy nation.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

My wife thinks is sooo funny that my g string keeps binding because my nut is a little busted.

Another example of the real problem being that people like Cruz live in an alternate reality bubble. Pretty much anyone accusing orgs like Wikipedia, NPR, or PBS of liberal bias is really just showing they don't live in the objective reality.

Starting to think that even if the files get released and despite the horrifying reality they expose, truth and facts in this age have been so corrupted that it won’t even matter, feel like we’ve already crossed a terrifying threshold we can never come back from.

This is great. It'd have been so cool to see this iteration of this group play. Music and silliness? Yes please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gdw...

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

What can we do?

Hiromi's Sonicwonder. She played a solo piano piece (seemingly Keith Jarrett style improvised) that was probably the most mind-blowing piano playing I've ever witnessed.

#KavanughStop bsky.app/profile/anja...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

A civil war and a world war? In this economy?

If we impeached Nixon... (I promise I was at a full stop when I took this)

Traffic lights are car infrastructure.

Ok now I've driven my family crazy by spending all day learning to play this on guitar.

This is a great performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWjG...

This album is really great. tidal.com/browse/album...

Time for the daily debate with 5yo about whether "Getting Better" was written by the Beatles or the Cat in the Hat.

Bumble

Pollinator frenzy

I still think he thinks that asylum seekers are shopping around for a new asylum in which to reside

Nothing like figuring out the bug that's been stumping you for a couple days 15 minutes before the weekend starts.

They're not being installed in parking spaces. They're being installed in space on the street.

Kinda Pythagorean triple day today

John Medeski, Todd Clouser & Jorge Servin. This was very good.

30 minute improvisational jam (piano/guitar) with the 10 yo just made my weekend.

Homeownership: discovering the previous owners constructed part of the bathroom out of cardboard to save $8 in their remodel.

Computer madness