There’s currently a mini-rainbow over LA despite it being sunny outside. I’m getting flashbacks to the first Fare Thee Well show in 2015. RIP Bobby.

You: the truth about Phish’s New Year’s Eve gag is that it was a sophisticated yet subtle act of protest, connecting the dots between dairy production, obscure subversives who operated in Vermont a half century ago, and the excesses and cruelty of immigration enforcement. Me:

Someone at Midway Airport just paged Anastasio Garcia, and yet there wasn’t even a Phish show in town last night? A true new year’s miracle.

This is the first time a song that was not YEM and was not immediately pre-countdown has broken 20 minutes on 12/31 since….. 12/31/03 (Stash)

Another prominent New Yorker also chose a subway-themed midnight NYE gag

This was also the speculation at my first MSG shows 27 years ago, because of the mail order ticket stubs. Maybe it’ll be true this time…

Quote tweet this with an album by anyone other than Ween = automatic block

New year’s gag: Phish plays the opening chords of Party Time. As they’re going, crew members wheel a ping pong table to center stage. Then, out comes Timothee Chalamet, just in time for the band to sing the song’s first lyrics: MARTY TIME!

Try to guess the speaker: “As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity. I am terrified and horrified and shocked that anyone would mention Phish in any article related to me.”

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Happy birthday to our lord and savior James Brown youtu.be/cap6A8qJXc4?...

「ミートスティック」の時間だ、ミートスティックを隠して、ミートスティックを取り出す、時間だ。うわ、頭がショック

Motion to turn all airwaves over to the weirdos on Christmas

The ultimate triangulation: a year end playlist featuring both Kendrick and Drake

@zzyzx.bsky.social you were just on the radio (asking Trey a nerdy question about asking Trey nerdy questions)

Spent 2025 learning that collapse is cumulative, intimate, and somehow full of unexpected beauty. Music was essential this year, not as escape but as companion and survival strategy. Here are the albums that helped me stay present and keep dreaming anyway.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

The new Knives Out is way too relatable

Can you please help out a friend and follow @kaganforthepeople.bsky.social? If you'd like to know a little bit about his stances first, please see the attached article. We could use some normalcy here int the beehive state. #utpol #utah #democrats #politics www.parkrecord.com/2025/12/17/r...

I remember at one of the 2016 debates, the candidates were asked to say something they admired about each other, and Hillary said he loved his family. It was the best answer she could’ve given, yet even it was obviously false. More than anyone I’ve ever known, the guy is without redeeming qualities.

Bingo. And struggle, frustration, and even failure are *essential* parts of the creative experience.

A beautuful thread about Rob Reiner.

This is a great story, and this paragraph is an excellent description of an occasional phenomenon in great Phish sets, wherein the jams seem to be controlling the band, instead of the other way around.

It’s been fun to see northeasterners get sucked into the SML wormhole that Socalers have gotten to spend some time in. Don’t miss them if you have the chance.

Lol no way there are that many Phish fans

NYT fucks a great many things up, but they did make the wordle GRAVY on the anniversary of the week in which Jennifer Dances was a song that Phish would play live

Josh’s blog is such a pleasure to read, and I love that his list includes a bunch of stuff I’ve never heard, in addition to stuff I already like. I strongly recommend reading it even though it includes Goose.

Any studio that builds its brand around rejecting AI and lifting up artists at every stage of the creative process will get my money and support forever

Cup by Yoko Ono, commemorating the death of John Lennon, 1980. From her Illy Collection series of broken and mended cups. Kintsugi — repairing the broken while acknowledging the loss. I drink from this series often — and especially on this day.

I got through listening to everything on @aquariumdrunkard.com’s midyear list like a month ago. Anyway, digging into this. See you in like April.

But even that irrelevant because, and I can’t stress this enough, smuggling a product that people choose of their own volition to buy — even one with harmful health effects — is not a capital offense. Interdict, seize, dump, imprison. You cannot just kill. Full stop. End of story.

If you’re into improvised rock music, you have to hear this all-improvised album, which is as good as anything you’ll hear from any stateside jamband. Takes as much inspiration from 70s King Crimson’s jamming (they even play mellotron!) as from Phish/Dead. guranfoe.bandcamp.com/album/guranj...

It’s not his sign. It belongs to me and @johnnyemdee.bsky.social and the two friends we made it with, and we are in talks with lawyers about how to finally have it returned. That said, happy Jennifer Danceiversary to all those who saltebrate.

2025 was the best year for the label yet. Here's a compilation of my favorite tracks. The comp is free but if you want to put some bucks on it they all go to Maine Needs, who are doing a great job helping the folks in my immediate area who need it repeatingcloud.bandcamp.com/album/repeat...

Good morning. Fuck AI. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Not caught up yet, but started the AOTY 2025 spreadsheet last night. You won't be surprised by the early leader. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The thing about tonight’s special election is that there’s still almost a year for things to get worse for the GOP, because I certainly don’t think they’re gonna get better

I may be very wrong about this, but between it being - 3 weekends - a lot more expensive - shows that basically everyone has to travel to I can see Sphere tickets being a loooooot easier this time.

Update: the AI Jerry post that included a pic of (the famously sober) Trey with a beer in his hand is no more. I will say I have very mixed feelings about helping to unleash an angry mob on someone, but also that post sucked and I’m glad he took it down.

I try not to be a pearl clutcher about anything but especially about sobriety because I am not looking to gatekeep anything in any way or police anyone's behavior. But I will tell you that if someone used AI to make a picture of me drinking or using drugs that it would be very upsetting. 1/

I hated this so much that I had to share it with you.

Was really hoping Trey would wear hair extensions so he’d have the same pandemic haircut he had during the last Beacon Jams

I just found this old picture of a poster that was on the wall at the school my friend taught at and there’s some incredible stuff in there

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Something tells me that “pedophilia is fine if you round up” is not going to win over the masses.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

In 2018 people started talking about a "techlash" against Silicon Valley. The word kind of disappeared, but the anger is only increasing, especially now with AI being shoved down everyone's throats. This could become a real political movement. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-real-t...

Josh’s post is worth reading in its entirety. The points: 1) kill the filibuster 2) court reform 3) DC/PR statehood 4) clean up laws on presidential power 5) outlaw extreme gerrymandering These strike me as a really good starting point of foundational necessities.

Alex’s new music threads each week are awesome. Give her a follow.