Unboxing upgrades 4 my Fender FR12 today. New horn from Celestion and the Archangel Electronics "V3." A year ago I thought: this FR12 is actually a pretty cool mod platform. What a delight to discover I wasn't the only one to think so! A.E. makes a pro-grade drop in preamp replacement! #guitarsky

Your occasional reminder about the SolarWinds supply chain hack of 2019-2020. We still have no clue how much blackmail material was acquired or backdoors installed by Russia over the 8-9 months before it was discovered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Un...

Happy birthday, Bobby!

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I'm guessing the White House about now must feel like a creepy reboot of the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life." Everyone in the cabinet hoping to not be sent to the cornfield for thinking bad thoughts...

Furthurmore, 10/3/25 Martyrs' - Chicago, IL Setlist: 1 Mississippi Half-step Cassidy Lazy River Rd Easy Wind Brown-eyed Woman Money for Gasoline Mountain Song Playing in the Band 2 Shakedown St Weather Report Suite Crazy Fingers Staggerlee Other 1> So Many Roads Box of Rain Sugar Magnolia

Two alumni of Phil Lesh and Friends, Furthur and The Other Ones jamming together tonight and tomorrow (Fri/Sat Oct 3/4) with a great band at Martyrs' in Chicago! (For a reasonable $25 ticket, fyi!) Please help spread the word!

Taking a break from binging Neal Stephenson to check out the new Dan Brown book. 💙📚

Trump followers (MAGAs) are not conservatives, they are a populist mob who have smeared the conservative label on themselves the way pack dogs roll in shit to hide their scent from prey.

The notion that every US citizen's values are either all liberal or all conservative is preposterous.

Just finished "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. Many interesting threads, but not sure I understood how they intersected at the end ..? I'll surf around for reviews and discussion now. 💙📚

Off to Oregon! Thu Sep 4 - Bend Fri Sep 5 - Portland Sat Sep 6 - Eugene

I am performing a solo set in Madison WI tonight at the Atwood Theater, 8p showtime. It's been awhile! I used to play here often.

Sometimes I'll catch the strangest research obsessions. Right now it's ribosomes. Still can't find a reasonable explanation for what energy system drives the mRNA through the translation process or draws in the tRNA. Brownian indeterminacy, is that a thing? Free energy?

Y'all know this trick? #hotelhacks

Helloooo Chicago! Just landed, playing Friday in Aurora, Sunday in Madison, WI

I'm touring solo this weekend: Fri Aug 22 - Aurora, IL Sun Aug 24 - Madison, WI Old stomping grounds!

Getting lots of stories today blaming South Park for Karoline Leavitt's wardrobe changes, especially dropping the "cross necklace." The clips don't look that bad to me, so guessing the real reason is the cross started burning her skin when she lies?

Some things to think about for 2028 Democratic POTUS nominee (besides likeability or purity politics) : Experience - esp managing a large public service staff Leadership - history of successful crisis team management Network - friends + collaborators in other states, federal branches, + parties

I was the son and grandson of 3 army veterans, sights set on West Point when I was "radicalized" by writing a report for HS frosh English on the Beirut bombings in the early 80's, then rolled with the Model UN club (among other nerdly occupations) before solidly landing in the counterculture.

Amazing site for Re/Evolution 2025!

I have a theory that the combo of nitrous oxide + LSD produces some of the higher-self interaction that is known with ibogaine visionary experience. Specifically, a number of ppl have shared their experience of being alone in a "mirror room," or sometimes with a "guide" showing them their flaws.

Wondering what percentage of the air in San Francisco is nitrous oxide today...

Currently reading Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, wondering if his work will be my next completist obsession. 💙📚 #booksky

Melvin Seals and JGB setlist 8/1/25 Great American Music Hall - SF, CA Stop That Train In the Midnight Hour Masterpiece Breadbox West LA Fadeaway That's Alright Mama Let Me Roll It Eyes of the World Drumworld Lucky Strike Gomorrah Tangled Up in Blue Sisters & Brothers Deal

My Days, and Days Between: 7/31: Heart of Town - Pier 48 - SF, CA 8/1: Melvin Seals - GAMH - SF, CA 8/2: Melvin Seals - McLaren Park -SF, CA 8/2: Melvin Seals - GAMH - SF, CA 8/3: Axial Tilt - GAMH - SF, CA 8/7: Solo - Hamilton - DC 8/9: Melvin Seals - Darrington, WA

Tryna figure out how to mashup Ozzy Osbourne with Chuck Mangione...

Rochester NY tonight! 8:30p MLK park

Colbert for President! *That* would be sweet justice.

I trust NPR to not "change formats."

If you cancel your Paramount+ subscription, consider switching it to a monthly donation to your local NPR or PBS station.

-Bluesky exclusive- Just added: Oct 3/4 Martyrs' - Chicago, IL John K's Furthurmore Rob Barraco - keys Tom Circosta - guitar John-Paul McClean - bass Denise Parent - drums On sale soon! johnkmusic.net

Why is every "Cheating Death" clip from the old Colbert Report scrubbed from YouTube? ...the old satire of big pharma but with "Prescott Pharmaceuticals" and hilarious made up side-effects

Hey now, LA! I'm performing solo tonight at The Venice West!

🤣🤣🤣 Crazy, but Grok (Xitter's AI chatbot) is amazing at taking down maga disinformation.

Speaking of Andor... One discussion point about the SW franchise is the nearly complete absence of journalism or news media. I can only think rn of the pod race in ep 1... In Andor s2 it's a major thread. Maybe after the DS was built, the empire could zero out the propaganda budget?

Know what I don't see? Anyone around DC trashing Muriel Bowser for getting stuck with orynj duphis in a photo op. In fact I see support and meme generation from her side-eye expressions. Let's take a clue from Andor and *not* throw allies under the bus for doing their jobs.

If you think this timeline sucks, you should see some of the others. (Paraphrasing Philip K. Dick)

Happy Beltane, from NOLA!

Are we doing #tbt here? Here's a promo photo from 1990 of the band I played with back then, called Uncle Buffalo's Urban Mountain Review. I was 21 years old, and it was my first weekly gig, every Friday in the Chicago Loop at a small dive called Rori's. I played mostly violin and mandolin.

If you want a glimpse of where the US is heading, read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson (or at least the Wikipedia "plot background.") Anarcho-capitalism breaks up the US into "franchise-organized quasi-national entities" through aggressive privatization. Crypto destroys the US$ with hyperinflation.

I think therefore iambic pentameter.

Salmon chanted evening

Something feels off about the new season of Andor.

Hello Denver!!! Just landed for shows with Melvin Thursday and Friday at Cervantes and Saturday at 10 Mile music hall in Frisco!

I'm old enough to remember when Google was just a new website that put your search query into 4-6 other search engines and opened each in a separate window (web browsers didn't have tabs yet)... Seems like someone could do that again? Google, duck duck go, bing... Prob just a plugin needed?

Happy Bicycle Day!

Good Friday! In 1962 Walter Pahnke along with Timothy Leary and Ram Das (Richard Alpert back then) designed an experiment with Harvard Divinity School graduate student volunteers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_C...

Here's something a little weird: Every "Cheating Death" clip from the Colbert Report appears to have been scrubbed from YouTube.