Gonna tell my kids this was Aerosmith.

Saw Mark Ruffalo & Tobias Menzies in audience at Wallace Shawn's *What We Did Before Our Moth Days* last night. They were respectful & did not invade my privacy. My big NYC birthday also included petting about 100 dogs at Meet the Breeds™ & going to the excellent NY Sign Museum in East New York.

I think this does not require an Instagram account to see. It does require a strong stomach, though.

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

I think experimental improv music would be better if nobody used looper pedals. And maybe no delay pedals at all.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

"...'Sanctions' arrives as both continuation and reckoning..." parade.com/news/souled-...

It's just one dog night now unless @harryshearer.bsky.social steps in to fill Chuck's shoes.

RIP Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night 🍆 💣

This may be a Hudson Valley thing, but trying to find a therapist who does not spend half their bio talking about woo-woo stuff is...a challenge. I'm not looking for experimental dance therapy or shamanic soul retrieval. I'm just sad & anxious in a crazy world and would like some fucking science.

I hate Facebook for many reasons, one of the smallest being how it shuts non- account holders out of local info My parents are cut off from so much info in their village because everyone puts events, news, council admin on Facebook. Social media shouldn’t be public infrastructure

Punxsutawney, man: you’ve barely recovered from the oddity of an s after that x, and then there’s that utterly unexpected second u. Damn!

Predictive text fail:

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

Tashi Dorji and Che Chen at Tubby’s. I really needed some music.

Went to 2:00 anti-ICE march in Kingston. Seemed well attended, but organizers told us speeches at 3, marching at *5*. It's like NO fucking degrees out there. I stuck it out through a bit of speechifying & left when inevitable folksinger arrived. County Exec Jen Metzger was there with NO HAT ON.

You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.

Guy at Sunrise Bagels helped me get my card unstuck from their busted ATM. Then he said "so I guess you needed cash huh?" and told me to just get whatever I wanted and pay him back the next day (they are cash-only). If you need me, I am blubbering like a baby on the floor at Sunrise Bagels.

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

R.I.P. guitarist/composer Tim Thomas of Babe The Blue OX, Bang On A Can, the Amphitheaters, and Sō Percussion.

Designed the new Joe Jackson album, Hope & Fury, out Apr 10. Thanks to Joe for brilliant concept & photo & for being a pleasure to work with. LP is fantastic. I managed to get through several phone calls with Joe without gushing about learning bass by learning every song off his first few albums.

Get his ass.

That thing in movies where people stand unnaturally close to each other while talking seems to be on a real upswing lately.

Pro tip from a book designer: If you think your prose's change of register requires changing typeface or running a whole passage in italics, I am here to say that 99% of the time the answer is "No." *Maybe* a space break. Possibly not even that.

BULLET IN THE HEAD: best movie ever? Or best thing of any sort, ever?

Two thing I don't really like: Podcasts and long things. One thing I like, but with *many* reservations: The Grateful Dead. So I'm as surprised as anyone to recommend Deadcast, the official GD podcast, produced & narrated (and I assume written) by @bourgwick.bsky.social 1/2

Hardboiled nerds, word nerds: in Raymond Chandler’s THE HIGH WINDOW, Marlowe says, “the Lombardos are still doing all right,” seemingly to mean “cry me a river” or something. (There are no Lombardos in the story.) Anyone familiar with this expression, its meaning or source?

Is this real? I don’t think this is real.

Tonight i am missing a gig by my beloved band, Life in a Blender. Our cellist will handle bass duties.

My phone battery now only lasts 4 hours, which is almost exactly how long I can stay awake now that I am "recovered" from the flu. More proof, if it were needed, that our phones are spying on us.

Had the privilege of designing the cover for the VERY long-awaited album by Souled American, whose music has meant more to me than I can explain Releases 4/17 but there’s a song out now & you can advance buy/presave etc Thank you to Chris and Joe for the trust, the cover painting, and the music.

Movie dialogue of the year (so far), from DUST BUNNY: MAN: "Mom." HIS MOTHER: "Don't call me that, it's hurtful."

wtf is twitch

Folks, this flu does not fuck around. If you haven’t got it: do not leave the house or interact with any humans ever until April or May.

National bullshit arrives locally: theoverlooknews.com/hurley-offic...

Bingo. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ic...

I slept *zero* hours last night and I don’t think that was enough. Spent all day writhing with the flu. Writing this is tiring me out.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

I think you folks need a photo of Marge and Mrs Miller.

I’ve often snarkily said i wish the dead was just Jerry & Phil & a decent drummer, but really Bob Weir was kind of a genius rhythm player. that 2-guitar interplay was key & after i walk these dogs i’m gonna listen to a bunch of versions of Jack Straw (my fave Weir song) & wish Bobby happy trails.

Tonight, on the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s passing, I’m playing bass in Woodstock NY at an annual Bowie Birthday celebration. This year our 2nd set will be all of ZIGGY STARDUST. Shocking to realize that incredible LP is maybe only Bowie’s 7th or 8th best. theoverlooknews.com/david-bowie-...

The sickening realization that Jonathan Ross is going to get wealthy from all of this.

At MLA? Go check out the latest from m'day job.

Special shout out to all the dangerous doofuses who shared an earlier completely fictional misidentification of this piece of shit.

Reading at this event in Catskill, NY tonight. A benefit for local community experimental radio station @wgxc-90point7fm.bsky.social Vibe may be different than originally planned, in light of recent news, but it will be good to be buoyed by people and to work towards community and not division.

Pour one out for Andrew Bodnar, bassist for the Rumour. RIP. Is there a performance more fierce than this ever by anyone? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN25...

Fuuuuck this shit

Only scored 43 out of 58 on this quiz.

Playing bass at City Winery NYC tomorrow for the annual David Bowie birthday bash hosted by Robert Burke Warren, w/guests including Steve Wynn, which I can’t quite wrap my head around. Hope i can play it cool in the dressing room and not go all Chris-Farley-meeting-Paul-McCartney on him.