Y’all wanna hear a wild story? Charlie is right — this medley Prince made 30 years ago, blending many of his greatest hits & fan favorites into an extended mashup, is one of the most fun “only Prince could do this” things he made in the 90s. BUT: he told us he was gonna do it. In an AOL chat room…

how awe unfolds

Just read my son a children's book that actually made me mad We picked it up in a little library, looked like it was self published, which is cool But It rhymed randomly at times and not at all at others. Numerous misspellings. Poorly done MS paint art Gonna bin it when he's asleep

Seriously, Bluesky? The unwarranted suspension smacks of incompetent AI, but how you’re handling this suggests human incompetence. Hire an experienced strategic comms professional posthaste, and let them build a team.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

So, let me see if I’ve got this right. Proud Bo…sorry, ICE agents are essential workers and are getting paid during the shutdown, but Air Traffic Controllers are not and are working without pay. Got it…

Kinda think that in this age of relentless transactionalism and humanity-extractive technology of all types, it makes more and more sense to leave the mistakes in when presenting music or other art to people

Today in casual birding

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Trump administration is making another behind-closed-doors attempt to gut environmental protections in the Northwest Forest Plan that covers most of the country's remaining old-growth forests. 🌏 www.opb.org/article/2025...

Gentlemen: thank you for your service.

happy full beaver moon

One of the coolest things about the Deadcast has been hearing from Donna, her wonderful warm voice and good cheer, and above all the fact that she seemed to regard those times with affection - I'm sure it was more complex, but I was glad for her that she seemed quite happy. Fare thee well, queen 🫡

You don't really gain an hour when the clocks change in the fall, you're just borrowing it from the future, when they change back in springtime Time Debt

Put on Infrared Roses, told my 3 y.o. that it's Spooky Halloween Music

Here is the long and short of it.

Hello Baltimore BlueSky, a little last minute promotion for y'all. I've put a band together to play a FREE Halloween party at the Roland Water Tower today, from 3-5 We are Friends of Friends and the Peregrine Family Band Hope to see you

If you're reading stories to a young child, the way they all should finish is with "The End", intoned in a baritone register and expressed as a descending V-I. This is the rule as I understand it

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Need to restore your faith in humanity? Listen to Lungfish #powerofmusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxIb...

If you're a musician playing DC, please sign the below! "As musicians who’ve performed at D.C. venues and contributors to the local music scene, we support the workers of 9:30 Club... who are seeking a fair process to unionize. We believe that unionizing will lead to a more just workplace."

I didn't make it to a No Kings event today due to family reasons but I played some tunes at an outdoor party on a farm and ended my set with Chimes of Freedom, which I dedicated to the protesters in solidarity Felt like it was the highlight of the set actually

More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Unsourced but I wouldn't put it past them

I'm presently finding myself in the position of having a cold, and when I have a cold I have found few things as miraculous as orange-colored mega antioxidant juice

Pretty cool how the woman who won the NPP didn't even have to blow up any boats

The Living Wage for Musicians Act would claim a portion of streaming platform earnings for *human* recording musicians, which means if they choose to do nothing about AI slop, they pay us for the privilege weareumaw.org/make-streami...

See my wife, she's in a bowling league. They're having this dinner dance. It's an annual thing. Anyway-

Baltimore lost a legend on Friday night

I wonder how old my (now 3 y.o.) son will be when he learns that the name of the aquatic animal is not actually pronounced "sea anemonemonemonemonemonemone"

Destined to be part of my late afternoon listening today

Last April I got to be part of an ensemble playing with Drums Of Life (David Bergander, Mike Kuhl, and Mike Lowry) and the album made from the recording is out TODAY for Bandcamp Friday Enjoy here: drumsoflife.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Give me articles or give me death

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

Pay attention to the strategies being employed here.

Old King Cole. He just wanted to smoke a bowl and listen to some jams, and really who can blame him

It probably goes without saying, but: as much as possible, be there for your friends and family whose lives have been affected or turned upside down by this awful year and the people who wanted it to happen. There is a tremendous amount of pain, grief, and trauma out there.

The impending onset of autumn has me reaching for some Da Hong Pao. So nice.

ABC stands for All Bitches and Cowards

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

I want to live in a world where I'll never have to explain to my 3 year old son or my <1 year old daughter what a groyper is

A boy and his dinosaur, in front of a seaside fish restaurant

A vineyard in Cape May, NJ, right behind the house where we are staying

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior. These are inextricably linked.

Did they go "do-do-do-deedee-do..." in the harmonica solo parts, or

I'm not a fan of this traffic jamageddon. It has fully enclosed my neighborhood, making my getting to Philly for this afternoon's Arbouretum show potentially an exercise in Kafkaesque futility

Still doing this Name Your Price deal, which is also in effect on 2-3 of my other more recent releases too

I like that there's a busy intersection near me where there are No Kings/No ICE protests just about every workday at around 5-6