Happy 80th birthday to one of music’s all time greatest cranks. Neil Young’s birthday oughta be a holiday, even for us Yanks who often don’t deserve him.

This record is so good!

Nice of the gales of November to come early in honor of the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Gilded ballrooms and trillion dollar pay packages while people starve. This is simply not sustainable, nor should it be. The greed and evilness is breathtaking.

And? Where’s the threat?

Fuck the Dodgers.

Sadly, so far it looks like the day of ICE terrorizing our community has really put a damper on trick or treating. Maybe 5% of what we usually have by this point.

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

ICE has straight up invaded Evanston. Schools are on lockdown, multiple helicopters, nearly every major intersection is patrolled. I’m furious.

I’m starting to think this isn’t so much a shutdown as a way to dissolve Congress without saying it. Not that they hadn’t been made essentially powerless before this. I fear we are in for some very rough times in the coming months.

You absolutely love to see the Dodgers getting shellacked in game 1.

Unaccountable troops in blue cities, nearly 35% of White House demolished w/out a permit (likely w/out proper hazardous material abatement), SNAP benefits about to expire for 42 million Americans and B-1 bombers & an aircraft carrier moving on Venezuela. We’re nine months in folks. I’m tired.

I think it’s time for a general strike. Seems like our only chance is to hit the billionaire supporters and sycophants where it hurts and shut down the economy.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Alls I’m saying is that it was 2-1 Blue Jays, then I put on my Mariners cap and started playing some Mudhoney and things turned around… This Cubs fan is pulling for Seattle.

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov why are you on the wrong side here? Really disappointed in you sending in the state police to do this.

It’s amazing that the restaurant started by Sammy Davis Junior and Ella Fitzgerald failed so quickly. I guess no one wanted to eat at Sam & Ella’s.

Sad to see the Spaceman died. Can’t say I listen to them much these day, but from about the ages five to ten I thought KISS was the coolest band on the planet. RIP Ace.

Without fail, every single time I step foot in a Trader Joe’s, at least 40% of the other customers have seemingly never stepped foot in a grocery store in their entire lives and are simply baffled by everything.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Not an NFL conspiracist, but ZERO penalties called on the Chiefs last night might have tipped their hands a little.

Damn it Cubs. Hell of a season though, on to next year.

That game was intense! Now on to the Cubs taking game 5.

Be like Chase, see it in 70mm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social - I did, and it was incredible!

In case you need another example of my random jumps in music taste, I just chased the Sabrina Carpenter album with the latest from Kayo Dot.

Some day in the not so distant future, assuming we survive the current regime, we’re going to look back on sports betting the same way we do the opioid crisis and the 2008 market bubble as a preventable catastrophe that sacrificed a lot of people’s financial lives for the enrichment of a select few.

Legitimately great news. Now can we have one to block the Texas National Guard being sent to Chicago?

David Cross folks.

He didn’t get the reaction he wanted in L.A. and he didn’t get the reaction he wanted in Chicago, so now he’s moving on to Portland. It’s all so transparently stupid. But sending good thoughts to my Portland people out there.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Switching to the stream of the Goose show I should have been at tonight was a significant improvement over that Illinois game. 🤮

Incredible how quiet things got when the shooter turned out to be a terminally online right winger. Good news is the civil war is postponed.

Interesting to note those who have been silent after every school shooting and the killings of the Minnesota politicians suddenly “heartbroken” about Kirk’s shooting. You are showing your whole ass and we will remember.

He’s trying to start a war.

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Oh wow, RIP to Brent Hinds of Mastodon. A troubled guy, but an absolute monster guitarist. His work with Mastodon was incredible and this is not the ending his story deserved.

30 years gone. When he died I had just barely started exploring the Dead. Within a year Hundred Year Hall and Skeletons in the Closet started getting regular play in my rotation. 30 years later rarely a day goes by where I don’t hear at least a little of his music. Miss him all the same.

It really is difficult to fathom that we are only 1/8th of the way into his term and we already have a legacy network turned into an official mouthpiece for the state (CBS), federal employees fired for reporting facts and concentration camps.

Happy birthday Jerry.

Not that anyone asked, but my prediction for AI over the next ten years? A handful of douchebags are going to make billions from it, many more will lose their shirts investing in it, and it’s going to make life noticeably more shitty for the rest of us. How much more shitty is the open question.

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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Great evening with Powers/Rolin Duo and Rose City Band last night. Barry Walker Jr pulling some double duty was an added bonus.

I don’t want to overstate it, but I legit cannot remember Phish having a year this strong and this consistent since the 1990s. Hell of a thing to say for a band this far in. I’m loving it and glad I got to catch the full Chicago run.

My grilling playlist tonight included Wilco, Sabbath, Phish, Opeth, Billy Strings, Atomic Rooster, Can, Little Feat, Yes and Toad. Just as a peek inside my mind.

Others have spoken far more eloquently about him than me these last few days, but the importance of Ozzy Osbourne cannot be overstated. Him and Sabbath invented of entire genres in a single day back in 1969. RIP to THE metal legend.

Ty Segall always a real one.

A surreal convo of excessive brutality. Not a war in Ukraine or the Middle East. Just farms in California. Some America. Some shithole country now in the grips of fascism. Some broken place.