Dump day

The strangeness of death, of silence and absence, of saying yes I’ll go through his clothes tomorrow and take whatever I like

100 degrees in Colorado time to go to Pinball Jones in Fort Collins

Official @danshafer.bsky.social street team

The Strokes were great

Strokes show is still on, per AmFamAmp

Anyone else doing lawn seats for The Strokes tonight?

Wednesday / Thursday

Ah yes, the Milwaukee County pension scandal. Or: how a group of people gamed the system, made out like bandits, and bankrupted the County for generations to come. A true Boomer success story!

So long, 2002 Chevy Tracker. You were a real one.

Today on Milwaukee Record: a wildly entertaining deep-dive on West Allis record store Record Head, from writer Mike Holloway. Lawyers, guns, and records do indeed make appearances, as do bongs, bootlegs, and Jiu-Jitsu instructors

An absolutely LOADED week/weekend in Milwaukee. Multiple festivals (6 on the same day!), multiple gallery nights, great installments of weekly music series, big national shows, tons of top-shelf local shows, 17 Milwaukee Record events, more.

Record Recommended

Ever since seeing Spoon at Summerfest I've been hearing Spoon everywhere so hell yeah it's the Summer of Spoon

A real Up-Down, Pizza Shuttle, Landmark kind of night why not

Kind of surprised, actually

Wishing the best of luck to The Familiar Place. Super cool! Great cocktails, though the focus definitely seems to be on offering (free) gaming space. Might do a 5-player Terraforming Mars event there soon?

No, thank YOU

I love how every Wikipedia page for the original STAR TREK movies has a section about how Gene Roddenberry hated the script and suggested a bunch of changes and everyone told him to go to hell

Hard to beat

Woke up feeling awful but then I biked 5 miles to work, worked, biked 5 miles to the Landmark, got a billion+ on James Bond pinball, and am now drinking a celebratory High Life

Later this week or early next week: Summerfest attendance announcement! Last year was 602,231. Feels like it'll be more this year. Fun!

Morning commute wildlife

Jerry Harrison’s “50 Years of Talking Heads” show was…really good! And the crowd was…REALLY into it!

Always a big draw at the Aurora Pavilion: rain

If you read only one review of last night's Spoon show at Summerfest that's partially inspired by the closing paragraph of John Cheever's masterful 1951 short story "Goodbye, My Brother," make it this one.

Pretty packed!

GTA East Side Milwaukee ‘94

A meeting of the Locals

Milwaukee, 11:30 a.m.

I’m ready

One of those days

I'd like to announce that I, too, am suspending my campaign for governor, am likely to be traded to either the Heat or the Celtics, and am thrilled to be the newest member of Storm Team 4

I spent the first half of Father's Day writing a David Lee Roth review, as is custom.

Let's all have a great weekend

Happy first day of Summerfest, Milwaukee. Here's a handy and up-to-date lineup:

Tyler pointed this out and we're never uploading another photo to FB again

First/last day of 6th grade. Where does the time go.

Sunday summer(ish) vibes

IT’S FINISHED

Mandatory Milwaukee

NEW MILWAUKEE BIRDING ARTICLE ALERT (lovely photos and words, as always, from Kyle Arpke)

Seems like a good thing for all parties involved, actually

Pretty much sums up what I bring to local daytime television

Record Recommended

Talked to a guy today who prefers Sammy Hagar Van Halen (Van Hagar) over David Lee Roth Van Halen. Huh.

Friday

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