I really don’t think you can capture the 1970s in Southern California more than a Doobie Brothers concert on the beach in Santa Barbara.

He’s never done this before, but 5 months ago I predicted it! www.northjersey.com/story/sports...

I stopped being a Yankee fan tonight. It’s been fading for years. I love watching Judge, but this organization represents values I can’t stand behind. I still love Berra, Munson, Murcer, Guidry, Reggie, Mattingly, and others, but not this current Yankee organization.

The internet has spawned a lot of terrible things, but “rick-rolled” was one of its highlights. youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?...

What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s were actually like.

I feel like the best rock concert ever performed during a Labor Day weekend is the Grateful Dead Englishtown 77.

Did Trump drop his phone in an airplane toilet and have a fatal heart attack trying to retrieve it?

Final night in Rome sitting in the seat right in front of the Brando signed photo at Fettuccine Alfredo.

The Borgias were the Trumps of Renaissance Europe. A family built on corruption, financial crimes, and violent power plays, all under the guise of religion, they built this gaudy palace in central Rome. They are despised among Romans.

Carbonara and red wine, the good life Rome 2025.

Airline travel these days. Been here since 3 pm.

Interesting that a fan of the recent “remixes” of the classic albums would praise fatal self-destruction as a “punk idea” while also failing to recognize that Bob was an incredibly good technical and innovative guitarist when not obliterated by drugs and alcohol.

The recent degradation of these classic two albums by over-produced antiseptic digital “re-mixes” completely destroyed the original feel of these albums that represented well the band itself and the scene in general.

Top ten greatest rock performances of all time. This one gives me chills 40 years later. Talk about rising to the occasion. U2 at Live Aid. youtu.be/6tu7MZGQXns?...

The entire Live Aid concert across all cities was uploaded to YouTube last week on the 40th anniversary and the footage is amazing. I watched much of this live and remember it well, but these performances are strikingly great. Queen on now.

We had a pot luck Thanksgiving dinner that night at SPR. What a special show.

Takaat live at Tubby's 2025-05-08 is up on NycTaper. Absolute ripper. If you missed this run of shows for some reason, we've got you covered! www.nyctaper.com/2025/07/taka...

The broadcast showed the Warren Spahn statue outside the stadium and the announcers said nothing. The disrespect for baseball history is appalling.

The Jonas Brothers turning cancer into a promo for a terrible new song is pretty on-point for this clusterfuck of an all-star game.

The All-Star introduction is indeed ludicrous.

ICE radicalized me today. A wonderful hard-working client at USCIS with his wife for a standard bona fides interview was dragged away in chains by ICE. A total setup job by a bunch of faceless collaborators. The karmic backlash for these soulless cyborgs will hopefully be swift and just.

Oh no, an attractive smart man with energy. What will we do!

The new Google commercial is sad because it’s as if Google knows it destroyed a powerful tool and they’re giving themselves a eulogy.

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert, you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

The Blind Tiger. I used to be a regular so often they gave me a plaque.

And yet Mike Love is still alive.

I see this thumbnail I can can actually hear this song in my head. Late era David Byrne songs are so formulaic, that you can conjure up the song without even hearing it.

Over the last twenty years, I’ve had contact with Billy Jones many many times. He was literally never unpleasant and never failed to smile. He was a major mover in NYC music circles for more than 2 decades and we are all better off because Billy lived and worked here. Devastating loss.

The Yankees received a compensation pick in the June 2013 draft when Nick Swisher left as a free agent. With that pick they drafted Aaron Judge.

The scary part of today's news is that people actually believe that D-Day ended the War in Europe. D-Day began the year-long process that eventually ended the War. From June 1944 to March '45, there was heavy fighting, and the Allies didn't enter Germany until March 22, 1945. VE day was May 8, 1945.

John Smoltz claims Anthony Volpe “replaced” Derek Jeter. Jeter retired 11 years ago.

Fried’s first bad start this year and it’s almost June.

That the families of fallen soldiers given scholarships can fill a stadium is not the flex you think it is.

Andrew Cuomo is RFK Jr without the heroin.

This was curled up underneath a giant dresser drawers that got moved tonight. Oh, those days.

Jeanines at @transpecos.bsky.social on June 27!

The NBA wants a Game 6. They apparently activated Tim Donaghy to ref this game.

Benny Kauff reinstated today!

My mother is the wonderful saint of a woman on the left. She’s been gone for 18 years but a day doesn’t go by when I don’t thank my fortune that she was my mother. I see her spirit in my children and it gives me joy.

The Shakedown from 11/24/78, a beautiful glorious mess, completely untethered and totally dynamic. The Grateful Dead at their best and worst all in one song. Fascinating music. youtu.be/rE5NP6nQr4g?...

The average American has three friends.

The Knicks are going to lose this series.

I feel like if the academics in the next century are doing research on 20th century cocaine abuse and they watch Stop Making Sense they’ll get a too positive view of the problem.

I’m rooting for Stanley Tucci to become Pope.

I miss the days of the Papal Schism when there were two, and later three, popes. Now we have zero. Pope deflation has to stop.

Does Steve Gelbs seriously not understand why NFL helmets are so thickly padded?

I was in a bar restaurant in rural Pennsylvania yesterday and they had Newsmax on the television. There is a bizarre alternative reality where people are led to believe that things are going well and that incompetent leaders are not destroying the world’s economy.

The Benny Kauff Show with Trae #cardsky by @nyctaper.bsky.social