🎶Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free Dizzy with eternity Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea Call it home for you and me🎶 It’s our only home.

Excellent show Friday night. Molly Tuttle joked there are three kinds of blue grass songs: songs of longing and regret, train songs and murder ballads. Later, with Marty Stuart she sang the sweetest “Cold Rain and Snow”. The YouTube link is from the night before. youtu.be/0oD1IDp91y4

@bencollins.bsky.social why is everything now The Onion?

Hard to believe we’re going back to the moon.

We each have something to say about our shared future. Don’t give up your voice. Don’t give up your choice. Don’t give up.

A stroll through the Desert Botanical Garden at night.

This looks like a great weekend! We might try to get there for Saturday.

Afternoon spent checking on some of our favorite shoreline spots.

Great March weather for the parade in Newport.

On a trip to central CT to see a specialist and the John Mayer Grateful Dead Listening Party will be on the whole way. Hope the rest of the day goes as well.

Feels different out there tonight.

RIP youtu.be/ft0vkKCadgk

Two things I love, public radio and the Grateful Dead. Tonight at 7PM MST, KGNU in Boulder CO will present 5 hours of music (and some talk) celebrating the life of Bob Weir. Listening together is better than listening alone. yellowscene.com/2026/03/06/k...

Clouds to the west blocked viewing the eclipse but got a nice sunrise.

Checking in on Erik the troll. Looks like he’s had enough of winter. trollmap.com

Plenty of snow means my wife will be dyeing lots of fabric. This one is pretty cool.

Couldn’t get anywhere for a few days, so all I saw of the blizzard aftermath was what was in my yard.

My kind of place.

Acoustic or Electric I wonder.

Reminds me of winters when I was a kid.

A song for today by true masters of their craft. youtu.be/h5P6tO2Rs70

Hard to measure this storm with the drifting.

“Sports but make it art”. youtu.be/_aGmi89MZK4

Well, put that in your pipe and smoke it. news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories...

No football today? No Problem!

In the moonlight, in the midnight In the moonlight, midnight moonlight 🎶

Stopped by the docks last night for one of those famous Key West sunsets.

If you visit a place that attracts free-spirited, open-hearted people, you’re likely to find a band playing Grateful Dead songs somewhere nearby.

The magic’s on the music. Kids know. youtu.be/7fg1-e7GzkU?...

Not really focused on the game tonight. Bob Weir’s last show was calling me.

Sharing some of my wife’s fabric creations, need some color to go with the music today. The first one always makes me think of the Grateful Dead.

50+ years of listening to Bob Weir. 30+ years of listening to WXPN. This is the plan for today. @wxpnfm.bsky.social #bobweir

Good Dead show from back in the day to listen to tonight. Jerry locked in on guitar resting his voice. Lots of Bobbie songs. archive.org/details/gd78...

He gave us a lifetime of music. Rest now.

One way or another This darkness got to give youtu.be/AR0pPDtz26M?...

This looks like a must see film for #Deadheads youtu.be/LlY-gn7yVyM

My New Year’s resolution is to stretch before work, but I didn’t do either today.

Start every year at the beach.

For all #DeadHeads - here’s a very special Space from the Sphere for tonight. Mickey Hart with his good friend Renee Fleming. Full six minutes at vimeo.com/1149099001

Hey fellow #DeadHeads - have you been naughty or nice this year?

Get you a beach with a Christmas tree.

This is becoming a New Year’s Eve tradition - spending the evening with people who love to play, listen and dance to the music of the Grateful Dead.

@wxpnfm.bsky.social #XPNCountdown I’ve added the WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs Of All Time to my countdowns landing page. ericknappe.github.io/countdowns/ Why something 5 years old? Well, they are the greatest songs of all time, no? Next up the 21st century. Good on a phone, great on a laptop.

@wxpnfm.bsky.social #XPNCountdown I’ve expanded my dashboard idea to include other XPN countdowns, first up is 2023. ericknappe.github.io/countdowns/g... The GitHub repo is github.com/ericknappe/countdowns

Birthday present concert - Pure Prairie League last night. An evening full of steel guitar and harmonies. I’m now 71 years old and 70 inches tall. The trend is not my friend.

@wxpnfm.bsky.social #XPNCountdown Definitely still thinking about it. I’ve expanded my dashboard to include a player and looked up a lot of the songs on Spotify and Deezer. Might add band camp for some. ericknappe.github.io/885coversongs/ GitHub repo is public.

My list of songs all landed on the #XPNCountdown All Along the Watch Tower - 1 Woodstock - 36 Not Fade Away - 98 I Shot the Sherrif - 83 Blinded by the Light - 28 Me and Bobby McGee - 19 I Heard It Through the Grapevine - 49 The Letter - 90 Take Me to the River - 8 Hurt - 2 Back to work Friday!

I’ve made my little dashboard experiment available on github. You can run it right from a page there. ericknappe.github.io/885coversongs/ #XPNCountdown @wxpnfm.bsky.social

Okay, enough with mp4 files. I whipped up a little dashboard for the final day of the #XPNCountdown @wxpnfm.bsky.social