My mother was a high school student in Washington DC during WWII and she is still alive watching ‘Ancient Aliens’ every chance she gets

Absolutely incredible film by an absolutely incredible film director— great seeing it on a big screen tonight at @mkefilm.bsky.social

Chairman Mao appears to be asking me, “What is it this time?” But actually he is happy to see me. I think #cats

A really fun album of Bollywood hits played on guitar. This is a sampler’s goldmine as well.

There is only New York, Chicago (deep dish and tavern style) and Detroit styles of American pizza. Every other supposed “[city] style” pizza is just a sad display of making it wrong and being stubborn about it. “San Antonio Pizza” “Eastside Pittsburgh Pizza” — no, sorry, I couldn’t hear you

Neither a ginger nor a baker, he nevertheless

Damn you, trees!

with Bill MacKay, Patri Satish Kumar, and Ryan Jewell at the iO Theater in Chicago tonight. Fusion at its finest

with the Bitchin Bajas at Falcon Bowl last night in Milwaukee

with Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer at the Falcon Bowl in Milwaukee last night

Schlitz Beer

with Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer at Falcon Bowl in Milwaukee right now

Who’s up for recording the Bitchin Bajas and Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer tonight? LFG

For a quick taste of what Sam sounds like live, a recording from earlier this year from the Milwaukee Taper blog — www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/07/sam-...

Let the sky rain potatoes

with Ak'chamel, the Giver of Illness, at Acme Records in Milwaukee in June 2023

Jack Hayes, best and most lovely #beagle of all time, rests after a long day of pretending to be starving, October 2023

A painting of purple tulips by Cynthia Hayes, oil on canvas, 2023

With Jeb Bishop and two trombonists from Germany whose names I forget at the Sugar Maple in Milwaukee in October 2023

Looks like EKG paper, appropriately enough

To a #beagle, they’re all bad bunnies

with filament from Brooklyn at MKE-Ultra in Milwaukee right now

with Rick Ollman, Jane Buttars, and Eli Smith at MKE-Ultra in Milwaukee right now

Ticket sales for Morrissey in Milwaukee seem to be going well

Ultimate Painting at KEXP about 10 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYr...

Hanging at a UWM art school open house

I keep telling my wife to add some bright color to her work but she doesn’t listen

with saxophonist Jon Irabagon at the Sugar Maple in Milwaukee in April 2023

Thank goodness this article uses some emdashes — —

with sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar at a private performance in Milwaukee in June 2016

with trumpeter Russ Johnson, bassist Jason Roebke, and drummer Mike Reed at Woodland Pattern Bookcenter in Milwaukee in June 2016

with trumpeter Russ Johnson, bassist Jason Roebke, and drummer Mike Reed at Woodland Pattern Bookcenter in Milwaukee in June 2026

with jazz drummer Quin Kirchner at the Sugar Maple in Milwaukee in September 2023

with harpist Stephan Haluska and percussionist Adam Shead at the Jazz Gallery in Milwaukee on August 8

with Neil Young a month ago in Milwaukee

Two nights ago at @cactusclubmke.bsky.social — the view from my mic stand in back and what it looks like when you leave

“Are you aware that the beagle is in the backyard? And I am not? Is that fair?” #cats

“Are you absolutely positively not going to feed me again, papa?” #beagles

“Where is my second breakfast, papa?” #beagles

Chonky boy guarding the bodega in Hubei Province, China @bodegacats.bsky.social

11:11 —— Sun Ra says, “Make a wish.”

Great label with a great roster of musicians. Get the merch while you can.

with Wife at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee right now

A minute of Badman at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee right now

with Badman from Cincinnati at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee right now

30 seconds of Poor Ridley at the cactus club right now in Milwaukee. (Chicago rock poet Thax Douglas up front digging it)

with Poor Ridley at Cactus Club in Milwaukee right now

A minute of PBS at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee right now

with Primitive Broadcast Service at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee at this very moment

This concert lineup reads like a short story