Another update on what my vegan daughter is eating while living and working in China. See Alt text for descriptions

Update on what my vegan daughter is eating while living and working in China. Barbecue — potatoes, green peppers, baby lettuce, cucumbers, lotus root and a type of yam. All soaked in a smoky spiced oil and then roasted and brought to the table in batches. And a can of Pepsi.

Their strongest album since ‘The Correct Use of Soap’

The US has essentially given up daring to do great things. Infrastructure is the same story — tell Ted Redhat that somewhere someone wants to build high speed rail with his tax dollars and he’ll start shaking and squealing.

In Galway, September 2025

Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 1/23/26 -13°F (−25°C) air temperature and feels like −38°F (−39°C)

Ok things are starting to get real

Current mood

“Go slow” is a super important price of advice. Do two or three shifts of shoveling. I used to think it was better just to to push it and get it done and that’s how I wound up with a bulging L5-S1 disk and a whole lot of pain.

The only true comas occur in Glasgow. Otherwise they are just “sparkling deep sleep.”

The Hive Mind has decided

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Hell YES Luis.

Cheloids of London

TIL that Reggie Workman is still alive.

Rick Astley had some real wisdom to share at times

walking around at night in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee

with James McKain, Ipek Eginili, Evan Palmer, and Weasel Walter at the Milwaukee Jazz Gallery a week and a half ago:

Jennifer Kelly is facing a tough battle against cancer after her diagnosis on Christmas Day, and the costs are overwhelming. Please consider clicking the link below to donate or share it with others who might help. gofund.me/7a7486b6b

Ralph Towner had a long and varied career. He will be missed. youtu.be/swVNSa8AAic?...

An update on what my vegan daughter is eating while living and working in China. “I got some hot and sour fruit. I chose nectarines and green mango. I guess the green mango is the one that’s traditionally used. It was a chili salt mix like tajin and a sweet sour plum syrup.”

with @modernnature.bsky.social earlier tonight at Constellation Chicago

with Jack Cooper at the Prince Albert in Brighton, England in September 2024

They’re playing “Farewell Transmission” at Constellation Chicago over the PA right now and I almost can’t believe how beautiful of a song it is, just so beautifully recorded and played

with Brigid Dawson and @modernnature.bsky.social — wish I could follow these guys for the next week and tape every show but there’s no possible way

with Brigid Dawson at Constellation Chicago right now

with Brigid Dawson and the @modernnature.bsky.social backing band at Constellation Chicago at this very moment

At Constellation in Chicago waiting for the doors to open for the @modernnature.bsky.social show

Cover of the first issue of a national magazine to contain my writing. A few album reviews. At the time (about 1990) I had been writing for a local newspaper in Lansing, MI for a few years but this was my first time writing for a magazine.

Jack Hayes, notorious pizza-stealing beagle, studying a ceramic statue of Bodai, a 10th century Chinese monk.

Balmy weather tonight in the Walker’s Point neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

A year ago today, few blocks north of the Milwaukee border.

Please please @president.ie please can I just have Irish citizenship just this once please I promise to behave

I guess this is a relief since hotels are crazy expensive in Knoxville every spring

Every time I see this album cover I think, “Frank Netter” (example in the comments)

I didn’t book a single thing on trip dot com in 2025 but they want me to look anyway

Chairman Mao is guarding my boxes of LPs and begging me to not bring them to Acme Records for store credit. Sorry Chairman, sometimes we have to let go of our attachments. #Cats

An awful lot of fucking around in the USA at the moment. There will be a lot of finding out at some point in the future

Daughter in China hunting cats.

Another Art Ensemble of Chicago recording by Aadam just dropped — archive.org/details/ajc0...

Art Ensemble of Chicago Live at Ravinia Festival 1985-08-13 archive.org/details/ajc0...

my recording of Spiral Galaxy (featuring members of Plastic Crimewave Syndicate and Mako Sica) at the 2024 Milwaukee Psych Fest is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and high quality mp3 file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/01/spir...

at Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, in April 2021

with the Freeform Funky Freqs (Grant Calvin Weston, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Vernon Reid) at Big Ears 2025 in Knoxville, TN back in March 2025.

Another snippet of Marisa Anderson at Big Ears in Knoxville, TN in March 2025 because I read an interview just now with a Scottish guitarist who mentioned her. (Milwaukeeans should be on the lookout for her to show up in town in the Spring)

with Marisa Anderson at Big Ears in March, 2025.

Pretty much any time a famous person dies I compare their age to my own. “I guess if I were them I’d have x years left” or “whoa whoa I’m older than that guy.”

Wife’s studio CD player not playing CDs. I have been asked to fix it. It’s older than both our kids #PhysicalMedia