“That is strength, boy! That is power! The strength and power of flesh! What is steel compared to the ham that wields it?”

Well, that's going to be an unpleasant travel day.

(btw "all 4" includes me)

The director of Racine's Lighthouse Marching Band choosing to Rickroll the Cudahy 4th of July parade on this particular 4th of July is epic!

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in July.

Man, the late 80s/early 90s indie scene had weird blind spots. I'd always heard that nobody liked this record because drum machine. But it was their second in a row with that, replacing a man who didn't play drums? Anyway I was never into JAMC back in the day for whatever reason, but this rips.

This is still holding true. I felt like I was in a tape mood during this most excellent day off, so I went digging through the stacks and came across my McCartney tape.

False Friday for some, yet still Thursday.

Just booked flight tickets for the first time since 2019.

More relevant with each passing day

TOMORROW

I guess it's Thursday.

On June 26, IfIHadAHiFi is playing again with Key of Evil, and are joined by Karl J. Palouček and Neptune. Neptune are a weirdo installation art-as-band trio who build their own instruments out of scrap metal. They are transfixing & we are stoked to have them back and YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THEM.

These snacks look delicious

Getting very annoyed at the level of corporate "we have caused a problem and now you get to fix it" I'm having to deal with.

Oh shit! I almost missed it, but it's still Thursday here!

LOGGINS!

Well, that was an intense drive home.

Good Thursday omen: pulled up behind a car with the license SLWMTL and a single Sabbath sticker for context.

I forgot about this one when it was going around, but: The Hold Steady opened for my band.

"Rico Nasty says dinosaurs aren't real" Uh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh (continues article) "Also she said Antarctica is fake" Ahhhhhhhhhhhhahahaha okay

Typically I don't DIY very DI-well, but when the assignment is "put casters on this box" I can manage it okay

It's a heavy one today. For me, for people I love, for a lot of people out there. Keep ham in your heart, we'll get through.

Inspirational calendar: Secret Goth edition

Fact.

By this point I cannot at all recall why the drunk/stoned guy yelled "TERRIFIC NEWS" at Sarah from Murder By Death (I think?) but that's another heraldic phrase that has stuck around.

Amongst Chicago buddies, "see you in a bit" became, speedily mumbled and then retranslated "see you in the pit." You can understand how this is used.

A bunch of friends and I were at a local bar, Von Trier, that has some split apart seating, in the back. One of us overheard a bro explaining where they'd be, "yeah, we're (blah blah blah.) GOOD LUCK FINDING IT!" And lo, GOOD LUCK FINDING IT has become a solid sendoff to any conversation.

Dunno how many of y'all 90's NPR nerds are out there, but if you remember Dr. Science SOMEbody just put up a bunch of audio on Archive

My Sunday is going nicely

If I'd known about this in the 00's I would have put together a hardcore band solely to fit samples of this between the songs on the demo

Good news for my friends: I'm anonymous. (I'm also nonsense, but you knew that already)

This is the only thing I'm ever going to say about this (because I'm not from Maine and I can't really do anything about it anyway) but, to me, it seems like the biggest issue here is that the Dems can't pick candidates for shit.

Tonight!! Get ready to show your belly for treats, our very own THE WIZARD is broadcasting from his eldritch tower in Milwaukee!! 9-2 Central twitch.tv/fuzzboxchicago

You have a moral obligation to steal *every* book, article, recording, film, mineograph, laserdisc, whatever, all of it, all of it. You have to steal it and you have to hide it. The more copies me make, the more we distribute the signal, the harder it will be fore them to kill our memory.

Spent way too long trying to clip out the proper amount of doggy dancing from the 2026 Crufts live stream today, but I got it done. Because I care. About dogs.

Semi-urban farm where I maintain a fleet of Tibetan Terriers. Not for sale. Just for me.

We're not calling Stephen Miller ugly because he looks ugly, it's because he IS ugly.

Very.

There is no part of this song that isn't a hook. The guitars, the bass, the drums, the vocals. Any bit of it can get stuck in your head.

SOCIAL MEDIA PROMPT FOR ENGAGEMENT #2 (more specific to my friends list): We all know our Bacon number, but what's your Futurist number? How many folks in the list are your friend? My number is 11. Yours may be way higher, but that's down to who you know and how you define friendship.

SOCIAL MEDIA PROMPT FOR ENGAGEMENT #1: Bands that have had trio and non-trio lineups that were better as the trio. For example: -Built to Spill -Modest Mouse There must be more, but I'm drawing a blank. Help me out.

Anyone else experiencing a Thursday?

The Fog Big Trouble in Little China In the Mouth of Madness They Live Halloween

It's windows open and listening to records a bit loud season, finally

So Peter Prescott said my band doesn't sound like anybody else. That's both incredibly gratifying (think of all the bands that guy's seen!) and complimentary, and also makes me look like way less of a doofus when somebody asks me what my band sounds like and I come up empty.