The Taj Mahal Quintet @ Jazz Alley, Seattle 2025-11-28 #livemusic

🎵 Oscar Peterson, “Night Train” #nowplaying #music https://music.apple.com/us/album/night-train/1440761118

Pro app consumer tip: An annual subscription is effectively a lifetime subscription, & without monthly nags/reminders. If you don’t use it enough to feel worth renewing next year, don’t. Renewing is generally equivalent to version upgrades of yesteryear.

🎵 Sting, “Bring on the Night” #nowplaying #music https://music.apple.com/us/album/bring-on-the-night-live/1440770286

Happy Unclog the Sink and/or Toilet Day to all who celebrate!

🎵 Tuesday the Sky, “Indoor Enthusiast” #nowplaying #music Knew nothing about this beyond Apple Music recommending it, and enjoyed it. Listened a few times before discovering it’s a Jim Matheos solo (+friends) project, which makes sense. But now I want new OSI, too […]

It seems one of the first Sonos speakers I bought, a Play:3, has died. Powers up and appears in my device list, but I can’t get anything to play on it and volume slider is not available in controller apps. The other night I did get it to group with another speaker and play that music, but still […]

play the grindr notification noise at Christmas dinner to see which conservative relatives panickedly check their phone ringer

You *need* Reveal. Simple as that. https://indieapps.space/@reveal/115623924043984270

We secretly replaced their pumpkin spice with Old Bay. Let’s see if they notice.

For when you want to sprinkle your cinnamon sticks evenly, I guess.

🎵 Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’, “Room on the Porch” #nowplaying #music Taj has been making music longer than I’ve been alive. 🤯 Saw him perform last Friday, and doing it again tomorrow night. So good. 🥰 https://tajmahalblues.bandcamp.com/album/room-on-the-porch

To all of you out there who, like me, will be celebrating their first #thanksgiving without a loved one: You got this. 💜 Scale back what you can, don’t feel pressured to do all the same things you did together. Find time to breathe and give thanks for the time you had with them.

🎵 Glen Kolyadin, “Mobula” #nowplaying #music https://glebkolyadin.bandcamp.com/album/mobula

Mail call delivered some happy international mail today: @MarkAllardWill’s “Photo-Illustration” and @chrisbaldie ‘s “Space Captain: Captain of Space” (original issue for size comparison)

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Wizard Zines is doing another Big Zine Sale again this year on Friday, November 28th! One day only. here’s a google calendar link for the duration of the sale if you want a reminder: https://wzrd.page/cal (or an ICS link: https://wzrd.page/cal.ics)

🎵 Robert Glasper Experience, “ArtScience” #nowplaying #music https://music.apple.com/us/album/artscience/1440834038

🎵 Barend Tromp, “Odd Time Concepts” #nowplaying #music https://barendtromp7d.bandcamp.com/album/odd-time-concepts

I grew up believing you needed a serrated knife for cutting tomatoes, but I now know there is nothing like a nicely sharpened chef’s knife slicing through like butter. 👨‍🍳

🎵 Galerie Stratique, “Certaines Esquisses” #nowplaying #music https://galeriestratique.bandcamp.com/album/certaines-esquisses

🎵 Trevor Strong, “Too Many Songs About Cats” #nowplaying #music Pay what you want. 🤑 #cats #catstodon https://trevorstrong1.bandcamp.com/album/too-many-songs-about-cats-3

Washington Commanders owner: “Seriously? We just got done removing our racist names!”

Spent a good part of yesterday afternoon filtering my wishlist into the cart for #BandcampFriday then started to cull *that* to something reasonable before realizing this month wasn’t a BCF. By that time I was already looking forward to hearing some of them, so culled that to “essentials” (2 […]

So comfortable to need to book a flight for an upcoming funeral. 😨

I can’t get it out of my head how the Lincoln bathroom renovation looks “Designed for Incontinence”, just hose it down when “someone” loses control. 😵‍💫

🎵 John Hiatt & Jerry Douglas, “Leftover Feelings” #nowplaying #music https://music.apple.com/us/album/leftover-feelings/1553981379

My friend Kenny just opened the beta for his new digital #comics shop! 🎉 https://sweetshop.app/join/JHzUwI

Our first power outage since installing our #Ecoflow system (after going 40hrs without power thanks to last year’s “bomb cyclone”) and it worked like a champ: 105 minutes without blinking. Hell yes.

🎵 Troublemakers, “Express Way” #nowplaying #music https://music.apple.com/us/album/express-way/690475812

🎵 Crack the Sky, “Crack the Sky” #nowplaying #music Discovering a #kickstarter campaign for a 50th anniversary documentary made me realize I’d only dipped into their music a while ago and should give another listen. I don’t know what the 1975 original sounded like, but this 2002 remaster […]

I can’t be the only one whose first thought was, “Did someone shoot him in the face?” …can I? 🫢

🎵 Exit North, “Harm / Terms” #nowplaying #music https://exitnorth.bandcamp.com/album/harm-terms

Little I like more than a site that requires email validation when trying to log in via an in-app browser (such as within Ivory). 😠

Code that works is valuable, even if it’s not pretty.

Pretty sure my wallet was happier not knowing Inside Out was on Bandcamp. And many of the albums are 24-bit. 😳

🎵 Lunatic Soul, “The World Under Unsun” #nowplaying #music New Lunatic Soul! 🥳🥰 https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-under-unsun-24-bit-hd-audio

Never change, autocarrot, never change. 🤡

I don’t really need the bandwidth at the moment, but 2Gb service is $15 less/mo than the $90 I was paying for 1Gb (only $5 more after initial year) so I couldn’t resist. Had to buy an SPF+ module for the UDM-Pro but it switched over pretty seamlessly.

🎵 “Power Pop Essentials” Playlist #nowplaying #music This playlist is soooo good, including original versions of songs I’d never known were covers. Just play it with Sound Check if you can, the levels are all over the place […]

🎵 El Vez is coming for a Merry Mex-Mas show! Had to listen to Graciasland and Mexican Radio to celebrate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5h92dlrGw

Pro football teams should be required to attempt At least one trick play per game to be eligible for the win. Treat those “ineligible wins” as half a point in the standings.

I really need to start framing and hanging some of my art. Just received this commission from Nate Powell and it’s too beautiful to store in a folio. #comics #originalart

“So come now, Children of the Beast / And shout at the Devil!”

TIL Merv Griffin sang “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” 🤭 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_Got_a_Lovely_Bunch_of_Coconuts

🎵 King’s X, “It’s Love” #nowplaying #music “I just had to let you know” https://music.apple.com/us/album/its-love/301027653?i=301027790

Holy shit. Some people seem to need a serious coughing on. https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115406500760119221

Pro tip: Start your week off with an early morning endocrinologist appointment telling you your bloodwork looks great and you can continue reducing-to-discontinuing your insulin injections. 🥳

Orange Goats Flying Press is definitely orange. 😁