In high school we had a game in Gym called volleybaseball where it was essentially indoor baseball played by punching a volleyball. It was a blast. I was never the most athletic and was sort of a guaranteed out when I’d come up to bat; except one time I really got a hold of one and sent it for a sure home run…

Carpenter bees are bad, I’ll admit... however, we had these fuckers at my house last summer:

I mean what pitcher wouldn’t want a 2,502.00 ERA?

In Architecture school I sat behind a kid in construction lecture who would spell steel as steal every time in his notebook. “Steal beams” etc. I never had the heart to correct him.

Searching “colon GIF” to attach to this post turned up some truly horrifying things, so suffice to say this space would otherwise have contained his HR, and/or helmet spinning off, and/or the behind-the-back flip to 1b.

Because Chicago is regularly below freezing and rather windy, on April nights?

scha - den - freu - de

the new Car Seat Headrest is SO FUCKING GOOD I CANT BELIEVE IT. Beach life in death at over 13 min? Bodys? yess gimmie.

Saw AB last month, he busted out Scythian Empires, I was so happy. That piano hook!

the entire album, man. roland > Excitable Boy > Werewolves

When I saw SD a couple years ago, they opened with Black Cow and when Fagan started singing it just HITS you... holy shit, it’s really THEM.

You better watch out! There might be dogs about!

Steely Dan, Aja - Black Cow > Aja > Deacon Blues

We saw Cake at Starland (NJ) in about 2007ish and John McCrea spent literally over HALF of their 55 minute set (including encore) doing stupid banter/audience participation nonsense. At one point they gave away a ficus tree to someone in the audience. Like, c’mon dude all I want to hear is Italian Leather Sofa. Shut…

I enjoy/respect the jam scene (have seen Umphrey’s about a dozen times, String Cheese a couple, K-Dub over 20, Phish exactly once) and MAN oh MAN have the fans (and phans) become super awful in the intervening years since the early aughts when I got into it. The last Umph show I went to at the Stone Pony a couple…

“Now, they have ‘hush puppies’ here, which you may be more familiar with as a ‘knish’ or a ‘beignet’...”

Oh my I didn’t realize there were other people who were fans of/even knew about Camel!

At least its a Union break. Non-unions suck to heal and are the tool of our oppression by the corporate overlords.