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Writer, father, eater, lover of ham bands. [bridged from https://shakedown.social/@NatePHedi on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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My biggest takeaway from Geoff’s letter is that “the Organization” is real and Pete Shapiro is indeed the puppet master pulling all the strings. Why is Tom Hamilton in JRAD? The Organization! Why did Dopapod break up? The Organization! Why does Daniel Donato’s voice sound fine in-person but like […]

Driving home and a bird hit my windshield, probably a 7-8” crack. What’s the play here? $15 windshield repair goop? $900 out of pocket replacement? Bring my insurance into it ($500 deductible)?

Showed my kids Ferris Bueller’s Day Off tonight. HUGE hit! I love when movies I fell in love with as a kid still hit with my kids today.

Anyone know if Nugs does sales at any other point in the year besides Christmas? My brother wanted to get me a subscription, but I was hoping to save him a little cash.

Still collecting my thoughts about SML from last night, but holy moly was that a great show! Go see them if they come to your town.

Tonight: one of my fave sets of the Q1 2025 was the SML set at NY WJF, so what luck that they were playing in LA during my visit. This one was probably even better than the NYC show. Two sets of in-the-round perfection at Lodge Room. Slowly unfolding […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

If anyone has an extra ticket for SML at the Lodge Room tomorrow, my buddy needs a ticket and it looks like the show is sold out.

My wife hates jambands, so I’m not sure if this is a compliment or not.

Trey read this article and thought to himself, “We should cover Cinnamon Girl again this spring.” And nothing else. RE: https://heads.social/@fogelnet/114175364862198435

In terms of silver linings, when Canada becomes the 51st state, fourth tier jambands will start playing better shows there. So we got that going for us. RE: https://shakedown.social/@chopaganda/114172463513583603

I don’t want to say I’m the single best dad in the world, but I opted not to ski Mammoth today with 3.5 feet of untouched light powder up top, so I could take my kids to June so they could practice their turns on a mountain with no crowds. So yeah, I’m the single best dad in the world. Kids […]

Kids had the day off of school. Since we didn’t have childcare, I took a personal day and we went skiing. Got absolutely dumped on! My 7 year old usually hates the cold/wind/snow, but remarkably she was in great spirits all day - even during white-out conditions. It was a nice escape from […]

One time at the old Carrier Dome, I was peeing in a trough and Jim Morrison stumbled up next to me and peed all over my leg. At least, he said he was Jim Morrison. RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorkupstate/newyorkupstate.com-news-s21gdeenz/-/a-qSR16QOzQzy7ISLMsJ83Mw%3Aa%3A2830893583-%2F0

So I haven’t had a chance to listen to much of them yet, but it seems like folks on here think I should go see SML next week? Yes?

If you like #Severance you need to read The You You Are. The opening paragraph rivals anything Dickens ever wrote and it only gets better from there. Free download... https://reactormag.com/severances-self-help-book-the-you-you-are-is-available-for-download/

Snagged tickets to see all three nights of Phish at the Bowl on Cash or Trade tonight. All a good chunk under face. Average price was under $60 a ticket after fees - and two of the three nights I got decent (but not amazing) seats. Hope to see some of y’all there!

On the one hand, the Sphere is one of (if not the) coolest venues I’ve ever been to. On other hand, James Dolan is a fecal matter with an exoskeleton and some skin... https://www.sportico.com/business/finance/2025/sphere-entertainment-earnings-msg-networks-bankruptcy-warning-1234841453/

#Phish folks, if you got five minutes alone with Trey and had the chance to influence him, would you try to persuade him to do something about platinum tickets OR try to convince him to play a good David Bowie for the first time in 20+ years?

Perhaps I’m following the wrong people on Bluesky, but my feed is just one big doom scroll (and the occasional fart joke by @chris). I know everything is terrible and I get the urge to shout (into the void) about it from time to time. But fuck, even the comedy writers I follow are all doom and […]

Anyone on here have custom ear protection for concerts? I’ve been using Eargasm, but had a little tinnitus at a couple recent loud shows. Are customs worth the money? Recs?

I know people are furious at Trump, Vance, Musk, Rubio, Thiel, RFK Jr. etc, but in these dark times, I would urge you to make some extra room in your heart to add the egg producers using bird flu as a cover to price gouge, to the list of people you hate […]

My wife works for the Department of Agriculture, which (among many other things) helps deal with bird flu. People keep telling her that as an excellent employee in an agency that is front and center for a front and center problem, she won’t lose her job. But I’m starting to suspect that’s […]

[Severance discussion] I’m still shaking from tonight’s episode of #severance. I’ve worked in television for 20 years, so please believe me when I tell you that executing a show at this high of a level is exceedingly rare. Very few shows ever pull off an episode this good. Even fewer have […]