On the first night of Shopify Summit 2024, we were treated to a trio of performances in a privately-opened Budweiser Stage in Toronto, Canada. The Roots put on a great opening act - almost a continuous set with brass players on stage. Weezer played the hits, and you can’t help bu … | Continue reading
I haven’t had analytics on this site/blog in many years, but as I’m trying to use it more to engage with the rest of the Internet, I’m finding myself wondering: What has been helpful for people? How are they getting here? To that end, I’m experimenting with some simple analytics … | Continue reading
Statham and The Rock insult each other for a while and then fly like superheroes in slow motion. Heavy use of the split screen. All for good fun. | Continue reading
Inspired by Manu’s guestbook, I’ve created my own. | Continue reading
I’ve loved each of his albums, reeling guitar licks and melodies that make you swirl your head. I showed up early to get a good spot and it was already packed and sweaty on an 85° night. But I was attending by myself so I was able to stand in the good spot in the back on the plat … | Continue reading
I like talking long walks on Sunday. It rests me a bit and rejuvenates my connection to the neighborhood. | Continue reading
I’ve really enjoyed listening to Bonobo in the past, and so when he announced a DJ set at the opening of a new venue down the street - Outset - I jumped at tickets. Sadly, the day of the show they moved it to Concord (a venue I still love, but not the launch I was hoping for), an … | Continue reading
Doris Day was not given enough in this one - she is commanding. Is James Stewart the Ryan Reynolds of the 1950s? They’re both only ever one character, it seems. This film ends too abruptly. I think there are like 2 minutes of film after the climax. | Continue reading
This weirdly was able to capture the sense of a short story (it’s based on one), which is unique - but also made it feel strange to watch as a full movie? Usettling. | Continue reading
Just some fantastic, patient comedy and bombastic, pulsing physicality. Well worth the ride. | Continue reading
Last week I dropped support for webmentions on this site. I had implemented support for them around a year ago through a pairing of webmention.io to receive them and my own custom GitHub Actions script to parse my posts and send them to supporting servers. | Continue reading
This festival replaced Heatwave - an incredible misnomer that brought 45ºF weather in June 2023 - but it’s basically the same thing. This year we had rain instead of cold, so our shoes and clothes took a beating. Luckily the shows were great and we got to ride around on carnival … | Continue reading
This film does an amazing job at retaining doubt throughout an evolving plot, after the fall in the second scene. It’s hard to keep the audience balanced for so long, and it felt unsettling to be kept perched that way. There was so much tension in every mundane scene: the romanti … | Continue reading
We got there an hour before the show to get a good view and it was already packed. I’ve seen them several times before (most recently at Re:SET) this but that’s exactly why I wanted a good spot - because I knew how good it could be with a view. There was no opener. A strong stanc … | Continue reading
I watched this director’s earlier film, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, on my own years ago. I knew what to expect: something patient and ethereal, with some unsettling bits that leach into your mind. I was hoping this one would be a bit more aggressive/scary, but instead I … | Continue reading
We traveled to Brooklyn for the weekend to see our friend Maddie premiere her Off-Broadway show: Twenty-Sided Tavern. | Continue reading
After eating a glorious smoked chicken and pineapple and asparagus dinner, we watched the most insane movie. What even are movies after this has been shown in the world? | Continue reading
Brandon and Matt came over for scary movie night. I was inspired by the spring sunshine and so I bought a mango and made a puree and then mixed it with some mezcal and citrus and orgeat and creme de banane and it was tasty along with our Thai food for dinner. In contrast to the s … | Continue reading
I’ve watched videos from Andrew Callaghan for years because I think he reports on the edges of society impartially. I live a bit of my old journalism life vicariously through his work. I support his work financially, though I don’t always recommend it for others. It is really int … | Continue reading
Sidney Gish opened for the show and said, “let’s go guys” before starting each song, looping different sounds from her guitar and assembling them into a full ensemble over and over again. It was sublime. Jeff Rosenstock took the stage to a cover of Chop Suey! and then addressed t … | Continue reading
Rob invited us to this movie and we went in knowing nothing. I met Bill for a drink down at Code di Volpe beforehand and then we walked up to the Music Box and the line to get in was already the length of the block. For people with tickets already! It was sold out. There was some … | Continue reading
This has to be one of the top five shows in my life. The man was layering so many instruments at once: circular breathing to play the saxophone continuously through every song, microphones one the keys of the instrument so he can play them like percussion, a microphone taped to h … | Continue reading
We watched this while Becca cut Marybeth’s hair and Stephanie’s hair in our living room because the three of them had caught snippets of the original version playing on the bar TV while they hung out at Cobra Lounge last week and oh boy was there a lot of CGI fighting and punchin … | Continue reading
I wanted to have a scary movie night with Matt and Brandon and they noticed that Regal theaters in Chicago is doing mystery movie Mondays. You buy a $5 ticket to a 7pm showing of a revealed upcoming release. | Continue reading
This was a pretty good movie, but I don’t feel like I need to return to it. This would have made more of an impact on me when I was younger, but by now I’ve lived this multiple times. | Continue reading
I implored people to get tickets to their show when it was announced - their latest album was so good. We went with Paul and Dan and Walters and Ned bought a last-minute ticket as well. The show was so much fun! They broadened the songs where the crowd could jam out and layered s … | Continue reading
Recently, I’ve been talking with people about what we should identify as “tech debt”. | Continue reading
With Matt and Brandon over for scary movie night, I wanted ‘a good scary movie’ after the bad taste of Sick in my mouth. So we selected this cult classic from the ‘80s. | Continue reading
We watched the second installment with Nick and Stephanie and we all talked for hours afterward about the movie. It’s what great sci-fi should do. It’s not the best I’ve ever seen, but I really enjoyed this one. I enjoyed it more than the first; more always happens in the second … | Continue reading
Started this too late in the night (it’s soo long) but I enjoyed the film. Scorsese is a master film maker. | Continue reading
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I fell down this rabbit hole while trying to investigate some spammy account behavior on Narro. I've been running Narro as a SAAS application with a free trial for several years now, which means I have dealt with a lot of spam account creation. Every once in a while, when | Continue reading