Launching an app called Welp that just directs users to the nearest Sweetgreen or Panera
Ryan
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Chicago by way of St. Louis and Tacoma. Chiefly Dead and Phish for music; running the rest of the time. Attorney by trade. Let's get this show on the road.
@bourgwick Not in NYC, but there’s a vacant lot by my train station—about 200 feet of frontage—that makes the west approach to the station unusable for those in chairs or walkers. Have 311’ed it about a dozen times but I guess the City has other priorities smh
Chicago heads: Medeski, Nels Cline, Stanton Moore and Skerik are playing Garcia’s in March. The announcement flew under my radar so posting just in case others missed it.
On a mostly separate note, the last time I saw Skerik and Moore was at the Crystal Ballroom in 2002 with Chris Wood and Marco Benevento (clearest memory was a *slamming* Sabotage cover). I was catching the Slip’s PNW run and they were opening for Moore et al that night. I went to Slipbase tonight to check the setlists for those shows and saw they were missing even the venue for one of the run’s PDX shows. Anyone know how I can reach an admin? There’s no contact info on the site.
In more other news, did you guys know sugarmegs is still live?! It is! (Yes I was trying to fund recordings of that Slip run. No luck, alas).
At Burnham Harbor with my family with the Goose soundcheck from Northerly washing over us. Wife said “this guy sounds just like Sting” and damn I never realized but that is bang-on
Anyone in Chicago interested in going to Cold Waves fest at Metro on 9/27? Clipping is headlining. Just caught them in Madison last night and ready for more.
@clifff I understand YLT started with songs called Ohm and Sinatra something. I think there may have been guitar problems in Ohm? Guy was really going at it but I could just barely hear some S&E vintage Malkmus sneaking in the mix. The Sinatra song was great—gave me some vintage VU/Reed noise vibes. Next couple songs didn’t do a ton for me, but maybe remarkable because the keyboard player tipped his whole board and fell over? He was a sport about it.
Bummed I had to leave as early as I did.
@clifff What I saw of it was great, but unfortunately I had to leave about 5 songs into YLT :-/ I had never seen YLT before (still not really counting this as my first) and it had been about 20 years since I’d last seen B2S, so take these opinions with a grain of salt.
Doug still sounds great but it took them a couple tunes to really hit stride. By the time they got to The Plan (~4 songs) they were flying. (Also: the song was Randy Described Eternity). 1/2
Can anyone who was at Built to Spill / YLT last night in Chicago identify Built to Spill’s second to last song? It had a beat I couldn’t count to save my life and got extra sludgy toward the end? The folks around me didn’t know either ….
Longreads"Call it vigilante justice or guerrilla tactics, but there’s a sense of stalwart duty as the lab attempts to dismantle generative AI."
Kelley Engelbrecht for Chicago Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-great-ai-art-heist/
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I can’t get this out of my head. It shouldn’t be taken seriously.
There’s a part of the US Bankruptcy Code that provides for involuntary bankruptcies. At a high level, three creditors holding liquidated, non-contingent unsecured claims exceeding $10,000 can put a company into bankruptcy. Even a big one.
It would be disruptive but not fatal. It would probably also cause the publicly-traded stock to crash, which would be a problem for a founder of the company with significant margin debt.