Elbow is playing Washington, DC tomorrow night. I bought my ticket the day they went on sale. The last time I saw Elbow was… 2017? After the release of Little Fictions? That feels right. Yes, November 4th. It rained in Washington that evening, and I stood outside in the rain outside the 9:30 Club. LittleContinue reading “Elbow’s 2025 North American Tour”
Tag Archives: COVID-19
The Regime Restricts COVID Vaccines
Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration announced its new guidance on the COVID-19 vaccine. Per NPR: The agency is limiting the updated shots to people who are at risk for serious complications because they are 65 or older or have other health problems. Until now, COVID vaccines had been available to anyone 6 months andContinue reading “The Regime Restricts COVID Vaccines”
Anniversaries and Endings
Today marks my anniversary date at Diamond Comic Distributors. Eighteen years. Started on May 17, 2007. Yesterday, a number of people I work with were let go due to Diamond’s bankruptcy. I’d seen the news that the sale—Ad Populum, the owners of Graceland, had bought Diamond’s assets—on Facebook. I read the press release, and thereContinue reading “Anniversaries and Endings”
March 1844, 2020
Five years ago today Diamond’s office shut down for COVID and went work-from-home. Tomorrow, bids for Diamond’s assets are due to the bankruptcy court. When work-from-home started, I was writing the May 2020 catalog, which went unpublished. Yesterday, I began writing the May 2025 catalog. This has been the longest month. Before the COVID shutdown,Continue reading “March 1844, 2020”
The Loneliest Christmas Tree
There is a Christmas tree at the office this year, even though the office is quite deserted in these Omicron times. Since almost no one will have seen it, I’m sharing it. A little bit of Christmas. I didn’t even put up my own tree this year.
Writing My State Legislators
Last week I wrote letters to my Pennsylvania state legislators. Why? Because both were hopping mad that Governor Tom Wolf’s Department of Health had issued a statewide mask mandate in the schools to stem the rising tide of COVID-19 infections due to the Delta variant. They issued a press release. Like I said, hopping mad.Continue reading “Writing My State Legislators”
The Daily Cloud: September 6
Not a lot of cloud action today. I wondered if there were any point. I drove down to Loudon Park this afternoon, partly to see whether the exploded trees had been cleaned up in the last six weeks, mainly to see if the cemetery were flooded or not after the remnants of Hurricane Ida passedContinue reading “The Daily Cloud: September 6”
Elbow’s Forthcoming Ninth Album
Yesterday, Mancunian band elbow announced their ninth studio album, Flying Dream 1. According to the announcement email from the band, the album was “written remotely in the band’s home studios before coming together at the empty Brighton Theatre Royal to perfect, perform, and record the songs.” And the teaser video captures some of that. TheContinue reading “Elbow’s Forthcoming Ninth Album”
The Last Weekend of the Year on the Island
Where has summer gone? It seems like it was only days ago that I attended my first baseball game in a year and a half. Wasn’t it just yesterday that I attended my first baseball game in Lancaster? No. No, it was not. Those were in May and June. Labor Day is next week. HalloweenContinue reading “The Last Weekend of the Year on the Island”
Scenes from the Senators’ Opening Night
The last time I was on Harrisburg’s City Island for a baseball game — the fourth and final game of the 2019 Eastern League Division Series between the Harrisburg Senators and the Bowie Baysox — no one had ever heard of COVID-19. And I wasn’t visually impaired. Tuesday night, after something like 612 days, professionalContinue reading “Scenes from the Senators’ Opening Night”