Well that’s pretty much everything fucked now.

*Why* should it take nearly 2 GB of RAM to open an #ArcGIS #Dashboard? And sit on 15% of my CPU, without me doing anything? heaven forbid I attempt to interact with it.

spent the day yesterday in palo alto/menlo park taking in the very few still-standing #GratefulDead sites (& lots of ghost buildings) with native tour guide @Corry342, a wee thread. magoo's in menlo park, where the warlocks played wednesdays in may 1965, soon to reopen as a cocktail bar. /1

the mckernan family homestead in far eastern palo alto (at the border of east palo alto), where pigpen grew up. home of noted R&B DJ phil mckernan. plus the highway overpass that gave teenage pig his entrance point into the Black neighborhood of east palo alto. #GratefulDead /2

one of jerry & sara garcia's residences on bryant court in palo alto, just off the main street, where the warlocks supposedly rehearsed in the garage (not visible here). /3

the former st. michael's alley, cafe hangout spot for garcia, hunter, trist, lesh, pigpen, etc.. a site of much action in hunter's "new" book "the silver snarling trumpet" #GratefulDead /4

perry lane in menlo park, the block-long street where ken kesey & other graduate writing students & proto-pranksters lived, kesey's backyard abutting alan trist's house, where teenage jerry garcia sometimes crashed. (technically, perry avenue.) /5

Don't threaten us with a good time

#ElonMusk #Twitter #Meme

Amongst the many things that will no doubt cause me anxiety this week will be a plethora of badly designed election maps.

Paying tribute to Phil Lesh on the latest Brokedown Podcast episode, out today. A few friends contribute their thoughts and stories and I selected a lot of great music. The musical segments cover only a fraction of what Phil gave and will always mean to all of us but, hopefully they feel like a hug to see you through.

Listen on your favorite podcast app or via the link below.
#podcast #GratefulDead #PhilLesh

https://brokedownpodcast.blogspot.com/2024/11/133.html

Today my book was published. By myself but not bad huh https://amzn.to/3CeE3Jq

It is difficult to put words to this loss. Phil Lesh was unique in so many ways. His quest for the sound has ended, but the legacy of his vision will continue on. That great Darkstarathon is always playing through us all, waiting for it's moment to rise and shimmer once again.

I offer this compilation I made a couple of years ago in tribute to Phil. Fifty-four glorious hours of Dark Star in one continuous piece. D/L the MP3 or FLAC.

https://archive.org/details/the-majestic-star

#GratefulDead #DarkStar #PhilLesh

Some of my favorite Phil Lesh music happens here starting about ten minutes in, before the lyrics, but no need to skip ahead. Relax. Stream or download lossless:
#GratefulDead

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3vNnE6l_pt_4NvSH69kNRtDhTjRrd4B/view?usp=drivesdk

OK I knew you could mute words but didn't realise that on this lovely app that instead of making those toots just vanish, you can force them to be tucked behind your own custom content warning, for example 'orange twat'. I like it here.

I was born a male. I identify as a male. But according to Tesco's Sticky Toffee Pudding, I am a family of four.

I miss Steve Silberman already. I loved having him in my Mastodon feeds every morning. #RIP

“Drums/Space is my religion!” In tribute to the recently departed Steve Silberman, here's 10+ hours of Drums/Space.

https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/760790981576736768/grateful-dead-drums-and-space-percussion-and

@wharf_rat like a lot of what happened at Veneta, I think this version is excellent, and quite notable for shaking the foundations loose a little so to speak, without being my specific favorite. I feel like they came out of that show with somewhat expanded horizons for China Rider, Bird Song and especially PITB above all. Dark Star is more in line with the ongoing evolution of that piece, much less an outlier than some of the others

The Veneta pictures always kill me because Bill has a tiny kit, Garcia has a wahwah and a dream, and Lesh has a bass the size of a kitchen island with 73 knobs. #gratefuldead

@elaine1helen At least they didn’t use “so-called experts”