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While I was in Chicago last week, I took a field trip out to the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield.

The Kinzie Street railroad bridge at day’s end in Chicago.

In the men's room at DjangoCon US 2026.

Time to dump a bunch of browser tabs that recently broadened my understanding of the times we're living through.

Sometime in 2021, my wife (who grew up in Denver) squealed while reading news on her phone and said to me, "Oh my God, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are buying Casa Bonita," to which I replied, "What's Casa Bonita?"

Carleen and Matthew, August 2024.

I am here to testify that Cuban jazz pianist Omar Sosa (far left in the photograph above) and his Quarteto Americanos blew the proverbial roof off the dump at the Freight in Berkeley last night.

For all the usual reasons, I have of late resurrected my daily meditation practice.

My maternal grandmother is still alive and kicking at 98.

I did a lot of Supreme Court Watching here in 2024, and then skipped it entirely in 2025 because I found the topic too depressing.

A no-cameras policy was in fact being strictly enforced, so this is my one surreptitious shot of Dylan performing.

I always figured that seeing Alabama Shakes live would verify my suspicion that band leader Brittany Howard is an absolute fucking force of nature.

Echo & the Bunnymen rocked the Masonic Auditorium in SF last night.

Anthony Daniels recounted at some length how he wasn’t particularly interested in portraying a robot until he saw this concept painting by Ralph McQuarrie.

When we saw TV on the Radio at the Fox last fall, SF-based Mild Universe opened.