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You always had the eye- The 2001 version gave me a visceral flashback to when super-low-rise pants were everywhere for normal people for the first time.
But I also appreciate your skill improvements over time and how clean the modern piece looks.

Photo of giant screen on side of stage showing Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance half-kneeling while singing. Concert at Fenway Park, Boston, MA, 2025-09-07.

Photo of giant screen on side of stage showing Ray Toro of My Chemical Romance playing guitar and singing. Guitar is a Gibson Les Paul. Concert at Fenway Park, Boston, MA, 2025-09-07.

The second half was great- Songs from all the other albums and unreleased songs, with some storytelling mixed in. 3/3

It ends with huge stage fire effects I could feel in an upper balcony.
(This kind of dramatic misery to chew on tasted better when the highlight of their stage show was a rotating drum kit back during the Bush Administration. Which both feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago.)
2/N

Stage set up for My Chemical Romance at Fenway Park. Photo from an upper balcony seat.

Saw My Chemical Romance at Fenway Park. First half of the show was "Long Live the Black Parade"- Playing the concept album as if the band in the video survived 20 more years of that universe getting darker and more fascist, with video art and live acting interwoven. Very, very grim. 1/N

I parked at the Landmark Center Garage, which is under construction and the only open exit points back towards Fenway. 50 minutes to exit the garage. 45 more to reach Storrow Drive. But the show was worth it!

Nice! I'm looking forward to the surprise.

Thanks for the reminder! I just dug out my old eyeliner pots and tools. I can figure out if it's still good over the long weekend.

aw, I hope it was a good show!
My first MCR show was the first one they did after the food poisoning (Worcester, MA). I bought tickets off someone who wanted to see Muse, the headliner, who cancelled the whole rest of their tour and went back to the UK.

That's a known side effect- i got welts from it. Aligning the temperatures reduces it- bring the autoinjector to room temp and ice the site for 15 min before injecting.

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There's 2 dropdown screens now- pull diagonally from the upper right corner for those. I also hate this update.

New York State started by putting them only in school zones due to a quirk in the law. Seems like a reasonable way to get people used to them in a case where everyone expects sudden slowdowns and stops.

Yeah, when one Libertarian's pet project is domesticating bears by taming them with donuts (and mostly failing at it), the rest of them get distracted by being angry at the bear tamer.

Samsung phones have a known bug about this. Rebooting usually fixes it. (temporary mute/silence gets stuck)

Making waves - Marketplace What if we could harness the power of ocean waves to generate renewable energy? Plus, mega factory farms and small business hiring.

Today's NPR Marketplace has a horrible pun/innuedo. Kai (the host) closes a segment on farm pollution with:
"Kenny Torella at Vox! He covers livestock there. He writes about it too!"
www.marketplace.org/shows/market...

I don't trust PureBites freeze drying to kill anything, because I've seen fully rehydrated chunks of those treats in hairball barf and they are pink raw chicken sitting in the cat's stomach for long enough to matter.

Cat treat question- anyone have a non-raw replacement for PureBites freeze dried chicken treats? (Raw meat can spread H5N1.) Joan is currently eating a churu tube a day as a replacement and still unhappy. The other cats are fine with Temptations and similar junk food cat treats.

Yeah, sliding back down a hill hasn't happened to me since 2003 because I buy better cars and tires now. But the spinning wheels-throw it in 1st-gun it-slide backwards sequence took me right back. Physics in action!

It was weird, very slippery snow- I couldn't get my car up the hill to my house from a stop at the bottom. I ended up sliding/reversing back down and came at the street from another direction with more room. That got me enough momentum to get up the hill.

Chilli Garden in Medford closed! I need to know why!!! HOW

Probably these local guys, who will take out a window frame and use a crane if necessary.
www.deathwishpiano.com

YouTube video by NPR Music Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk Concert

Loved the very mellow Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk concert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOAI...
I know it's genes and childhood nutrition that produced the UK Dollybird generation, but how did it get to Billie looking like David Bowie and Phineas like Tom Waits? (Baby versions but look at the cheekbones!)

I love it when people complain to me directly about having too many cats in their timeline, as if I'm the bluesky cat czar and I have a giant cat content mixing board where I can adjust their personal cat levels.

Me, 2015: Carnegie was a complete shit who, with Rockefeller, invested in reforming public education into a means of conditioning children for factory labor.

Me, 2024: Eh, at least they believed in public education.

YouTube video by EddieAlda Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Single version 1974)

58. I get that this is, like, everybody's favorite song, but the first time I heard it, on vinyl, waking up on the couch after crashing overnight at the l0pht, it was redolent of the possibility of technology and the future and adult life.

Hozier is an Irish singer-songwriter resurrecting the tall, gaunt, mournful, and weird category that Tom Waits was in.

Joan, a black cat, on a suitcase on a stack of crates.

Joan decided that eating the suitcase treat was ok.

Joan, a black cat on an ottoman ignoring chicken treats.

Joan didn't eat the treats and wants to discuss the situation.

Stevie, a black cat on a twin bed between pillows.

Stevie ate the treats and has no idea what you're looking at her about.

Cat drama: high-value cat treat is Freeze-Dried Chicken Breast in small chunks.
Joan's on top of a suitcase on a stack of crates w/ 1 in front of her, staring w/ tail lashing. Stevie's lying belly-up on the guest bed with 3 under her paw and slow-blinking at me.
I have no idea what is going on.