Brooks

Brooks

@brooksw.bsky.social

StL I am very handsome and cool. Any typos are definitely on purpose.

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My youngest is hanging on the couch and playing Roblox while the Phish stream is going. Caught him singing along to Waste and my heart is full.

I’m seeing Minus The Bear tonight. Asked random dude that looks about my age, “Is where the cool dudes are hanging out?” And he didn’t make fun of me. #winning

I’m about to crawl into bed when my 8 year-old walks up and tells me he’s had a pencil eraser stuck in his ear since lunch. So now we’re at the emergency room.

I’m enjoying my Sunday morning coffee and reading ritual. Today it’s Pola Oloixarac’s 2019 novel Mona, translated from the original Spanish by Adam Morris. Coffee is an excellent Colombian Geisha roasted and prepared by Upshot Coffee in Cottleville, MO. #booksky #coffeesky

My wife, a former gymnast: those guys are gonna damage their knees jumping like that… 😂

Scott Marks@bizarchive.bsky.social

The second MSG ripple effect: the Mike's Song trampolines have returned to stay.

Sunday morning with a cortado and a book. Featuring Hôtel Splendid by Marie Redonnet. Translated from the original French by Jordan Stump. #booksky

Even I, someone who usually scoffs at conspiracy theories, think there’s something fishy about all of these “assassination attempts.”

Billy Breathes is my very favorite Phish album. To my ears it's nearly perfect. But imagine, for a moment, that they'd left off Cars Trucks Buses and replaced it with Strange Design. Voila, perfect album.

Wait, so I’m supposed to wear a blue Post-it note so people know that I’m not anti-Semitic? Is this just a plot by 3M to boost sales of their sticky paper?

That Savannah Guthrie video is both genuinely heartbreaking and deeply weird. It comes across like something out of an A24 horror movie.