Conrad Life Report

Topics: neighborhood report, stoop hangs, watering the school garden, Dolce Brooklyn, Nicky's Unisex, Roger Waters at Madison Square Garden, trip to New Haven, Old Heidelberg, Ordinary, Modern Apizza, Norwalk Cove Mini Golf, first day of school, Sunny's, Strong Rope Red Hook, Live at Gilley's by Kris Kristofferson, Eight Freedoms by New Freedom Sound, How Do You Burn? by Afghan Whigs, I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos by Lou Reed, Back On The Road To You by Freedy Johnston, The Individualist: Digressions, Dreams, and Dissertations by Todd Rundgren.

Topics: Neighborhood report, Ruthie's, pizza at Lee's Tavern on Staten Island, F&F Pizza, Baby Luc's Pizza, Staten Island FunPark, Shipwrecked mini golf, Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Pier 17, Rage Against the Machine and Run the Jewels at Madison Square Garden, Jacob Riis Park/Rockaway Beach, Crown Heights Armory, Crown Heights Cafe, Bourbon Bros meetup, stoop hangs, Success by Oneida, Freakout/Release by Hot Chip, Heartmind by Cass McCombs, Chopper by Kiwi Jr, Saturday Night in San Francisco by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco de Lucia, The Music Never Stops by Peter Shapiro.

Topics: Smith Street Pizza, trip to Rhode Island, Fox Farm Brewery, Little Narragansett Bay boat ride, illness in house, I Get Wild + Stuart Bogie at Littlefield 7/29/22, trip to Maine, Marlborough, MA hotel, Biddeford Mills Museum, Back Cove Trail, The Holy Donut, Crescent Beach, Kennebunkport, Old Orchard Beach, Palace Playland, Bissell Brothers Brewing, spreading ashes, Maine Beer Company, LL Bean, Scales, Tree House Brewing, Barker Character, Comic, and Cartoon Museum in Cheshire, CT, Modern Apizza in New Haven, Holy Diver by DIO, Logger Hero by Wu-Lu, From the New World by Alan Parsons, The Other Side of Make-Believe by Interpol, Earl's Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath 1970-1980, Birds in the Ceiling by John Moreland, Waiting For Columbus by Little Feat, Into the Groove by Mickey Hart/Planet Drum, Old-Time Folks by Lee Bains and the Glory Fires, Build by Tony Fadell, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman.

Topics: Neighborhood report, backyard hangs, 33 1/3 The National: Boxer at Rough Trade, City Island, 239 Play, Turtle Cove Mini Golf, Rockaway Beach, Flower + Martha's Vineyard Ferries at Mama Tried, David Lemieux, Dead and Company at Citi Field, out of town visitors, dehydration, Bar Bruno, Bar Great Harry, stoop hangs, F&F Pizza, Voice of Chunk by the Lounge Lizards, Tremblers and Goggles By Rank by Guided By Voices, The Rules Have Changed by 3.2, Giant Palm by Naima Bock, Rachel@Fairyland by Rae Morris, Household Name by Momma, Toast by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The History of Bones by John Lurie, Build by Tony Fadell.

Topics: Dobbs, neighborhood report, backyard and stoop hangs, Oliver annual checkup, new Delta headhouse/terminal at LaGuardia, trip to Boulder, Dead and Company at Folsom Field, altitude effects, Uber/Lyft prices, last day of school, American Museum of Natural History, Hayden Planetarium, Woodstock, Saugerties Lighthouse, C'mon C'mon, The Kids in the Hall, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Steve Reich: Reich/Richter by Ensemble Contemporain, The Resurrection of Rust by Elvis Costello, Farm to Table by Bartees Strange, The Spur by Joan Shelley, 'Carolina' by Taylor Swift, Home Before and After by Regina Spektor.

Topics: Trip to Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, Liberty Bell, Princeton, Princeton Record Exchange, Golden Touch, stoop visits, roof hangs, Fragole on Court Street, Walter's in Fort Greene, The History of Bones by John Lurie, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+, 'Flicted by Bruce Hornsby, Harry's House by Harry Styles, Sitting Off the Edge of the World by The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Big Time by Angel Olsen, Versions of Modern Performance by Horse Girl, From Capelton Hill by Stars, We've Been Going About This All Wrong by Sharon Van Etten, Roscoe's Dream by Mapache, Old and in the Way, Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello.

Topics: Uvalde, friends in the hood, Threes Brewing, F&F Pizzeria, solo parenting weekend, stoop hangs, canceled I GET WILD shows, school fundraiser, Commonwealth, Other Half Rockefeller Center, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+, Palomino by Miranda Lambert, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar, This is a Photograph by Kevin Morby, Blood Orange by Poster Paints, Cruel Country by Wilco, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Topics: Neighborhood report, recital, Black Forest Brooklyn, Tacos Casamigas, Alamo Drafthouse, Golden Touch Car Wash, Coney Island, The Cyclone, twenty-five years in NYC, Swift Hibernian Lounge, B Bar, Morningside Heights, Finback Brewery, WingBar, Kentucky Derby, (watch my moves) by Kurt Vile, A Bit Of Previous by Belle & Sebastian, WE by Arcade Fire, 33 1/3: Boxer by Ryan Pinkard.

Topics: Liberty Science Center, Blue & Black on Court Street, Wilco at the United Palace Theater, Uptown Garrison, Le Cheile, West 181st Street, trip to Austin, running trails, Veracruz All Natural, Jo's Coffee, South Congress, pool party, The Meteor, Electric Six + Volk at the Continental Club, Guero's Taco Bar, Kalahari Resort in Round Rock, Lazarus Brewing, Zilker Brewing, Latchkey, Meanwhile Brewing, End of an Ear, The ABGB, Golden Goose, The Carpenter, masks at airports and on airplanes, Hot Tuna at Carnegie Hall, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Good and Green Again by Jake Xerxes Fussell, Everything Was Beautiful by Spiritualized.

Topics: Neighborhood report, COVID numbers, Commonwealth in Park Slope, Wingbar on Smith Street, Henry Public, out of town visitors, continued return to office, Rough Trade, Other Half Rockefeller Center, Savak at Littlefield, Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall, Wet Leg by Wet Leg, Live In New York City February 8 1975 by Alan Braufman, Terror Twilight by Pavement, The Bear by Walter Martin.