alice phoebe lou at webster hall

 alice phoebe lou brightly shines at webster hall

photo: lexi yob

mitski at the shed

 mitski launches six-night residency with a new album and big dose of love

photo: joe papeo

mavis staples at beacon theatre

mavis staples leaves them wanting more

photo: ellen qbertplaya

goodreads fade away

it's taken me a few years to migrate away from goodreads since its ownership by amazon.  i joined close to its inception when a friends told me their friends at stanford started the app back in 2007. 

i loved keeping track and cataloging past reads, while sharing them with my fellow bookworms. a friend told me about storygraph over 5 years ago, but the idea of migrating all the books, reviews and notes seemed daunting.  i started the process back in 2021, but only completed the upload of my goodreads data to storygraph earlier this year. it was relatively painless, and i got one of my core goodreads bookworms to convert as well. this is probably the hardest thing to let go. bookworms that aren't ready to migrate to a new platform.  i do like storygraph for the more clean interface and the ability to rate by quarter stars.  game changing. 

gregory alan isakov at rcmh

gregory alan isakov and colorado symphony make sweet music at radio city music hall 

photo: katie daddaria

niners win!

 

i'm still coming off all the emotions of last night's game.  george kittle down in the first half with an achilles tear. OUCH! niners can't ever have a game where a major player doesn't go out.  it was looking grim, but the d was keeping us in it. resilience is the key word of this season. there was a fab trick play, where jauan jennings threw to christian mccaffery for a touchdown. a throwback to super bowl LVIII. so here we are headed to seattle next weekend.  win or lose i'm proud of these boys for this gritty season.  can the magic continue one more weekend? we should have trent but down kittle. it would be great to have ricky pearsall back, but it was great to see demarcus robinson step up. anyhow, it's deffo been a bang bang niner gang season.

niners WIN

 

photo: san francisco 49ers X

what a game! in the second half, i was ready for them to lose to save themselves from another fight saturday with the seahawks. kittle was out.  trent williams was out early in the first. upton stout was out in the third. ricky pearsall also exited briefly in the first. honestly, just wanted the team to come out with minimal injuries.

the game was a shoot out with touchdown after touchdown. the early pick six was rough and it would haunt us.  it felt like the previous colts game where traded touchdowns but last night it continued to the final minutes.  i was impressed by our young defense to close out the bears, who are known to come from behind in the final seconds. we were able to shut them down. 

looking to saturday, it will be another tough defense but with our red hot offense is it enough? it's funny the niners made the super bowl with some of our strongest defensive groups and loss. i've always favored defense over offense but if we keep putting up these numbers this might be the path to the lombardi?  i'm thinking to far ahead though.  we won't have bosa or warner, like we did when we beat them early in the season. kittle left early that game and jake tonges caught the winning touchdown. we also still had jake moody as our kicker back when. we are different teams.  i would argue better offense, but a heavily short strung defense. this defense has done wonders despite its handicaps. fred warner was on the field for the final minutes and gave the defense a pregame speech.  he will likely do soon saturday too.  there's rumblings that he might be available if the niners make a late playoff run.  that's something to play for the captain.