Once again, I’m taking a long weekend (use-or-lose leave, planned gig didn’t work out), so I’m tossing this out there on Thursday again, because while I may be on a computer, I don’t want to feel like I *have* to be on a computer, even though these are totally arbitrary self-imposed obligations, but whatever.

Other than some weird sleep issues I won’t bore you with, it’s been a relatively uneventful week personally. I had a bunch of meetings cancelled (yay), but stayed just busy enough to make it go by relatively quickly. I’ll take it.

On the external front, it’s been politics (as one would expect being less than a week out from a presidential election) – I even got involved a bit – look down a bit, you’ll find my endorsement post. I’ve also gotten mildly caught up in the World Series business. Not enough to actually watch the games on tv, but enough to keep up with the events of the day, and to enjoy seeing the Cubs break their 108 year streak. It was kind of cool. Not as cool as baseball in the ballpark (which is an experience I really love that can’t be replicated on television no matter how hard anybody tries), but cool in a historic sort of way that fits baseball’s inherent sense of nostalgia. Anyway, congrats, Cubs, you only missed Back to the Future: Part 2 by a year!

As for the weekend, Doctor Strange is definitely happening, likely tomorrow. I’ve been waiting for this thing for way longer than the original announcement of this movie. I’ve been tracking all the weird aborted attempts at making this since at least 2008 in this space, if my search function is to be believed. I just dig Doctor Strange, to the point that I put an order in for the newly-released DVD of the ’78 tv movie starring Jessica “Mallory Archer” Walter as Clea that should be in my hands tomorrow. Anyway, an old friend of mine out west managed to catch a preview screening this earlier this week and says it’s got the same feeling seeing The Matrix for the first time back in ’99, which I consider high praise.

Other than that, we’re looking at diving into college applications (both admissions and financial aid), which might be a little stressful, but necessary. I don’t know what else. All I know is that I’m not going back to work until Tuesday, and I have Dweezil Zappa tickets for Sunday night!

Also – while I won’t be there (sixteen hour round trip for very little guaranteed playing time), my bandmates and a bunch of other cool wrock folks will be in Atlanta for ConJuration 2016, which should have some cool stuff to enjoy if you’re in the area.

Here’s this week’s pandora pull- try listening to #2 and #3 back to back sometime; it’s a weird transition, as their underlying riffs are very similar (other than the minor/major), it’s eerie, kind of like this. In any case, this list came out interestingly, sounding, with few exceptions, like my heavy-rotation record collection in 1989:

1. “Wig Wam Bam” – The Donnas
2. “Dream On” – Aerosmith
3. “Eternal Flame” – The Bangles
4. “Bad Medicine” – Bon Jovi
5. “Pumped Up Kicks” – Foster the People
6. “The Drama You’ve Been Craving” – Sleater-Kenney
7. “Dimetrodon” – The Doubleclicks
8. “Sweet Child o’ Mine” – Guns ‘n Roses
9. “Jesse’s Girl” Rick Springfield
10. “Seventeen” – Winger
11. “Youth Gone Wild” – Skid Row

Okay fine, I’ll keep doing the “random eleven” at least for this week, if only because, surprising no one at all, Millie Bobby Brown will be back for season two.