The block party is a summer tradition. Ours was on Saturday. While there was no bouncy castle, a staple of the Brooklyn block party, there were several other festivities. We just hung out on the stoop for a while and enjoyed chatting with the neighbors. We talked about lobbying for some more music programming at our end of the block next year. Maybe even a live show! I was also trying to recruit a couple people for the Friday jam sessions. I didn’t get a firm “yes” from anyone, but they didn’t say no–I’ll continue to work on them…

Speaking of the jams, this week’s wasn’t bad. We hammered through the playlist I sent out earlier in the week. The playlist keeps us on track and I hope that by rotating our growing repertoire through it that we don’t get bored by playing the same things too much or rusty by not playing some songs enough. I’m also loving the two client setup on with Jamulus. Just need to get our guitar/vocalist to do the same.

Bitter & Esters, Brooklyn’s homebrewing center of gravity at 700 Washington Avenue will be closing in October. While I don’t brew often, when I do, the ingredients and supplies come from these guys. They will be missed by many.

Links

• Social Q’s: Should a boat owner ask their friends to kick in some cash when spending a day on the water?
  The second question in this column is a stunner. I didn’t know people try to defray the costs of boat ownership by charging their friends.
• MTA pitches $65.4 billion capital plan to save mass transit in NYC
• Poisoning AI scrapers
• Repeating “after this week things will slow down” until you die, and tips for fixing it.
• These Brooklyn coffee shops are asking customers to stop tipping