Conrad Life Report

Topics: Neighborhood report, plane spotting, Planeview Park, LaGuardia Landing Lights, Hermon MacNeil Park, The Mounds, Idlewild Kayak Launch, North Woodmere Park, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Chrissy's Pizza, Andrew Bellucci's Pizza, Eric Bachmann in Chad's basement, Kimchee Kooks Kate's Kitchen, block party honky tonk stoop jams, Chappell Roan at Forest Hills Stadium.

Topics: Neighborhood report, trip to Korea.

Topics: Summertime, stoops hangs, roofs, backyards, beaches, pizza, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Brooklyn DOP Pizza, Rome to Brooklyn Pizza, Modern Apizza, Gui Steakhouse, Coney Island, Mr. Beet, Yerba Buena, Brooklyn Social, Dolce Brooklyn, tape night at Bar Great Harry, It's All Gonna Break at Nitehawk Cinema, The Invisible Dog on Bergen Street, 2A, Wussy at the Mercury Lounge, No Kings protest in Manhattan, trips to New Haven, 4th of July, Loose Lemons at King Tai Bar.

Topics: Neighborhood report, warmer weather, stoop hangs, Gowanus Yacht Club, running, Coney Island, Junior's Restaurant, Talea Brewing, the Red Caboose, Brado Pizza, Joe + Pat Pizzeria, Staten Island Railway, trip to Cincinnati, Reds vs Pirates, Badges Drum Shop, Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery, I Get Wild + Moral Kiosk at Littlefield, The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.

Topics: lost wedding ring, new subway map, The Airplane Shop in Fairfield, NJ, Colombo's Pharmacy in Middle Village, Queens, Oliver's first visit to Madison Square Garden, Knicks vs. Wizards, walks in Prospect Park and Central Park, subway adventures, New World Mall food court in Flushing, new open gangway G train cars, Great Jones Distilling, Rossi's Lounge, Insa, IT Adventures Ropes Course/Jordan's Furniture, Modern Apizza, Atticus Bookstore Cafe, Dogfish Head/Grateful Dead event, Bushwick's Dead at Brooklyn Bowl, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at Brooklyn Steel, The Bevis Frond at Baby's All Right and Night Club 101, +/- + Mark Robinson + Girl Scout Handbook at Littlefield, Father John Misty + Destroyer at Kings Theatre, I Get Wild at The Falcon, Royal American Social Aid and Pleasure Club at Mama Tried.

Topics: Toxic 2025 cont., Saturn Road, Record Shop, Cafe Volkan, Brooklyn Strategist, Bar Great Harry, Viva Mexico Tire Shop, Union Pizza Works, Relix Magazine 50th at Brooklyn Bowl, Taper's Choice, I Get Wild at Brooklyn Made, ENO, Burns Night, subway adventures, Boston, Pino's Pizza in Brookline, Green Line T, Stuart Murdoch at the Bell House, Dog Man.

Topics: social media, toxic 2025, optimism, trip to Hawaii, Zippy's, Hungry Ear Records, Kailua, Ko Olina, Yanagi Sushi, Million Restaurant, Ala Moana, Windward Mall, freeways, HNL airport gardens, Yo La Tengo at the Bowery Ballroom, New Year's Eve, A Complete Unknown.

Topics: Holiday season in New York City, visiting old haunts, Old Town Bar, Barcade, Tom and Jerry's, Jimmy's Corner, The Quays, Floyd, neighborhood closures, subway adventures, Holiday Nostalgia train, Mark Guiliana at Village Vanguard, Johnny Marr + JAMES at Brooklyn Paramount, Iron Maiden at Barclays Center, Stuart Bogie and Buck McDaniel at Church of Our Saviour, SML at Public Records, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Vanderbeekers Ever After by Karina Yan Glaser, Conclave by Robert Harris, Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, ed. Sam V.H. Reese.

Topics: Neighborhood report, back to school, Nate's Detroit Pizza on Court St, Tarrytown House Estate, Goosefeather, Bar Bete, Strong Rope Brewery, Gowanus Waterfront Park, Keen's Steakhouse, Doobie Brothers and Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden, Trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Eric Bachmann at Le Poisson Rouge, Jeff Rosenstock at Warsaw, Hamburger America, trip to Maine, Freeport, Old Orchard Beach, Biddeford, Yo La Tengo at Chad's house, Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr at Madison Square Garden, The National and the War on Drugs at Forest Hills, I Get Wild at the Falcon, the Mets.

Topics: Catching up, City Hall abandoned subway station tour, trip to Saratoga Springs, heatwaves, Bon Bon, One Girl Cookies, Cafe Volkan, Ace's Pizza, Daryl Hall + Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Radio City Music Hall, R-Cade/Barcade, Olympics watching, New Haven, Modern Apizza, IT! Adventures at Jordans Furniture, subway adventures, trip to St. Catharines/Niagara Falls, Beechwood Doughnuts, Oast Brewers, Wayne Gretzky Estates, Neil Peart Pavilion, Lakeside Park, Sunny's in Red Hook, There Was Nothing You Could Do by Steven Hyden, The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert, A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold.

Topics: Catching up, The Meat Hook, Automattic office, Lambchop and Sloppy Heads at Mama Tried, The Cyclone, Totonno's Pizzeria, Liam Gallagher John Squire at Brooklyn Paramount, Fastball at the Mercury Lounge, Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Forest Hills Stadium, Justin Vivian Bond at St. Ann's Warehouse, The Helm Family Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm Studios, Pixies and Modest Mouse at Forest Hills Stadium, Trans Canada Highwaymen at City Winery, Bonny Light Horseman at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Wilco at the Beacon Theater, The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow, Extremely Hardcore by Zoe Schiffer, Burn Book by Kara Swisher, Feel Free by Zadie Smith, The Vanderbeekers series, Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham

Topics: Neighborhood report, Harold Ickes Playground, running, subway adventures, Mardi Gras gig at Mama Tried, DJEAD Night at Broken Land, trip to Cincinnati, World Peace Bell in Newport, KY, trip to Austin, Diana Ross at ACL Moody Theater, Vikingur Olafsson at Carnegie Hall, Jonathan Richman at the Bell House, Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem, My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee, Sonic Life by Thurston Moore, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser.

Topics: Poconos, Kalahari Water Park, Station Bar in Woodstock, Phish at Madison Square Garden NYE, dduk guk New Year's Day, University of Michigan football, NOTEM planners, Humbled by the Void practice, MTA adventures, birthday parties, upcoming Mardi Gras 2/10 gig at Mama Tried, Maine Beer Co., Oh Me Oh My by Lonnie Holley, The Hypos S/T, Little Rope by Sleater-Kinney, Hometown to Come by Minwhee Lee, Selected Jambient Works, Vol. 1 by Country Sadness, Explosive Hits Vol. 1 by Trans-Canada Highwaymen, Orange Head by Black Grape, Saviors by Green Day, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Ramona and her Father by Beverly Cleary, The Gospel of the Hold Steady by Michael Hann, The Six Day War by Michael B. Oren.

Topics: holiday parties, Christmas carol singing, Cobble Hill Ballet's The Nutcracker at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Serafina Tribeca, Mates of State + Versus + Girl Scout Handbook + The Aislers Set at Littlefield, Yo La Tengo + The Aislers Set at the Bowery Ballroom, Madonna + Honey Dijon at Barclays Center, Jon Langford + Sally Timms at the Good Fork Pub, I Get Wild shows at Reservoir Studios, Littlefield, Colony Woodstock, John and Peter's New Hope, Gutenberg! The Musical at the James Earl Jones Theatre, birthday parties, Garcia Peoples at Bacaro, Bob Dylan at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore, Untable, Le Rock, Five Acres, Good Night in Woodstock, Gus's Chop House, Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden.

Topics: Neighborhood report, Tacos El Brother 3 truck, new places, Travel Bar, alternate side parking, living in NYC, Pavement at Brooklyn Steel, trip to Cincinnati, Zip's Cafe, Madtree Brewing, Rhinegeist, The National: Homecoming, Bartees Strange, The Walkmen, Patti Smith, Weyes Blood, Pavement, The National, making new friends, Peter Gabriel at Madison Square Garden, I Get Wild at the Falcon in Marlboro + The Cutting Room NYC, Velocity Girl at the Bowery Ballroom, Thai Diner, Epistrophy, Antler, Stop Making Sense at Cobble Hill Cinemas, 68 Jay Street Bar, Brooklyn Social, out of town friends, Manet/Degas at Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walkmen at Kings Theatre, Rockefeller Center concourse, Goldberg Variations by Vikingur Olafsson, Mellencamp by Paul Rees, Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland, All That Man Is by David Szalay.

Topics: I Get Wild at Positive Jam in Accord, NY, The Hold Steady, Guided By Voices, New Paltz, tech offices, Automattic, friends in from out of town, The National + Patti Smith at Madison Square Garden, vacation, Montreal, Sutton, Quebec, Schilling Beer Co., New Hampshire, Maine, Old Orchard Beach, Maine Mall, Eventide, Boston, first day of school.

Topics: summer stoop and roof hangs, Shipwrecked Golf in Red Hook, lunchtime walks in Central Park, Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park, Jon Bon Jovi rest stop, Savak at Mama Tried, Balthazar, Milady's, Rose City Band at Union Pool, Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, CT, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Evenings at the Village Gate by John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, The Ballad of Darren by Blur, Welshpool Frillies by Guided By Voices, I Inside the Old I Dying by PJ Harvey, My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross by ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Lost Son - An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars by Brett Forrest.

Topics: Memorial Day, I Get Wild at Littlefield, Humbled by the Void gig, Luna Park/Coney Island, out of town friends, school happy hour, Black Mountain Wine House, Bryan Adams + Joan Jett at Madison Square Garden, end of school, Dolce Brooklyn, Keens Steakhouse, Barcade, The Cure at Madison Square Garden, Dead and Company at Citi Field, birthday party, Tears For Fears at Madison Square Garden, last day of school, Henry Public, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez, Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J. Crew by Maggie Bullock, Judy Blume books.

Topics: Neighborhood report, Esposito's closing, electronic recycling event, trip to Philadelphia, Adventure Aquarium, Citizens Bank Park, Monk's Cafe, Ed Sheeran at Kings Theatre, O'Keefe's Bar on Court Street, trip to Baltimore, National Aquarium, Camden Yards, Baltimore Light RailLink, I Get Wild shows, John and Peter's in New Hope, The Falcon in Marlboro, Dream House Quartet at Town Hall, The Walkmen at Webster Hall, Bono at the Beacon Theatre, The Hold Steady, The New Pornographers, Scott McMicken and the Ever Expanding, Deerhoof, Kevin Rowland, Feist, Kara Jackson, Xylouris White, Dream House Quartet, Tim Hecker, William Tyler, Ed Sheeran, Gord Downie, Fred Again and Brian Eno, Rose City Band, The National, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil, Stay True by Hua Hsu.

100! Topics: 100 episodes, The National at Bearsville Theatre, Tinker Street Tavern, Bread Alone, The Mud Club, Best Pizza in New Paltz, I Get Wild at Littlefield 3/10, The Zolephants, Oliver 10th birthday, Titanic party, out of town guests, Orphan Guitars, Black Gold, Bar Great Harry, Ruthie's, Barely Disfigured, Brooklyn Social, non-alcoholic beer, 1973 Dead, Essays 1 by Lydia Davis, Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick.