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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 03/10/2026

Some personal news: please welcome Charlie, a 7 month old rescue pup. It's been almost a year since @lisafybush.bsky.social and I lost our beloved Sadie, and uncertain times are a little easier to take with a friendly face and a waggy tail.

Who's the best boy? This brown and white dog with a pinkish nose and a majestic demeanor, at least in the moments when he's not already claiming the sofa as his own.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/09/2026

I had a great time at the #ROC Fringe Fest, both as a performer and in the audience. Human creativity and connection beats AI every time. Now comes the hard part: finding new ways to keep the creativity flowing in the darkening days ahead as seasonal depression rears its ugly head...

Scott on stage, balancing uncomfortably on his bum leg while wearing his usual black shirt and jeans as he tells the story of how and why he abruptly quit his public radio gig after 20 years.

You shoulda been there.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 27/09/2026

When you ask a former radio guy to give you five minutes on stage...

A smartphone stopwatch display showing 04:59.72

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/09/2026

Tonight at the Rochester Fringe Festival, I will be telling the true story (possibly for the only time in public) of why I abruptly left my job in public radio, what I regret about it, but also why I ultimately needed to do it. It's part of a great "Catharsis Time" storytelling show.

Poster for "Catharsis Time" at the School of the Arts, 7 PM Sat 9/26

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/09/2026

Most of the team's personnel were in Memphis, but Spikes hung out with the fans to celebrate the win. Now it's on to Las Vegas for a one-game AAA championship on Saturday.

Scott and Eli with the Wings mascot, Spikes, a large red bird.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/09/2026

There were only a couple hundred diehard fans in the park and it was 53 degrees out, but there is nowhere else I would rather have been. It was electric at the end as the Wings retook the lead in the 8th.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/09/2026

My hometown Rochester Red Wings won the International League championship tonight on the road in Memphis, for the first time since '97, but we watched on the screen at the ballpark . Here's me with my son in the seats where I sat with my late dad 29 years ago. (29 was his favorite number.)

Scott, wearing his dad's old jacket and Red Wings gear, with teenage Eli in a Wings hat and a blanket.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 23/09/2026

We're having fun here at the ballpark!

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 16/09/2026

Hey, #ROC, whatcha doing tonight at 7? I'm part of a great comedy science game show with the RMSC, a secret guest meteorologist and @lisafybush.bsky.social, too! Tickets are selling fast and we'd love to see you there tonight!

Purple poster with RMSC@The Fringe Festival and a photo of Rochester's cloudy eclipse sky

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 15/09/2026

Dad brag break: having somehow successfully raised this adorable baby to adulthood, @lisafybush.bsky.social and I can look on with pride as Ari celebrates her 23rd birthday as a grad student living her best life in NYC.

Ari as a smiling happy infant in a little sweater

Ari as a college graduate in her robe, hoisting a celebratory drink at a Brooklyn restaurant

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 10/09/2026

I'm hoping that @luxalptraum.com's cat is also feeling better today...

A prescription bottle of gabapentin, which apparently works for both humans and pets

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 03/09/2026

I disagree that there have been no good US coins. Here are a few in recent years that I've really liked. I was at the coinage advisory commission meeting when they reviewed the Little Rock dollar and one of the Little Rock Nine was there.

Gold Liberty US Mint 225th anniversary coin

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 02/09/2026

There was a huge and amazing display from the "Tyrant Collection" of hundreds of Byzantine and Ottoman gold coins. So many faces of rulers who thought they'd be known forever, and today are remembered by almost nobody. Someday that will be him, too. Someday.

Two pages of a booklet from a gold coin exhibition, showing forgotten former tyrants including "Michael the Drunk."

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/08/2026

If you get caught between the moon and Willie Stargell... (enjoying the lunar eclipse while in Pittsburgh and staying across the street from the ballpark)

Bronze statue of Pirates baseball star Willie Stargell appearing to hit the moon in a state of near total eclipse

Lunar eclipse as seen through a phone camera from Pittsburgh

Lunar eclipse seen over the Roberto Clemente Bridge and downtown Pittsburgh

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/08/2026

Around the time you were born, @lisafybush.bsky.social was introducing me to the magic of RHPS. This one hurts so damn much.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/08/2026

Mourning Tim Curry along with @lisafybush.bsky.social, who introduced me to RHPS in college. And as we remember all his brilliant roles, I am especially fondly remembering going to Chicago for the previews of Spamalot, where he overacted like hell as King Arthur.

Lisa as a college student in Boston dressed as Columbia from Rocky Horror in a sequined top hat, bowtie, leopard print leotard and shiny blue shorts. We were all so young once. And hot.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/08/2026

I haven't quite been *everywhere*, man, but I've covered a lot of ground. I have spent enough time in Indiana, especially, to almost count it as "lived," with Nevada right behind. I have never spent a night in AR or MS. Also 8 of 10 provinces, missing SK and NL.

Map showing the states where I've been, with 48 at least visited, lived in 3, spent a while in about half.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 23/08/2026

Showing my solidarity with Canada in the best way possible (until my bum leg gets better and I can come spend my $ there) - watching the #TragicallyHip farewell concert 10th anniversary special on the CBC.

Screenshot of the late Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip on the CBC

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 01/08/2026

Sometimes if you travel the same road a lot, you find a piece of music that just perfectly matches the drive. For me, it's Van Morrison's sublime "Saint Dominic's Preview" and the lonely beauty of Route 17 through the Catskills filling me with beauty and emotion. What's yours?

View out the car window of NY Route 17 up in the mountains near Roscoe. You can't hear Van Morrison blasting out the car stereo

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 19/07/2026

Come cheer on your favorite Bald Springsteen Dad in the Roast Battle Tournament of Champions tonight, Rochester!

Poster for the Roast Battle Tournament of Champions, Danny Smith vs. yours truly, tonight at 7 at Comedy at the Carlson

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 15/07/2026

Sunday night! Come see how far I can get in the first-ever Roast Battle Tournament of Champions at the Carlson!

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 15/07/2026

Sunday night! Come see how far I can get in the first-ever Roast Battle Tournament of Champions at the Carlson!

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 12/07/2026

We just enjoyed the Erie Moon Mammoths/Sea Wolves! (And on John Oliver bobblehead night, no less.)

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 04/07/2026

Some semiquincentennial thoughts while listening to the stuff that gives me hope on a day such as this... The America I'm celebrating today is the America of the artists, the writers, the singers. 1/

Bruce Springsteen sings in Washington DC in front of an on-screen US flag, May 27, 2026

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 01/07/2026

They are polyester - but super lightweight and ventilated!

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/06/2026

I had a really nice final night at the #Rochester jazz festival, and I am going to miss the creative charge I've been getting out of writing these reviews/observations for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social. Your feedback is always appreciated! jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

Kyle Roussel, a young Black pianist wearing a flowery suit and glasses, plays a Steinway grand piano at the Rochester International Jazz Festival

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 27/06/2026

It's the final day of the jazz festival here in sunny #Rochester, and it was another really great night last night covering all the music for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social. I hope you've been enjoying these at least half as much as I've been enjoying writing them! jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

Sasha Dobson, a dark haired woman in a denim jacket, plays guitar on stage

Big Lazy, a three piece jazz ensemble, plays on stage at the Little Theater

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/06/2026

Two more nights left at the #Rochester jazz festival, which means 2 more fun nights of enjoying music and writing about it before I go back to being just the engineer for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social. Here's my report on Thursday's fun. Let's catch up at the fest! jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

Singer Tessa Souter performs at the jazz fest

A full stage of performers at the Burt Bachrach tribute

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/06/2026

I don't have a traditional background to be either a music reviewer or a broadcast engineer. Thankfully, @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social lets me loose anyway on its gear and on the #Rochester jazz festival. I was kind of proud of this one last night. jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

The bassist and saxophonist for Dolphin Hyperspace stand on a stage at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, their faces obscured by medium-sized inflatable blue and white dolphins.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 24/06/2026

Last kid escapes from high school today. He also voted for the first time, and hopefully not the last. I'm glad this is the last we have to deal with this school district. It's been a long ride since I started here 49 years ago. And that was the most generic speech I've ever seen a sup't give.

Eli stands in his blue cap and gown on the high school turf field that nobody wanted, and which will have to be redone very expensively because it is covering toxic waste

Eli tips his head to show his cap covered in political buttons and pins

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 18/06/2026

And from 400-ish feet up on the roof of Innovation Square an hour or so ago.

The view looking west from Innovation Square (Xerox Tower) 400-ish feet above Rochester NY on a hazy afternoon in June

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 10/06/2026

Huge crowds, but moving very efficiently.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 10/06/2026

You've never seen this before in Buffalo! So cool to get to witness the @unionpacificbigboy.bsky.social up close.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 01/06/2026

And just like that, @ari-infinityyy.bsky.social is a college graduate! @lisafybush.bsky.social and I are so proud of all she's accomplished and all that's ahead of her (grad school this fall at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social for a master's in library science)

Ari, a short person in her early 20s with long dirty blond hair, stands in her cap and gown in front of Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

She is more successful than the Nets.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/05/2026

And not for nothing, but I scored a really good spot in the pit, too.

Bruce Springsteen walking along the edge of the stage singing to the crowd

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/05/2026

He is operating in defiance of age and gravity at this point. This #springsteen tour is meeting the moment that Bruce has been building up to for his whole career. There's a new edge and energy to his catalog. Tom Morello is 🔥. The band is a majestic machine that doesn't let up for almost 3 hours.

Springsteen singing at the end of an almost 3 hour show

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/05/2026

I wish for you to have something in your life that brings you as much joy as this Bruce tour has brought me.

Nils Lofgren and Bruce Springsteen on stage VERY CLOSE TO ME in Washington

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 27/05/2026

It was a lovely anniversary evening with @lisafybush.bsky.social. I don't know if we have another 30 in us, but here's to trying.

Scott and Lisa waiting for dinner in an upholstered restaurant booth

Scott's pepper-crusted steak and au gratin potatoes

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/05/2026

"Thinking back to the season before Looking back through the cracks in the door Two people were married The act was outrageous The bride was contagious She burned like a bride" 30 years today with @lisafybush.bsky.social. The best adventure I'll ever have.

Lisa and Scott as bride and groom in 1996, looking impossibly young

A pink and green refrigerator magnet announcing Lisa and Scott's wedding day, May 26, 1996

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22/05/2026

I'm very glad the shirt came just in time for me to wear it while doing stand-up tonight. I may never be successful enough to get on late night TV, but everything I know about comedy started with Letterman and the late night legacy that ends tonight with @colbertlateshow.bsky.social.

Scott, a short bald man with a beard, performs stand-up comedy wearing a "Last Show with Stephen Colbert" shirt.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21/05/2026

One of the joys of having a history buff son is letting him plan a winding route home from Pittsburgh. The site of West Virginia's creation in 1863, the oldest suspension bridge in the country, the world's (second) biggest teapot and William McKinley's birthplace. As one does.

Scott makes the teapot pose in front of the red and white "world's largest teapot" in Chester WV

The Wheeling WV suspension bridge and the back of the Capitol Music Hall with a "Jamboree USA WWVA 1170" painted sign

Eli stands at the dais of the hall in Wheeling WV where the conference to create the state was held in 1863

Eli stands in front of an enormous William McKinley poster in his replica birthplace in Niles, Ohio

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 20/05/2026

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

Bruce Springsteen and Jake Clemons performing Badlands in Pittsburgh

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 13/05/2026

Life goes fast. Today, our youngest is 18, with HS graduation around the corner. Raising two kids to quasi-adulthood in this world has been a challenge and also a joy. I'm excited to see what Eli and his big sister @ari-infinityyy.bsky.social do out there in the world! @lisafybush.bsky.social

Eli as a newborn with dark hair and a round red face

Eli at a nursery school birthday party, age 4, with a green paper crown

Eli at age 9 looking at a birthday cake and candle

Eli as a young man with thick brown hair, a charming smile and holding a model of Theodore Roosevelt's mansion in Oyster Bay.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 08/05/2026

Happy Defeating the Nazis Day. Kinda hoped they would stay defeated for more than 80 years, tbh.

Front page image of the Daily Mail, London, announcing "V-E DAY IT'S ALL OVER"

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 08/05/2026

My point is this: if you can't do something that scares you and challenges you at least a little, what are you doing with your brief time on this crazy planet? Or as @brucespringsteen.net put it the other night, "it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."

Bruce Springsteen, in a vest and tie, on stage on Long Island pointing to me in the crowd behind the stage.

(Or so I choose to believe.)

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 08/05/2026

It's not a perfect cure for everything that's bringing us all down in this terribly imperfect world, but trying something that I am far from mastering is a useful distraction. Tonight, that was roast battle comedy, and while I didn't win the event, I held my own through two rounds and had fun.

Scott, a bald middle aged guy in a black T-shirt, on stage at a comedy club trading roasts with Cindy, a middle-aged comic with blond hair

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