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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 8h

Jaws 2 is on, drinks are cheap, no cover, why would you not be here

Weaklung gear set up on and in front of a very small stage

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh boy. This is… actually a very smart way to approach life in 2026

"Oh God," muttered Ford, slumped against a bulkhead. He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lowdown tonight! It’s Bimbo time!

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They’ve been jacking up dead rat prices at the store all summer, maybe I’ll give this a whirl instead

Sketchy white van with “dead rats 4 low prices” in red paint with a rough pic of a dead rat on the side.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stop. Behold. Then go about your day

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My playlist from @chicritmass.bsky.social tonight. Lemme tell you, feels good to roll around Daley Plaza blasting John Williams’ greatest hits before a big bike ride.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ll be the guy on the green Bullitt blasting the bangers!

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every day is bike the drive if you’ve got enough pals @bikegridnow.org

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You sure that’s not the toxoplasmosis speaking? Speaking as the guardian of these two nuisances FOR WHOM I WOULD KILL AND/OR DIE they are absolutely assholes. In fact my day usually starts with Brian’s literal anus in my face.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Betcha can’t pat your head and rub your belly at the same time”

Brian Eno (kitten) demonstrating his dexterity and coordination

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bike The Drive is cool and all but I don’t think anything is worth getting up that early for.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Brian is sick of being demon-eyes’d for his beliefs.

Kitten at the end of a tunnel with flash reflected in his eyes like, well, like cats eyes.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Caught a bridge lift while eating at Calumet Fisheries and now I feel one notch closer to True Chicagoan status

The bridge from the car jumping scene at the start of The Blues Brothers (1980), mid-raise. Nobody tried to jump it, sadly

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Caught Steve grooming Brian in a sunbeam and this was where my mind went

Cats posed as in the aftermath of the scene in the quote post

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Since I put the JM XII neck on that other body, I’m thinking about offloading this one, I messed with the wiring and put a Duncan hot rail under the bridge pickup cover, if you’re interested in a cheap and functional 12…

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Brian photo dump, from a friend with a better phone camera than me

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m gassing up, polishing the chrome, filling up the tyres of my bullshit, soon to be back on it

Sounds room. Background: Fender Princeton combo amp in handsome tweed, next to a Mesa Boogie Mark V combo amp in classic black, standing on a milk crate that is also on wheels for dumb personal reasons. One “o” on the badge has been sharpied over so it reads “bougie”, and there’s a sticker that says “war profiteers out of music” about the shitty streaming service that we all should hate.
Middle: one six string electric guitar with a metal neck giving off some rather unattractive glare in the overhead light. Brown-stained natural wood finish, black hardware, badass. Next to it is its larger sibling, with a Squier 12-string neck, a longer upper horn, and a tremolo tailpiece with the arm removed. Same hardware, pickups etc as the other.
Front: pedalboard loaded with a bunch of unnecessary but fun and noisy pedals, I’m sure I’ve posted a version of this board somewhere in the past, I’m not gonna type it all out again here. Everything is wired up and ready to rock and has in fact been rocking right up until I decided to stage, photograph and post this picture and then write an essay in the alt text because I’m not into the whole brevity thing.
It’s all on a scrappy but charming rug. Which may or may not tie the room together, depending on how annoying you find Big Lebowski bits. Not the Big Lebowski’s Bits, that’s a very different film, possibly made by Jackie Treehorn. Ah shucks, I’m rambling again…

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I got 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶’d by both of them today

Orange tabby sitting on an office chair, laying on his side, head up, paws tucked under like a supervillain or a shitty boss

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Mr Red Lobster Eno was my father’s name; my friends call me ‘Brian. Dude. Fuckin’… *exasperated sigh*’”

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My playlist for tonight’s @chicritmass.bsky.social. Yes, I dropped Nightswimming at the end when everyone was jumping into the lake because I am insufferable.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Where my 2007 daily Pitchfork reader millennials at?

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Artists should not be above explicitly calling it out in promo materials

IfIHadAHifi/VomBom/Weaklung showbill with note at the bottom “this flier is 100% generative AI-free in case it wasn’t obvious”

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Finally found a copy of Deathcrash’s Somersaults on vinyl, and well, this is the most disappointed I’ve been about a misheard lyric in a long time.

There’s so much that I think
But I wouldn’t ever say
This is shy town all the way
This is shy town all the way

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s not exactly best-kept-secret territory and hardly a neighbourhood hidden gem but it does surprise me how many people are unaware that there’s a free, accessible landscaped roof deck on top of the Willis Tower lobby (Jackson entrance)

People sitting on grass and chairs with a big fucking building in the background. Bubble dome window to the lobby is visible to the left. Sunny and shit.

Big fucking building with some blades of grass in the foreground for scale or contrast or whatever

Jackson/Franklin intersection from four floors up

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dame Judi Bench now has company. Accepting all submissions for punny names for the fencing behind her.

Dame Judi Bench, my Chicago-flag-coloured parkway bench, now with a lattice fence behind it, gently curving down to the ground and shielding the bench from the roadway a little bit

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I found the spot where that one building on the north side of the river east of Wabash is bearable to look at.

401 N Wabash, photographed from the river walk south and east of the building. It’s a frustratingly nice-looking building, blue reflecting the sky, and a conveniently-placed tree in the foreground obscures the name on the front of the building

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Look if you’re at all sensitive to cute things you should sit down before clicking through, is all.

Brian Eno, who is a big kitten in black and white like a hybrid cow-skunk, sits in a brown paper bag. He’s looking up at the camera plaintively. Hazel-green eyes full of trust and innocence and murder.

Same but he’s looking off to the side and seems a little bit manic, he looks like he’s just seen god or a moth.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is my Brian; he is NOT the messiah. But he is a very naughty boy.

Brian Eno, skunxedo kitten, who is basically a cat by now, sprawls across a backpack on a couch. He wears an expression both accusing and alluring.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

After the first 3 or 4 milks there’s a real drop off though

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Chicago, I see your severe thunderstorm alerts and raise you

UK government phone push alert for high risk of wildfires.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Little bit of hometown pride… this face kills machines

Plaque on a brick wall:
In this site stood the lace factory of John Heathcoat who invented the bobbinet lace machine and John Boden (weird phrasing)

The machinery and lace were destroyed by Luddites on the night of 28 June 1816

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You should never give me your contact info

- Did I tell you we got one of those bidets you just attach to the toilet a year or so ago? Never looked back

- Well then how do you know it’s working?

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The bidet lobby has gotten too powerful

404 Media email subject:
This Man Might Go to Prison for Wiping His…

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

London pal got a Malort design on his ankle cast in honour of our visit. Sometimes Chicago’s most bafflingly memeified cultural export is Good, Actually

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Live footage of the average British home cooling solution

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is also an explanation of what it’s like to be in a local band right now. Where there’s no money to be made, the only reason to do it is love. The work benefits from the care we put into it, even as the economics of it all mean we simply can’t do it as much as we’d like.

I do this because I want to, and for years now, "because I want to" has pretty much been the only reason to do this period. If you're doing it for any other reason, I won't go as far to question the nature of your commitment—but it's worth asking yourself whether you're searching for echoes of a past sensation instead of truly living in the reality of the moment.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A song is not a static thing and in a perfect world a song would be different every time you hear it; recorded music is a historical anomaly and we should celebrate these cash-grabs as hastening a return to a fully live musical tradition where there’s no concept of a “definitive” version of a song.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is a very good read; subscribe if you can to @hearingthingsco.bsky.social for the whole thing www.hearingthings.co/stop-listeni...

The reason is that listening to music has become a trivial everyday affair as a result of technical progress. Listening to music is nothing out of the ordinary any more, you can hear music wherever you go, you are practically forced to hear music, in every department store, in every doctor’s surgery, on every street, indeed you cannot avoid music nowadays, you wish to escape from it but you cannot escape, this age is totally accompanied by background music, that is the catastrophe. [...] People have been stuffed full of music every day for so long that they have lost all feeling for music.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You’re not the only one. This has been sitting in my phone notes for ten years, still haven’t got around to writing that thinkpiece

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