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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 25/09/2026

I'm sure you can take advantage of some schism in the Dungeon Crawler Carl fandom for your band...

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 17/09/2026

Stage is set for @onelinedrawing.bsky.social tonight - stoked for a loud show?

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 15/07/2026

Okay, maybe don't name your brand after a disease caused by ritualistic cannibalism?

An ad for a shoe company named "Kuru" which unfortunately is also the name of a prion disease caused by cannibalism.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 08/07/2026

As there is no more soccer today, I think it's time to torment my children with another viewing of URGH! : A Music War, while refusing to skip over Klaus Nomi.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 08/07/2026

I am immensely fortunate to have not acquired the Keenan Gene that causes one to enjoy raisins in places they were never intended to appear. Alas, I did not avoid the "I think this is a smile?" when posing for photos gene. See : me with the drummer from my favorite band ever, "smiling".

Your humble author, thinking he is smiling while appearing to have been dead for several hours prior to the selfie he is taking with Adam Pfahler, drummer of Jawbreaker, who is smiling like a normal human being.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 02/07/2026

As he steals my son's shoe.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 30/06/2026

He's a Fallout Fan that can't count?

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 27/06/2026

I have "things" with family/sentimental value that are hundreds of years old, but as for a daily driver? 1965 Harmony Bobkat.

A 1965 Sunburst Harmony Bobkat electric guitar, surrounded by a J. Mascis Jazzmaster and a frankly embarrassing Jackson 7 string above a very cluttered shelf.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 26/06/2026

If you find yourself near San Jose tomorrow?

A flyer for a show at Playback Studios , 1813 South 10th Street, San Jose CA, June 26 at 7pm, with Wet Summer, TIMSHEL,Mercy Terrace, Sagaba, Holistic, and Complex Abstract Concepts

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 23/06/2026

Any Hot Snakes, Really. Honorable Mentions: Zen Arcade, Tim, Repeater

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 06/06/2026

Hey bsky music nerds in SJ! My band (Sagaba - I should really make us an account) is throwing a party at our studio in a few weeks, and you should come hang out!

A flyer with a tree, informing you that Wet Summer, TIMSHEL, Mercy Terrace, Sagaba, and Holistic are playing at Playback Studios, 1813 S. 10th Street, San Jose, CA on Friday, June 26, 2026 for all ages with a $5 cover at 7pm

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 18/05/2026

Wonder if it's the same guy that went into the safeway next to my old job!

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 09/04/2026

My militant agnostic self is ready to go shopping for blousy stripes at the moment.

The Swiss Guard, looking fabulous in billowing stripes and plate mail, ready to die for the Pope.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 05/04/2026

I am firmly gen x and this ranks on the schwiiiiiiiiiing scale alongside finding out Elizabeth Hurley and Gillian Anderson were 100% People I Would Have Hung Out With And Secretly Lusted After In High School/College

Elizabeth Hurley with giant hair and goth makeup at the Batcave in London in 1984.

Gillian Anderson being Goth and Nerdy perfectly at some point in the late 80s

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 29/01/2026

Squishy flesh body? Pfffffft.

A Robobrain from Fallout, far superior to a squishy sack of water and meat.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 30/09/2025

If anyone feels like heckling me for some reason, or throwing comedy underpants, or more importantly just showing up so it looks like my band has a much larger fanbase than we do, Thursday night, 924 Gilman, Berkeley, CA is the place to do it. (Or, you can just reminisce about like Isocracy)

924 Gilman Street - Thursday 10/2 - Doors 7, Music 7:30. All Ages, $10
Neverlyn, December Pilot, Sagaba (my band), Cheers For Nothing, Wet Summer. I'm not even going to try to describe the flyer image, so we'll say scribbles, a few skulls at the bottom, what looks like an iron gate or maybe a fence, something looks like it's on fire, maybe a heart? I think I see some dude's face, but it's kinda scratchy and collage-y and heavily processed, but hey, someone else made the flyer so it's awesome because mine would have looked like stick figures that just blamed me for causing their painful existence.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 03/08/2025

I was...uh..."fortunate?" enough to get to see this all up close and personal so now everybody can share my pain.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 29/07/2025

(and yes, even with the Reddit Atheist types - I don't need to believe in any particular religion or deity to live my life as not-a-jerk, but I also believe in hedging my bets.) :

A Bloom County comic strip in which Oliver Wendell Jones stands on a small hill and says "The mighty humanistic, rationalistic, atheistic scientist prepares to give himself over to an annual springtime moment of wild abandon". He pauses, looking at his feet, then shouts "THE UNIVERSE IS JUST A LITTLE TOO DARNED ORDERLY TO BE JUST A BIG ACCIDENT!!!" at which point he collapses, exhausted.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 10/07/2025

Do I need to update my Danzig Moon t-shirt for no particular reason?

A "Three Wolf Moon" T-shirt except all of the "wolves" are largely unflattering photos of Glenn Danzig in various stages of howl and/or sneer.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 19/06/2025

In Portland for the first time and everywhere I have gone is playing music I would have picked. I think I like it here.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 19/05/2025

"No, I do not have to explain why we have this room where time moves slower than outside the room, because the plot needs it, and everyone in the book says "yes, this is a thing that happens", and all the ubernerds can just say this and not read it."

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 02/04/2025

Ah, you folks need to go on my "Jawbreaker Reunion" shitlist ;) (Also, would be there in a heartbeat if I was on the right coast - that lineup looks awesome!)

The covers of the 80's Faith/Void split 7" which is not from the band Faith/Void unless they decide to put out a single called "Split 7" " which might just complete the circle.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 18/03/2025

If we're going full regional delicacy :

A bottle of Autocrat Coffee Syrup, which is pretty much the State Beverage of Rhode Island.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 07/03/2025

Ahem, my Westie was a grumpy old wobbly.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 16/02/2025

Oh man, I wish I knew this existed before I went to Ireland last year! I guess there's always Harvard?

Whale Skeleton. Not haunted, as far as I could tell. At least there are no whale ghosts haunting me, but I mean they could be, I don't speak whale and don't know how whale ghosts work, so as far as we know this is just a normal non-haunted whale skeleton.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 16/02/2025

Oh hey Bay Area, come heckle me next Saturday. (or don't. We get (sort of) paid either way.) RIYL : Hum. Failure, Far.

Sagaba, Problem Dog, Jupiter Noise, Restraining Disorder
Saturday, February 22
High Voltage Punk Shop
1824 West San Carlos St.
San Jose, CA

Music starts at 6:30pm, $10 cover, all ages

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 07/02/2025

I'm Irish. My ancestors (recently, even) had to deal with this shit, but we're "white" now. The fact that this happened should make Irish folks louder and more protective of everybody else's rights, but... yeah, I'm still waiting for the rest of 'em.

A job posting for a caretaker. "No Irish Need Apply" in the job description.

A window sign reading "No Irish No Blacks No Dogs"

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 30/12/2024

Boba haughtily sniffs at anyone who dares question you.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 30/12/2024

At The Moment : Tuner > Echoplex Preamp > Shields Blender (which... I love it, but might come off in favor of op-amp big muff and Boss Super Feedbacker/Distortion) > Klon Clone > DIY Marshall Guv'nor > Phase 90 > DIY analog chorus > monoprice digital delay> DIY analog echo

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 21/12/2024

I never need to see anything else again. I am complete.

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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 30/11/2024

While ravenous after working retail on Black Friday and looking at my travel food pictures while my food cooks, I was reminded of this, and wonder if The Man Himself has had it in his travels @themountaingoats.bsky.social