Bill was my best friend. He was an amazing person, singular, irreplaceable, giving, loving. He called himself the luckiest man in the world but it was us who were lucky—to know him. There are things you can replace. And others you cannot. Bon voyage, old friend, I love you.

Yo Bill, thanks for the ride. Thanks for the wonderful friendship, the years of color commentary - and the Hall of Fame existence that you wore like headlights.

Bon voyage ol’ buddy. We’re sure gonna miss you - but don’t let that slow you down...

📸: Bob Minkin/Jay Blakesberg

relistening to the ucla pauley pavilion grateful dead shows today for bill

I’m always excited at any chance to make the city proud. Thank you Chicago Sky for the opportunity to design the home opener tee and thank you Chicago for helping sell it out 🫶🏿💕

RIP Bill Walton, a true American iconoclast, Hall of Fame center & center of moral clarity, the greatest Dead fan there ever was. To see him at a show was a special form of blessing, pure uninhibited joy & idiosyncratic soulfulness. A legit hero. What a long strange trip it was.

man. this bill walton news hurts. what a legend

Hall of Fame center Bill Walton has died of cancer, the NBA says. He was 71.

i edited a piece for portable model about grateful dead cover bands and i’ve spent a bunch of time just like reading and learning about the dead. wish josh’s piece was out earlier. so so great.

a Simpsons themed film festival where you win the Palme D’oh

⚪️ Not God is here ⚪️

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Such a great read. Love the enthusiasm and hearing what it’s like thru fresh ears!

a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers seems like the epitome of suburban drama. but in evanston, it's unfurled into something larger. the owner of the 'largest landscaping business' in evanston had a hand in crafting in ban.

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cindy lee cancelling the empty bottle show and then weeks later neil young postpones his northerly island date? horrible string of luck for a very specific type of chicagoan

read this first thing this morning and it's a truly wonderful piece of writing. Josh does it again!

ICYMI: My long read scene report about my first Dead & Company show, my first time in Vegas, and the Sphere noexpectations.fyi/p/dead-and-com…

I missed a lot of the Cindy Lee discourse, and I'm grateful for that, but I have now added to it, and I'm grateful for that, too, because it gave me an excuse to write about things I usually don't sadie-sartini-garner.ghost.io/whos-that-lady/

🔮Sphere Report 🔮

Last year, the Grateful Dead became my all-time favorite band. I promised myself if I got a chance to see some of the original members perform together, I'd go. So, I went to Vegas for the opening weekend of Dead & Company's Sphere residency.

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a week ago, i logged onto apple music before my flight to vegas. saw they were counting down a '100 best albums of all time' list. thought, 'that's none of my business' and put on a grateful dead show