• First show of Liam Kazar on the West Coast. A lovely crowd at Sunset Tavern in Seattle. A lovely sound person, Ron. A lovely, Roxy Music-ish band on the bill, Fruit Juice. The bass player’s dog, Odin, ruling the roost from the stage as they played.
  • Mark Miodownik in The Prepared: “There’s a fundamental problem with self-repairing materials, which is that most of the incumbent industries don’t want them. They don’t want them for a very simple reason: they’re making a lot of money at the moment with things that fall apart. They are really worried about self-repair, and roads are no different — there are a lot of roads and that’s big money.”
  • I like the public bank and officer liability ideas put forward by Chicago mayoral candidate Jamal Green.