Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Nocturnes Magazine: This Year’s Team Might Not Suck! (And a brief Marble Not-League Rolldown)

So that's a nice thing. Through 2/5 of the season, tied for the division lead at 7-5. Because almost everyone else is 6-6, because oh, we got parity. Highlights from the first four series (including a 9-game homestand): -Came back from an 8-5 deficit in the 8th inning to salvage the last

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: A Brief 2025 Marble League Rolldown

HOLY SHIT THE KOBALTS! I mean seriously, holy fucking shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNDkKbSZIfA What a final four events to close it out. And with it, a team that had only appeared at the first League—back when it was still the MarbleLympics and a cool Olympics-inspired first-time event; a team that had never successfully gone

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: I Can’t Believe I’m Making a Uni Guide for the Marble League

But I am! So there. Why? Because I can, because Marble League 2024 just started, and because the team shirts have stepped up their game this year. Links to the unis should be obvious enough (it's the store link because I don't want to be bothered to show each picture

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: More Notes from the Bandstand

7 gigs in 8 nights has come and gone, and there was much rejoicing for my bank account, especially after the check to the Treasury Department (aka, taxes) cleared. Which was good in that it essentially cleared dead money in that case. Less good in the amount of money, which

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Hey, I Didn’t Burn Apartment Weaselo Down!

Hermana Weaselo was supposed to come over Thursday morning and we were going to make the meats together, with Madre Weaselo's general recipe. But then she wasn't feeling great, so she had to back out and wait to come with the rest of the family Weaselo. And I have

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Subtitle Goes Here

(Wow, nicely done, me.) Well, I didn't finish any gigs after midnight this past week, so I'll take it. That took me almost a week to fully recover, even while I had other gigs that week. Or actually that's part of why. So, let's scramble here! -There's one race left in this

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Recovering from Gigsmas

…Kinda, he said while on a gig at press time. Here was my schedule from Christmas Day to New Year's Day. 12/25: Christmas Mass in the morning (in New Jersey), rehearsal for a show in the afternoon (in Brooklyn)12/26: Said show12/27: Gig12/28: Taught two students. This was my obvious light day.12/29:

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Your 2022 Marble League Rolldown Breakdown

Well, the torch has gone out over The Pond in Draklin, and we have our new champions, and boy, are they not who you would have expected if I told you in the summer! Let's go through all 32 teams, both Marble League proper and Showdown squads, and give thoughts,

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Holiday Rush

It's that pre-Christmas rush, or as musicians know it, time to play the same things we play every goddamn year. Okay, that's a slight mistake. I haven't had anyone ask me to play The Nutcracker this year. Part of that might actually be a soft boycott on Tchaikovsky, due to goings-on