BattleBots Beat: Bad Dragon

Senor Weaselo - January 19, 2023January 18, 2023

Oh, the things we've learned of from Balls's AVN posts, and the Giant Washer awards… Welcome back to the Beat! We're one week in and already the defending champ is 0-1. This week, the younger sibling tries to pick up the gauntlet… against the preseason #1. Also two of last year's

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Notes from the Bandstand

Senor Weaselo - January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

I'll have a good one hopefully next week, but I need to get back to Hermana Weaselo. Or I'll have to think it up myself. With that, on with the show. So, as I've mentioned, I'm a regular on the religious Jewish wedding circuit. And that means I've seen a lot

BattleBots Beat: Banner Night

Senor Weaselo - January 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Welcome back to the Beat! For the… 6th? season in a row, I'm your friendly neighborhood Senor Weaselo, here to report and recap, well, BattleBots. It's a little bit of a different vibe this year, so let me get into the gist of the details: -There are only 50 full-competing robots

Your 2021* BattleBots Beaties! (Sponsored by Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo)

Senor Weaselo - January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

Hey, as long as they come out before I start writing about new season, I'll take it. So, you know, just in the nick of time. Hey, there weren't Giant Washer awards this year because my non-Mexican union equivalent Dracophile (of BattleBots Update) was apparently *checks notes* donating his time

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Recovering from Gigsmas

Senor Weaselo - January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

…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

Senor Weaselo - December 28, 2022December 28, 2022

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

Senor Weaselo - December 21, 2022December 21, 2022

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

Primus inter pares, or, Eulogizing Grandpa Weaselo

Senor Weaselo - December 7, 2022December 7, 2022

Good evening. Due to recent personal events, in lieu of our usual frivolity, we bring this piece. My grandfather (aka Grandpa Weaselo) passed away in his sleep early Thursday morning. He was 88. Also, I'd be remiss to not say I lovingly stole chunks of the biographical details from Hermana

Wumbo Wednesday with Weaselo: Hazard Pay

Senor Weaselo - November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

In that I don't get it for having TWO gigs last week outdoors, in November. I instead get to play in poorly-heated tents. I'm still sick. I'm pretty sure Wednesday and Thursday I had bronchitis. Ain't nobody got time for that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydmPh4MXT3g We can only hope that she's doing well. How did I

Ghost of Slave Labor, or, Your Japan World Cup Preview

Senor Weaselo - November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

Oh good, we're off to the races with a Ghost of Tsushima joke. Which, after hearing about the premise and reading the history, I can tell you with certainty after watching Senorita Weaselo play about 3 hours and then getting sidetracked with another game (twice), ends in the original definition