2025 Objectives: I really only had one firm objective for 2025, and that was to release issues #8 and #9 of Tales from the Crate and Volume #3 of Sketchbook Picture Sleeves. I got that done early in the year! This opened up the rest of the year to... well... fuck around with things. Still a bit covid lagged, but also looking forward to 2026 as the 15th anniversary year of publishing, I needed that freedom. Time to assess how Nix has changed over the years, and maybe to reass

While in previous years I kept track of the records that I listened to on a daily basis, this year I didn't feel like keeping track.... Though when people started talking about their "Spossify wraps" and the new "listening Age" thing that was tied into it, I felt like maybe I should do something to talk about the expression of my musical tastes in 2025. It occurred to me that while I didn't do a log of everything-what-I-listened-to, I did by track all the records that I bou

As many of you know, I have an ongoing project called "Sketchbook Picture Sleeves." The basic idea is that I take 7" records and draw my own picture sleeve for them. A nearly full gallery of these can be found here . From time to time people ask me if I will to branch out into 12" records. The answer is that I do, but not as often. I guess maybe because they are definitely not "sketchbook" projects, being too big to fit in a sketchbook. Maybe because its harder to find good

Camper Van Beethoven at the 40 Watt Club 9/17/2025 It's a little weird to me that after spending 54 years without going to the state of...