Today:

• The dumbest people still have high-powered lasers
• US Olympic hockey player distances himself from White House video trashing Canadians
• Paramount Beats Netflix in Months-Long Fight For Warner Bros.

Status: Tired. Maybe 5 hours of sleep last night.

Listening: Eric Church in concert. This is the first concert I’ve left early in quite a while. Not because it was terrible, but because it started so damn late and I’m just not really committed to Church’s music to stay out past 11PM. He didn’t take the stage until after 9PM (thanks to playing the full suite of Pink Floyd’s Time / Welcome to the Machine / Run Like Hell, as the intro music). I like Church for basically three reasons: the nostalgia of “Springsteen”, the Mr. Misunderstood album, and his willingness to play covers relevant to the area. After getting “Springsteen”, JJ Cale’s “If You’re Ever in Oklahoma,” and “Record Year” I called it a night.

Also, venues, please notify people ahead of time when you upgrade seats to close off the upper bowl. While it’s always nice to find out the cheap upper level seat is now a more expensive lower bowl seat, at least email and tell me to check in at the box office if you can’t distribute a new ticket. If a section is that undersold, you know about it well in advance. Don’t make me stand in the security line only to have to fight my way back out and walk around the whole building.

Last Watched: Game of Thrones, nine episodes left.