Eric Z.

@ericzieg.bsky.social

Stage, songs, walks, and stuff.

A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.

Passing of time measured by final David Berman interviews appearing online and then disappearing as the publications they were in (City Pages, Brooklyn Vegan) shutter.

All of DC’s elder millennials are at the Stars, Broken Social Scene, and Metric concert tonight. If you’re not here, you probably couldn’t make child care work tonight or your back pain is too much.

A dangerous wind shift (visible on radar imagery) has just occurred in #Spokane, WA, where major wildfire disaster is currently unfolding. Three separate major fires (circled) near or within city limits have already caused major structure loss & chaotic, expanding evacs. #WAwx

He always found himself singing “within the vernacular of the love song,” but "it’s also the relationship betw me & my country, me and my friends, me and myself, me and my god. It’s not always about me and my girl. That’s just the language I’ve gotten used to using.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/a...

Glen Hansard, Oscar-Winning Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56

The popular singer-songwriter won, with Markéta Irglová, an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the film “Once.”

nytimes.com

Saw him twice, with The Frames and The Swell Season. Always heard great things about him from those he was close to. So glad he made Once (how I first heard him), which captured his playing in a Dogme 95 way. Requiescat. variety.com/2026/music/g...

Glen Hansard, Irish Musician and ‘Once’ Star Who Won Oscar for Best Song, Dies at 56

Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who starred in the film "Once" and won the Oscar for best song, died on Wednesday in a motorcycle crash. He was 56.

variety.com

Listening to Jay McInerney chatting with Alec Baldwin, and he says “Writing a novel is like hosting a party. Writing a screenplay is like catering the party.”

Seeing ‘Pauline at the Beach’ tonight in an antique store after hours, put on by the same group that showed ‘Shampoo’ last month in a tent within a food-truck pod.