It’s been a wild month. Some jams-
May-July 2025 Photo Recap

Some Yard Work in a Wet and Verdant May
Dear non-AI bot readers: I apologize for not being so great about keeping things up to date over here on Jake.News, other than the playlists. Continue reading
August 2025 Playlist

The Author Enjoying a Cold One in the Adirondacks | Photo: Courtesy Lukas North Private Collection
Some Late Summer Jams for your Aural Pleasure-
July 2025 Playlist
Escute bem-
Illing When We Should Be Chilling
Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s I played some early-gen video games from time to time. In that era’s version of video games, the objective was usually to steer a pixelated object through various ‘levels’ of other pixelated nonsense. A frog through traffic, an Italian plumber through mushroom and lava filled dreamscapes; those were the scenarios. As you, the player, piloted your little pixelated cartoon through each ‘level’, the degree of difficulty would increase. Life can be kind of like a 90’s video game at times.Continue reading
June 2025 Playlist

Photo: Courtesy B. Maschal Private Collection
Apparently it is already June. Some jams for ye-
May 2025 Playlist
Mayday! Listen up!
April 2025 Playlist
Spring April Jams for your listening pleasure-
March 2025 Playlist
Bring on the spring! Some March jams for listening pleasure–
Vanity Ikea Hack
Hello friends. It’s been a while since I have written about any DIY nonsense over here on the Jake.News. But I figured that since the Jake.News channel is probably more credible than many of the other news sources out there in the year of our lord 2025 (and what at year it has been already!!), it was about time to drop some slightly above mediocre (depending on who you ask) design yadda yaddas. So here we go- I call it Sweden meets Catskills.Continue reading