Chris Nelson

@chrisnelson.bsky.social

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Award-winning writer, bylines @ NY Times, MOJO, MTV, more. Music 🤓. Dylan, Dead, DC punk rock. 📍PNW

A poster for the "Dead Band Yard Sale" at Slim's Last Chance in Seattle. Features red letters, black on green details, and loads of yellow skulls
A pepperoni pizza with pepperoni stacked on pepperoni
The cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter no 12, one of the best series I’ve ever read
Show art for the Play Dead app for the Grateful Dead shows on 7/27/74 and 4/17/89
A bag of Doritos Simply NKD, or naked, or nekkid. Cool Ranch variety, “without dyes or artificial flavors.”
A stylish, patterned, black and white bathroom wall treatment
The cast of the Bay City Rollers Show, with characters from Sid and Marty Krofft shows, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, and H. R. Pufnstuf
A pizza with glorious pepperoni saucers
Detective Columbo holding a rumpled paper bag full of evidence
Soundtrack to the classic hip hop film, Wild Style
Beautiful IPA can with jellyfish art from Here Today brewing in Seattle
Bob Dylan, playing piano in a white hoodie, in Woodinville, Wash., USA, June 7, 2026
Eddie Vedder singing with John Doe in Woodinville, Wash, July 7, 2026
The album cover for the jazz album Soul Sisters by Gloria Coleman featuring Pola Roberts
Zach Bryan wearing a sleeveless Metallica Kill ‘Em All shirt on stage, as shown through a black and white video screen
The setlist from the Grateful Dead’s 9-15-82 show, in which they followed the prog rock Let It Grow with the Tin Pan Alley-ish Keep Your Day Job
Digital music screen grab of the Grateful Dead’s Shakedown Street from 12/9/79, as heard on Dave’s Picks vol 47
The cover of Action Comics #500, which shows Supergirl and Lois Lane holding the cover of Action Comics #500, which shows … and so on and so on, forever and ever amen
Merch list for the band Waxling, which includes handmade candles
Sticker featuring Mr Yuk that says Shhhh… No Chomping
Vintage ad for a Green Machine, the Big Wheel-esque kids vehicle
The cover of Neko Case's Middle Cycloe, which features her on the hood of a car (sorry I can't ID the model at the moment) with a sword
Screen grab of the 9/18/88 Grateful Dead show playing in the Play Dead app
Actor John Randolph, who appeared as a guest star on approximately eleventh hundred shows
Jeff Tweedy and his band at the Moore Theatre in Seattle
A pyramid of Old Bay Goldfish
A pyramid of Old Bay Goldfish crackers
Mad Magazines’s Alfred E. Neumann
A phone case with a sticker that imagines the Simpsons’ Ralph Wiggum as the Grateful Dead’s Ice Cream Kid. Created by New Springfield Boogie
Recreational dank IPA from Rueben’s Brewing in Seattle
The cover of Hüsker Dü’s Warehouse: Songs and Stories
The cover of Jim Newton’s Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Revolution, featuring Garcia walking on a beach
Video of Dead and Company in the Sphere
A black coffee mug with an image of Guy Picciotto from Fugazi singing upside down, suspended half-in, half-out, of a basketball rim
Spinal Tap lost backstage
The folks of Bertha, the Grateful Drag band
The cover of the individual show of 3/14/81 from the Enjoying the Ride box set, which features a hand drawn Bertha in blue and green
Bullshit both sides NYT headline. Head-up- Trump’s-ass-line
Pacific NW seafood chowder cooking on the stove
Pacific Northwest seafood chowder with smoked salmon, Dungeness crabs, clams, scallops, and shrimp
Email subject line from Netflix about a film called “Free Solo,” which I can only presume is about the Hunt for Ben Solo
The cover of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, by Robin D. G. Kelley
The CD cover of “Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em”
Dusty 45s playing in Seattle, with flaming trumpet
A modest 1982 black Sanyo boombox, just radio, single cassette, two speakers. A dream music machine. Fit perfectly on its back on the bench seat of a 1974 Chevy Impala station wagon. Image grabbed from USAudioMart classifieds site.
The cover of the compilation album, “Christmas Greetings Vol. 2,” which was sold at the US grocery chain A&P in the early 1970s
Maryland crab cake. No filler. More than a half pound of lump meat. Broiled, not fried.
A T-shirt memorializing the Turkey Drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati
John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps,” known for his “sheets of sound” approach on the tenor saxophone
The cover of the comic Assorted Crisis Events #6, written by Deniz Camp and illustrated by Eric Zawadzki, colored by Jordie Belaire and lettered Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. It depicts a wife, Sasha, complete, and her husband John, who is illustrated partially as an array of puzzle pieces.
A travel mug from the Woody Guthrie Center in front of a small bag of Grateful Dead Morning Brew beans from Verve Coffee Roasters, and a large bag of Nyamyumba decaf beans from Kuma coffee
A New York Times Connections puzzle that includes the words BIG, STAR, THIRD, SISTER, LOVER
A panel from Peanuts with Charlie Brown saying, “I’d give anything in the world if that little girl with the red hair would come over and sit with me.”
Wilco’s Ode to Joy album cover, a study in white
A New York Times Connections puzzle including the words BIG and STAR and THIRD and SISTER and LOVERS
Bob Dylan playing Desolation Row on the 2025 Outlaw Music Festival
A 10 oz Maryland crab cake
A Republican happily quoting a bigot
Bob Dylan and his band performing a galloping, insistent arrangement of Desolation Row at the Outlaw Music Festival, Sept. 14, 2025
A photo of the Music Pinball Hall of Fame mini arcade at Merriweather Post Pavilion