Excellent Sunday read. Led me down the rabbit hole of the tour diaries, which I hadn't seen before. Hageman writing off the raucous ’94 Halloween show in Orlando—still spoken of with a certain hushed reverence by those who were there—as "a full house of drunks and yellers" complimented it perfectly.

Ellis on the use of tear gas Saturday: "That was the instance, as well, where children were present and they were dressed up in their Halloween costumes. … Those kids were tear gassed on their way to celebrate Halloween in their local school parking lot."

It’s armchair boobs like him, with no grasp of the reciprocal nature of IHL (generally, the laws of war), that lock us in to whatever misery we’ll see visited upon us and ours.

The Diner Grill / Dinner Grill on Irving Park? That place can’t still be there.