Christopher

Criminally difficult to find recordings. The only string quartet I could find is the 3rd. Great composer.

Call me a cockeyed optimist, but ultimately I believe it will backfire if they keep repeatedly referring to fairly normal Americans as “the Radical Left.”

It’s odd Vance is trolling on gratitude because I’ve noted before his complete lack of gratitude to anyone who helps him.
Extended family takes him in… he writes book about what losers they are.
Mentored at Yale? Take it down.
Ohio makes him senator? Suckers

The surname Sogard is of Danish origin and is derived from the Old Norse personal name Sǫgǫrðr, which means "sea enclosure" or "sea farm." It is a patronymic surname, indicating that it was originally used to identify the descendants of a person named Sǫgǫrðr.
GO RED SOX

Dave Brubeck, Wes Montgomery, Sibelius, Villa Lobos, or Rickie Lee Jones.

Currently loving Dept Q. The scenes of captivity aren’t working for me, but all else is brilliant: great writing, great characters, great performances, great direction.

Celtic Woman, if you're not familiar, is like if someone asked an AI to create a band for people who really love Barry Manilow, Enya, and Disney musicals, and then at the *very last second* they mumbled "oh yeah, maybe one of them had an Irish grandma."

Apples. All the apples. Okay, not all. A half bushel, though. So.

Let's fuckin' go

OK not math but I feel this way about Semiotics.

Lynchian

Driving through Maine yesterday feeling blue, until I passed a Doggy Day Care business named Puptown Funk and cracked up, smiling for the remainder of the drive.

Hours later, I’m not sure the laugh was worth the earworm.

Ok, for those of you who missed it, the word was actually ‘tear-able.’

Overheard in a bakery today, someone explaining to his friend what monkey bread is and the friend competely nonplussed as to why it was “terrible”, since the description otherwise sounded so good.

That moment when you are browsing insanely expensive audiophile gear and realize that Yes, you *would* pay those prices, but only if they cured your tinnitus.

anyway my favourite palindrome is saippuakauppias which means soap merchant

Photo of Femi Kuti performing live on stage with his band and dancers.

Femi and his band were A LOT. Just astonishing energy and locked in rhythm and horns for two hours.

The strolling bari sax is everything.

At the Sinclair in Cambridge MA tonight for Femi Kuti. The opener, Madame Gandhi, is owning the crowd.

the follow up question there is why. Why can't you find white workers? What's the difference? Oh, it's that you didn't have to pay them as much, or take the same safety precautions, or pay benefits etc,
WHY IS THAT OKAY?

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.

He went alone and beat the odds.

youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

Divorce registries should be a thing. An old friend just split up with her husband and it makes more sense for me to send her a Pyrex set now than it did a few years ago

Partial section of the face of a full-size chocolate cat being held over the face of an actual cat.

Phantom of the Opurra

I almost certainly will never move back South, but every summer in Boston I feel the absence of fireflies.

Wrapped chicken labeled “Meatbird.”

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this is an attack on my culture

Hey, Spelling Bee, noetic is a word.

By all means, keep blaming Democrats for Republican votes. That’ll help.

Yeah, well, I’m sure Collins had notice that Murkowski was a yes, because she would never have voted no otherwise. Collins will vote against Republicans, but NEVER as a deciding vote.

Someone can across an old warehouse full of unsold Hai Karate from the 70s and gave Trump a bargain he couldn’t refuse.