Larry Kooper

The neighborhood has been consulted extensively. Enough delay, delay, delay tactics

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But, believe it or not, livejournal.com is still there, and people are updating blogs on it!

All Typepad sites have vanished from the internet. I imagine they're available in the Wayback Machine.

Reading de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. It was the genius of the nation’s founders to make the presidential electors all meet in different places. That shields them from “passion and intrigue.”

That’s what tinpot dictators like Trump do. Like Trujillo.

Blocks of ice and snow, Second Avenue, NYC

Trump is planning to steal the midterms and probably the 2028 election as well. Who will stop him? It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Amy Rigby Remembers Personal, Musical Wilderness in "Girl to Country" — My Spilt Milk In her second memoir, singer/songwriter Amy Rigby remembers her Nashville years, trying to be a rock 'n' roll mom and Nashville songwriter. Things don't go as planned.

Alex Rawls (@alexrawls.bsky.social) wrote a smart and sensitive review of Amy Rigby's (@amyrigby.bsky.social) new book Girl to Country. www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/amy...
"Nashville needed her, but need and want are very different things."

Depressingly true

Testing simultaneous posting to different services

Thank you, keep at it!

2/2 more thoughts - Is it fear of loss of access to artists? Or is it fear of rabid fans?

Would a music critic today dare to begin a review "What is this shit?" Especially of a respected artist on par with Dylan. Has criticism gotten more timid?

@djpunctum.bsky.social Happy birthday! The snow is dumping down on NYC right now.

I am going to be posting here more often. It's a nicer atmosphere than X, and the Bluesky API is still free. I've written some software using it.

My unpopular opinion: Chase Infiniti did not deserve an Oscar nomination

I love every time Lucinda Williams sings a place name.

"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan

RIP Brian Wilson

I love VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (2023) by Brix Smith

If Cuomo wins we'll just hound him till he resigns again 😀

I saw the movie PAVEMENTS last night. It was really great. Now I'm sad I missed the jukebox musical 'Slanted! Enchanted!' in its three-night run. There were long excerpts of it in the movie.

The Authoritarian Playbook: DOGE, Surveillance, and the Collapse of Democracy Inside Trump and Musk’s plan to centralize power through data

Trump and Musk’s plan for a surveillance state open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

Favorite #Severance fact: Sarah Bock (Miss Huang) has to go to school on set

Lots of the people I follow on Twitter are over here. More than half. Feels like some tipping point is here or almost here.

Happy birthday, Lena!

Her voice (Genevieve Beaudoin) swoops like Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell.

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Genevieve Beaudoin is her name and she is talented. I wish them success.

I am at Baby’s All Right watching a duo called Dead Gowns. Their singer just announced they’re from Maine.

I wasn't aware of Szmierek but he's great! Very Bedsit Disco Monarch