Mark Doyle

YouTube video by Eels - Topic Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb

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Fun to see the right blaming the widespread & ongoing power outages in Nashville on DEI workshops at the power company. If they had spent more time preparing for heavy rainfall followed by freakishly low temperatures instead of having DEI workshops, we wouldn't be in this situation, etc.

Just snagged some tickets to see them in March. I'm eager to see if he can remember all those lyrics.

Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/1...

Amazon: Stop Powering ICE’s Deportation Machine Amazon Web Services is a prime driver of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) incarceration and deportation regime by providing ICE with a host of data storage services. Along with other major tech corporations, Amazon has built a revolving door with the US government to entrench Silicon Valley's role in expanding the acceleration of ICE's surveillance, data accumulation, arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of immigrants. ICE cannot wage its war against immigrants without the critical infrastructure support provided by tech corporations like Amazon.

Now's a good time to cancel that Prime membership. www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/wp-content/u...

The Bookshop

Proud of my local bookshop (thebookshopnashville.com) who, despite losing two days to the ice storm this week, are closing tomorrow for the anti-ICE strike. (And also educating people about Amaz*n's complicity with ICE's goonery.)

I've been told by a few people that bought this album in 1973 that my book about it did not ruin the album for them. www.bloomsbury.com/us/john-cale...

Say what you will about the Anglo-Irish gentry, they did have a talent for names. Today I came across Middleton Westrena Biddulph of Rathrobin, Mountbolus, and his brother Assheton of Moneyguyneen House, Kinnitty.

Thank you so much to the @catapultbooks.bsky.social team!
🙏🙏🙏

This is so cool and richly deserved - it's a riveting book.

Fuck ice (both kinds)

Nashville is coated in a thick sheet of ice. Tree branches are booming as they break and crash and rip down power lines. More rain is falling before a big temperature drop that will, it seems, keep us below freezing for a week. Really shoddy behavior all around, 0/10, would not recommend.

This has been on my list for some time. Thanks for this - you've made me still want to watch it but maybe when my mood is just right.

I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons

This is giving me the strong urge to go buy a nice tailored suit and fedora.

Blues Brothers?

Gallows speeches, probably. People couldn't get enough of that stuff.

volume i and volume ii knobs are being adjusted by a person Alt: A clip from the film This Is Spinal Tap showing that all of their amps go up to eleven, one more than most amps.

Realizing this phenomenon was predicted, like most phenomena, by Spinal Tap.

You know when you're in a restaurant playing really loud music and everyone gets louder and louder as they try to be heard over the music and other conversations? It's a sort of noise arms race. That's what the internet feels like all the time.

#SquadGoals

A young Leonard Cohen once said his ideal audience consisted of "inner-directed adolescents, lovers in all degrees of anguish, disappointed Platonists, pornography-peepers, hair-handed monks and Popists, French-Canadian intellectuals, unpublished writers, curious musicians, etc."

Fair enough

It's just an endless grotesque dance of cruel cunning and rank stupidity with these people, isn't it? It's dizzying and confusing and wrongfooting--you don't know where to aim your blow.

In 1944, after trying and failing to come up with a comprehensive definition of fascist, he finally just settled on bully.

Screenshot of an article in the New York Times, February 26 1935. Headline: Hitler's Birthday Made Biggest German Holiday. Article text: Chancellor Adolf Hitler's birthday, April 20, will henceforth be for the Third Reich what the Kaiser's birthday was in the empire, the most important national holiday on which honors, appointments, promotions, titles and pay increases are to be bestowed on worthy Nazis. This was decreed today by interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, “to emphasize official attachment to the Fuehrer. Simultaneously, Dr. Frick appointed four other national holidays as follows: National Uprising Day, Jan. 30; Labor Day, May 1; Harvest Thanksgiving Day, a blank date, and the anniversary of the National Socialist uprising in Munich, Nov. 9. These days may likewise be used for bestowing benefits on the deserving.

He's laying the groundwork to make his birthday a federal holiday, isn't he?

Today a project I've been grasping and stumbling through for six (6) years finally started to come clear. If I manage my time and resources wisely, if the creek don't rise and the levee holds, if people still read and books still exist, it might be a book before the decade is out.

For some reason I'd explored Bob Weir's solo and side projects much. I'm all over Ace (the 1972 solo album) at the moment - where else should I look?

The Information by Martin Amis. The guy was deeply flawed but there's a joy and freedom to his prose (even when he's being very dark) that I'm quite envious of.

Next time I read and love a book by a living writer (it does happen), I must send a similar email.

I had a really nice email this morning from someone who had read and appreciated a book of mine. A rich detailed knowledgable email that made me feel quite good about the book and the world in general.