If democracy dies in darkness as the erstwhile Post erstwhilely phrased it, how's about we cultivate some hydroponic strains of the stuff? Democracy, I mean. With enhanced side effects.

I think it kind of poops out toward the end.

You and John Updike.

Someday, “It’s made out of PEOPLE!!” will be welcome news.

Why say "iconic" when you can say "high colonic"?

Such a good album.

‘The Ultimate MAGA’: Global And Domestic Right Gathers, Ready For A New Trump Era NEW YORK — Sunday night offered a sneak preview of what life might be like in President-elect Donald Trump’s second term at the annual black tie gala of Manhattan’s most MAGA political club.

Coals to Newcastle, of course, but good idea to stock up.

We're gonna need a bigger gravy boat.

5. Entertain Sleater-Kinney: The Woods (Sub Pop, 2005); composed by Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, and Janet Weiss By the time I caught them live, I ...

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4. West End Blues Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five (OKeh 8597, 1928 – b/w “Fireworks”); composed by Joseph Nathan “King” Oliver In the context of jazz history...

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2. (Talk To Me Of) Mendocino Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros., 1975); composed by Kate McGarrigle Closing the first side of this great, simultaneously gemütlich a...

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1. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991 (Columbia, 1991; recorded 1962); composed by Bob Dylan In the hallowe...

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Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Encounters with Aliens ‘How do you know you’re not mistaking me for someone else?’ Scully asks in wild disbelief, looking like God’s...

This presents as a musing-all-over-the-place piece, but never goes wrong, so maybe that's not what it is at all.

Pretty great performances, but about as painful to watch Randy read the teleprompter as it must have been for him to do it.

Opinion | Don’t Let Donald Trump Drive You Into Internal Exile Focusing on your own life and disengaging from politics can be appealing. But it is a abdication of responsibility.

Useful.

Prof. Irwin Corey:
"I feel a lot more like I do now than when I first got here."

Does your Stilton lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

I come out a bit younger, but still middle aged.

Vanity Fair. Yep.

Well, DID you talk him out of it?!?

Nymphs of the Chumbox Moon No. 168

Field Notes from the first fortnight of the interregnum, with election week insect eggs, clickbait Rorschachs, autumnal coral snakes, wild robots, and a cold morning walk under the light of the year's last supermoon. Plus some book news: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/nymphs-of-...

Karl Kraus:
"How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.”

No I will not sign this petition.

Irrelevant, but not wrong.

Everyone needs to get better at kissing!

Did you clock it?

Rick Scott is not going to be Senate majority leader. That's the maximum level of positivity that any political news is likely to attain for the foreseeable future.

This platform's lack of an edit function (like that Other Platform) limits what I'm likely to post relative to Facebook bloviations, so after, "Hey - this really isn't X!" , well . . . uh . . . ?

I'd go with G.