Dan Jewett
I love this man. A wonderful interview. I can’t wait until the ’67 Holland recordings are released in November.
… the rest ““It Takes a While to Perfect Your Soul.””Rollins now lives alone in upstate New York, listening to sports (mostly baseball, as a recovering Mets fan) and news on
People are dying and homes are being lost, and this absolute fuckwit of a president is playing golf and bitching because Californians didn’t go out and rake their forests kiss his ass.
Also, the hoax virus is on track to … the rest “The Worst Is Not Behind Us: California Wildfires Continue To Burn”
I discovered the link to this article on music historian Ted Gioia’s Twitter feed.
That’s My Home is the Louis Armstrong House Museum Virtual Exhibits site and is well worth your time.
… the rest “Dude”He told me he overwintered twice in the Arctic, alone in a tent. When I asked if the solitude and elemental isolation got to him he seemed unfazed and instead described the privilege of being able to observe such a
I read the first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical novel and found it captivating. If you are looking for something with a unique approach to writing you might find it interesting.
After reading this New York Review article I’m … the rest “The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic”
Rebecca Toh’s work. Everyday elegance.
Can we get this man a beer all the beer?
Writing for Rolling Stone, Ryan Bort nails it. And by “it” I mean what we’ve known all along.
… the rest “Trump is Clueless About COVID-19”It might be time to do away with the idea that President Trump is a master media tactician and fully embrace the
(Article at this link is available to all readers. No paywall.)
Pissed-off, terrified, depressed, or any combination of the above?
… the rest “How the Pandemic Defeated America”Despite ample warning, the U.S. squandered every possible opportunity to control the coronavirus. And despite its considerable advantages—immense resources, biomedical
… the rest “Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America”I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers
These are good advices.
“Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is, therefore, the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that … the rest “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice”
Walt Whitman’s poetry frames scenes from 1920s New York in this film classic.
Billed as ‘a study of the modern Babylon-on-the-Hudson’, the short film Manhatta (1921) captures the rapidly developing cityscape of New York in the early 1920s. Made in … the rest “Manhatta (1921)”
For typography buffs…
You may also like Illuminati Bold, a type of smeared sans-serif.
“I’d spent tens of thousands of hours consuming the news. I asked myself two questions: do you understand the world better now? And do you make better decisions? The answer in both cases was no.”
—Rob Wijnberg
Or, if you … the rest “Quit the News (Rob Wijnberg via Rebecca Toh)”
Today is E.B. White’s birthday.
“Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.”
John Gruber shares. “Part of the un-Trumping of America should be to stop treating Putin as an elected official.”