is it old-fashioned to know/remember (and to *care* about knowing/remembering) friends' birthdays? I feel like I'm one of few among my friends who still pays attention to this

add this to your Xmas jazz playlist (if it isn’t there already)

man I wrote a quip about Satie on here at some point and it was a real zinger and I wish I could find it but my skeet didn’t have the word “Satie” in it and there’s so sense in searching my skeets for “music”

still true

12yo was highly amused when he saw me doing neck/deltoid stretches. just wait, kid. just wait

sometimes you need a little privacy for a proper nose-blow

Donate not only to a worthy cause but a just cause.

good morning

hey there were some good ones in here! (somebody just randomly liked one of them; that's why I was reminded of this thread)

Writers! Rejections got you down? Just remember that A WRINKLE IN TIME brought Madeleine L'Engle FORTY (40) rejections before it found a home.

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

I don’t know if I’ve ever been as thwarted by a NYT Spelling Bee puzzle as I was by yesterday’s

Béla Bartók being bored.

so often, I end up posting and talking about Bill Evans’s music from the ‘70s, but fear not! I still adore the first trio and recognize it for the landmark ensemble it was. and in some ways Evans’s playing was never more rhythmically pliant than it was with LaFaro and Motian

a big part of the point here, which you can't quite tell from the angle of this shot, is how close Columbo is sitting to the perp. practically in his lap

hey remember how James Caan put “end of tweet” at the end of every tweet

maybe I should just go ahead and become Catholic because I always feel compelled to make a confession when I’ve screwed something up

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BE NOT AFRAID

time for me to become that parent who tells his kids, “you know the nice thing about a book? it doesn’t require 2-factor authentication or parent approval on Google Family Link! you just open the damn thing an READ”

everywhere outside today looks like the cover of this album, so I may as well play the damn thing. “When lonely feelings chill the meadows of your mind, just think, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

so I don’t quite know what happened, but I’ve ended up rewatching ALL of Stranger Things and now I kind of love it. I originally thought seasons 1 & 2 were mildly fun. but now I’m all in. I don’t care how outlandish and cheesy it is

pretty sure the latest iOS update has made the iPhone’s keyboard worse 🙃

Pack it up, folks that’s it for the construction industry

just saw DEEP IMPACT for the first time (watched it with the 12yo)

George Gershwin playing golf.

go to 23:50 to hear maybe the slowest Bill ever played “Some Other Time.” extremely powerful nevertheless, and like every one of his performances of this tune, a gem

if you ever needed proof that Quentin Tarantino is actually an idiot who somehow made some decent movies, he makes the case very strongly in 5 minutes here:

Columbo-Coltrane Studies is this a thing? maybe I should try to make this a thing

ok, I SWEAR that after Garrison’s solo the band goes into “Acknowledgment” from A Love Supreme and then somehow seamlessly segues into actually playing “My Favorite Things” Rashied Ali is even playing his own version of Elvin’s Afro-Latin clave pattern when he comes in

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I know McCoy Tyner felt that Coltrane moved in late 1965 into musical territory where Tyner couldn’t follow him, but man Tyner plays magnificently on MEDITATIONS

OK OK I know we all hate the corporatization of philanthropy etc. etc. but I can't help but to remind everyone this #givingtuesday that you can donate $$ to your favorite University Presses just as you can with any other nonprofit. So consider showing your local UP some love?

and now for a complete musical about-face (in part to jostle myself out of a bout of Bill Evans–fueled melancholy that I felt coming on): I wish Impulse had recorded this take of “Lush Life”; the sound here is awful but you can hear something very powerful happening, through the murk of the audio

it’s a day for Tony Bennett and Bill Evans

#SaggGenius #SaggSeason “There was a world of junkies and winos, pool hustlers and prostitutes, women and family screaming inside my head, trying to be heard.” A Nigger Un-Reconstructed: The Legacy of #RichardPryor medium.com/@tnimixtape/...

coworker likes jazz, and so a while ago we got to chatting about it a bit and names like Louis Armstrong and Dave Brubeck came up and I have absolutely no beef with that and love Louis but also so have this perverse urge to give him a copy of Coltrane’s Meditations with no explanation or warning

Team #ArchaeoSky, #AncientBlueSky, #AllTheSkys! I have great news - Caitlín Eilís Barrett and Jennifer Carrington's exceptional volume, Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, filled with exceptional contributions and authors has won the #AIA James R. Wiseman Book Award! (1/2)

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

hey you know what’s funny? Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers would both be like 84 today if they were real people

I’ve recently thought, for seeming no reason at all, of when COVID hit the US, and my older kid was a 6yo in kindergarten who got that beginning of elementary school massively disrupted, and none of us knew quite how to navigate that bizarre terrain. he was so young, but it wasn’t so long ago.

mom is interested to hear some of the metal I listen to; will play some on the drive today. which of the following bands should I play? - Electric Wizard - Sunn - Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats* - Windhand *I know Uncle Acid is borderline not metal

Wings of Desire

brokering a detente between the siblings (my kids) like a UN Goodwill Ambassador

Also you can get it (and everything else from Edinburgh UP) at 50% off this weekend for their St Andrew’s Day sale.

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