Great music of the day: Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukkc...

You will be visited by three spirits.

Great music of the day: Anna Meredith live, 2017. www.youtube.com/watch?v=imz5...

How can someone resign from a position they have never legally held? Just asking for a friend.

Great music of the day: Larry Coryell and the 11th House, 1973. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrn...

youtube.com/watch?v=DOI-... Another astonishing run by Jane Hedengren.

Today’s acquisitions at the local record store.

My loathing and anger toward Robert Kennedy is volcanic. I loath him and what he is doing to American health. How did such utter fools end up in positions where they can literally kill people?

Great music of the day: Femi Kuti, Afro-Pfingston Festival 2018. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz8w...

Interesting!

We must be the laughingstock of the world now. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Your government at work: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Every faculty member at OU should resign in protest. This is an abrogation of faculty academic freedom, hiding behind a feigned issue related to academic freedom, which it is not. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

And here comes the right-wing obfuscation and deflection, as expected. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Great music of the day: Jorma Kaukonen live 1990. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHWl...

It's a Keith Jarrett morning here in Iowa.

This fellow is utterly clueless. He sees nothing wrong with what he did or said. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Great music of the day: Jeff Beck, with Annika Nilles, who will soon play with Rush. Just before he left us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A36T...

Great music of the day: Hal Mercer Quartet, "Last Call for Cool." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFst...

Great music of the day: The Omnific, "Merlin's Id." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDW...

We had a little snow…

my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica

Been in Dallas for the past 8 years. Moved back to Iowa. This is going to be interesting!

Great music of the day: Mahavishnu Orchestra, live in Chicago 1973. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxd9...

4 generations!

You just can’t make this stuff up. And you can never pick anyone worse than what this administration continually picks. They dont care. I have no idea why they would even consider this idiot. C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

Hey, Anthony Braxton made the NYT! I met him back in the mid 1970s, putting on a duet with Roscoe Mitchell, and I hung with them backstage and made sure they had the food they wanted! I recall them writing music on file cards, throwing the cards up and then playing! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...

Vivi Vassileva: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w8m...

Great music of the day: The Who, Kilburn 1977. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cc0...

Funny to see people showing republican hypocrisy related to the death of Charlie Kirk and the call today by the president to execute his rivals. Do they not understand the right does not care? They don't need to make sense, they don't care to make sense; they just care about power. Nothing more.

Great music of the day: Dream Theater, live at Budokan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCh...

The Senate voted to release the Epstein files! I thought for sure they would attempt to kill it. And they did not even vote on it! Holy cow!

So, MTG is planning her run for president, is she? Can't see that going too far, but who would be worse, her or Vance?

Great music of the day: Lamb of God, Killadelphia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9O...

For whatever reason, People magazine mailed a copy to our new address, and being bored I picked it up. I think my IQ dropped 40 points leafing through that magazine. Insipid is too kind a description. Is this what people want to read?

Just when you think the NYT cannot go any lower, this comes along. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

A glorious morning today in Davenport, Iowa.

I wonder if people understand that all those Australian accents you hear over most youtube clips are not real humans but artificial voices.

Great music of the day: Kamasi Washington, Tiny Desk Concert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8WT...

You know when right-wing ideologues such as Ross Douthout laud actors such as Sydney Sweeney it is more about their use to the right, their politics, than about their acting. Sweeney is not important. But the right thinks she is. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Great music of the day: Chicago, live at Tanglewood, 1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oAo...

More good Mgma, just a day old, but from 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sylr...

Great music of the day: Magma, excerpt of Emehnteht-Re, Part 2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g30g...

Unpopular opinion: Patty Smith's "Horses" turns 50 and is being lionized everywhere. I found it boring and effete. I think her late husband is far more important in the history of rock than she is.

If the democrats cave now, they will be out of power for the next 25 years at the minimum.

Whoosh!

Magma, Gouveia 2015: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2A3...

well, of course! www.youtube.com/shorts/y3l6O...

Great music of the day: Theodoros Tsinias and Floating Roots live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=18R7...