We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

John Prine #LookAndSee The Frying Pan song.link/FryingPan #musicchallenge #musicsky

“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.” ― Lone Alaskan Gypsy Saul Leiter

I recently heard a young woman cover this song and she was sooooo good. She said it was the best song ever written, in her opinion. m.youtube.com/watch?v=neq4...

Just my dad’s stern old school thundering after a rejection would have been worth a million views though. “a waitlist! Such are the wages of sloth!”

NEW EPISODE! We caught up w/ @rollingstone.com Senior Research Editor @jonbern.bsky.social about his recent interview with Lucinda Williams on her (and Dylan's) take on "the female Bob Dylan" label. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Second blooming

OK, claiming property rights in a new term (I think). I just did a Substack live with Catherine Rampell, in which she suggested that young men may be pivoting from Bitcoin to prediction markets. And it just popped into my head: the Testosterone Trade.

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

Concepts of central planning

Why did Putin not allow himself such brutal strikes on civilian infrastructure under Biden, whom Trump calls “weak,” but totally destroys peaceful cities and disregards the “strong Trump”? Photo Liz Landers

Hurry up, Come on, Be quick, some men say, but my revenge is to live and sing the things I cannot say. - Henri Cole

Harlem poets.org/poem/harlem-0

Missing Bill Morrissey tonight.

In a Van Gogh down by the river,

Something hopeful from Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet - "We Shall Overcome" from New Orleans brass. They're celebrating at Vaughan's Lounge tonight, then headed to the Grammy's 🤞

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Joni Mitchell — A Case Of You Neil Young — Helpless Gordan Lightfoot — If You Could Read My Mind Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher Tragically Hip — Fiddlers Green

Today I was in the Kyiv Botanical Garden. Plants in the greenhouse are freezing due to constant power and heat outages. Workers are doing everything they can to save them.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Alanna Smith 📰 #wnbl #wnba #unrivaled #FIBAWWC

The second amendment has entered the chat

"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort." -- Jean Cocteau

STOP THE PRESSES!!! Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is concerned!!! (Federal agents are currently operating in a surge to the state of Maine, but let's not get all fussy about it).

And the fact that Washington prefers not to notice the mass shelling of Ukraine during the peace talks is on its conscience. In the photo, children from houses without heating after Russian shelling are warming themselves at special points.

Why isn't Rachel Cohen in the Senate? Too much spine and character for the Upper Chamber.

At home in Kyiv. At night, the Russians fired ballistic missiles and drones exploded. In the morning, the heating went out again. But home, my sweet home, I'm so happy to return back 💙💛

Is this the VP who mistook his wife for a couch four times?

Come From Away: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Set List: "28 Hours/Wherever We Are" "I Am Here" "Me and the Sky" "Something's Missing" "Finale" #musicsky #tinyDeskConcert #comeFromAway

Those were quite challenging days in Davos. But there was also a pleasant moment when I received the World Woman Hero award. Every year, the World Woman Foundation honors a woman who demonstrates leadership, strength and has a significant impact on the lives of women and girls in different countries

Bored of Peace join the Board of War

The modern republican party is not just unamerican, it is anti-American. Its politics and policies are not just unconstitutional, they are anti-constitutional. They need to be torn out root and branch, their leaders and operatives tried, convicted, and punished for their literal crimes, and

fr though I am absolutely convinced that we'd have flying cars by now if SCOTUS hadn't made W president

Pick up the nearest book. turn to page 42, post the second sentence: "This could have served as the hidden epigraph to Whitaker's 'Grey Book'." We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole @fotoole.bsky.social #booksky

Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals" All the President's Men With Big Naturals

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

Important perspective from Greenland.

Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum

Cover of the Spencer Davis Group 1965 hit. (written by Jackie Edwards) #MusicSky youtu.be/DCFgv8ma2Pw?...

Fake news, not possible for those tiny hands to carry a flag. Time for sane nations to start selling US Treasury bonds.

Pacifica - Take On Me Take on me (take on me) Take me on (take on me) I’ll be gone In a day or two #musicsky #pacifica

Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter, American folk and blues singer, musician, and songwriter, was born on Jan. 20 or 23, 1888 or 1889 (d. 1949). #LeadBelly Lead Belly - "Goodnight Irene" (Traditional / Lead Belly) (ca. 1935) #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn50...

He played a few chords then he sang some more— "I got the Weary Blues And I can’t be satisfied. Got the Weary Blues And can’t be satisfied— I ain’t happy no mo’ And I wish that I had died." Langston Hughes - "The Weary Blues"

Wet Leg: Tiny Desk Concert SET LIST "CPR" "mangetout" "davina mccall" "11:21" #musicsky #tinyDeskConcert #wetLeg

The Beaches: Tiny Desk Concert SET LIST “Blame Brett” “Can I Call You in the Morning?” “Lesbian of the Year” “Edge of the Earth” “Last Girls at the Party” #musicsky #tinyDeskConcert #beaches

Iris DeMent - Our Town Up the street, beside that red neon light That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night He was the 'tender and I ordered the beer It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here #musicsky #irisDeMent

John Prine - The Other Side Of Town A clown puts his makeup on upside down So he wears a smile even when he wears a frown You might think I'm here when you put me down But actually I'm on the other side of town #musicsky #johnPrine

John Prine - Crazy as a Loon So I'm up here in the north woods Just staring at a lake Wondering just exactly how much They think a man can take I eat fish to pass the time away 'Neath this blue Canadian moon This old world has made me crazy Crazy as a loon #musicsky #johnPrine

Time for the sane world to start selling US Treasury bonds. Perhaps Schumer, Thune, Jeffries, Scalise and Johnson will stop begging for donations and do their jobs.