Many such cases. *sniff*

There is another method.

This talk of Tangled Up in Blue set me to looking up Kevin Odegard, who is known almost exclusively for playing the lead guitar part - and suggesting a critical key and tempo change to Dylan - on that song. His Wikipedia entry is just too much fun, and Odegard himself seems to be a real mensch.

Let us go then, you and I: @gtra1n.bsky.social wrote a fine piece on the "Hudson Valley Scene," published today at @bandcamp.com, pivoting off of "Hudson," a superstarrish album from 2017 circling about Jack Dejohnette as he turned 75. hudson-music.bandcamp.com/album/hudson

Also, if we want to get snippy about it, the Odyssey is (or has certainly become in our day) a secular text, and cannot therefore be "desecrated."

Helen is a child of rape, and why wouldn't Zeus the Rapist have shown up as a Black Swan?

In any given 3-minute span 24-7, odds are good that the Biggest Rube in All the Americas is self-styled President Donald J. Trump. Sad.

Peter, Crusader, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Bugs

Too obvious?

Highland Park is not my precise birthplace, but it's not far from it and was my first home in this world in the days and early years that followed.

أحمد [Ahmed] playing Monk has handed me the entry point I've needed to begin to 'get' this band. ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/play-m...

News is a kind of mystery dance I wanna know about the mystery dance

It is a hard time to bear the name "George Wallace." For the record: apart from my late father - an automotive engineer of great skill, once described in print as having "the bemused smile of true genius" - and the notable comedian, I abjure and disdain other George Wallaces and all their works.

"Anti-White Racism" is the defining myth of White Supremacy: an idea that cannot be embraced, or looked at other than askance, unless - intentionally or because one is a sweet summer child (derogatory) - one endorses, or naively snuggles up against, White Supremacy. A bad bad notion, by any measure.

Not now obscure procedural issue arising under California's 1872 interpleader statute.

And if you're downright disgusted And life ain't worth a dime Get a squirrel with far away eyes

Their flukes were perfect.

Strait of Hormuz Memorial

This rendering of the Reflecting Pool is butt ugly, the Lincoln Memorial is ass backwards, and the World War II Memorial has seemingly descended into the bowels of the earth.

"Relief" [R. Kelly] @samamidon.bsky.social

Play Urself Some Musicke rsteviemooreandjasonfalkner.bandcamp.com/track/play-m...

And it turned into a ballroom blitz

Dutch/Mondrian-themed Steely Dan cover band called De Stijledam.

Mussolini: better posture, kept his clothing freshly pressed, and at least knew how to sport a cap with a bit of dignity.

i haven’t seen this painting in years and forgot how hard it goes

Maybe the real enemy within was the unrepentant Confederacy we met along the way.

Golden calves and feet of clay.

You've got to hammer what you forge, Mm-hmm, must be the Season of the George

After Hours One of the best Scorsese pictures, or The Best Scorsese Picture? YMMV, but mine won't.

Appomattox is something of a dead letter, isn't it?

Signs and portents, from a year ago.

A quick, distracting glimpse of one shapely ankle, and a vigorous, swift, and "well placed" kick with the foot below the other, and he's a goner.

In retrospect, the election of Barack Obama turns out to have been the High Water Mark of Reconstruction, in the same sense as Pickett's Charge/Cemetery Ridge was the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.

I wrest the waters, fight Neptune's borders Sail through the sorrows of life's marauders Unrepenting, often empty Sail on, sail on, sailor

I am at Disney Hall and Michael Gordon is explaining the critical, Rosebudlian importance of "Tubby the Tuba" to his artistic path.

He speaks the hard, but not unexpected, truth.

Dylan's been in a still-mostly-respected 'late period' since 1997 [Time Out of Mind]. Been waiting since 1981 at least for the Stones to get on the ball again. Personally I still love Keith's 'Talk is Cheap' (1988), but the rest might better be silence.

I read this, and in my head I can only hear "Antifa" in the voice of Matthias, son of Deuteronomy of Gath, who was to be stoned to death for speaking the word "Jehovah."

47 years of non-combat engagement with Iran was an ongoing war, but we ended that war ten weeks ago, by starting a combat operation the like of which no one has ever seen that was itself absolutely not a war. Then we stopped that non-war, so any combat operation now is extra-super not a war. Right?

Docket/Register of Actions information from @lasuperiorcourt.bsky.social is inaccessible at this time, and I am very put out. How's a fella supposed to Work Into the Wee Hours under these conditions?

Unknown whether the plant matter will include any festive Ginkgo de Mayo.

For SoCal followers of the Pulitzer Music Prize, 2026 Pulitzer Finalist Billy Childs is on the bill at Disney Hall for LA Phil's Green Umbrella tomorrow night. Program curated by and including Gabriella Smith (reason enough to go). Also promised: John Cage's amplified cactus and other plant matter.

You I fear Are just another Cog on the gear... [David Gilmour solo]

In the Lost Cause Mythos, what is the positive, appealing description being offered for the Cause that was Lost? What, exactly and unsparingly, is it that any reasonably civilized person would want to restore?

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

This is a Bandcamp link to @gav.cloud's "La Bibliotheque Fantastique" release. The album cover photo is mine, September 8, 2016. gav.cloud/album/la-bib...

The Great God Pan and Grogu

When the war is over No battles to be won or lost No one to claim the victory No one cares to count the cost Lindisfarne - "When the War is Over" (1973)