“And this is not a science lesson anymore / Forget the last diagram / These are survival tactics” – Kenny Bradley, “Cells are products of their environments too”
2024 Year In Review
“This reality is so fixed & it can’t always / be a matter of escaping to other realms, right.” – Alina Pleskova, “Blood Moon”
Friday Links: Good Books and Good Music Edition
“I can’t remember the words of things. The words for words. I have lost my words. What’s this from? Is is the Internet?” – Aimee Bender, “Wordkeepers”
A Quick Note On Reading
“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me…” – Jorge Luis Borges
Friday Links: Haunted Hotels Edition
“The Alicia was so much smaller than most of the other buildings around her, and so much more interesting. She was special.” – Juan Martinez, ‘Extended Stay’
In Defense of Wrong Notes, Sloppy Playing, and Imperfection
“We play by the ‘suggestion’ method: one person changes chords, and gradually, the rest of the band comes around to that suggestion.” – Dave Barry, interviewed on the Cracked podcast, paraphrased
Friday Links: Kitchen Nightmares For Thanksgiving Edition
“He readed in his front chest pocket, fished out a Marlboro, and lit it. ‘So what the hell we been serving then?'” – Anthony Bourdain, ‘Bone In The Throat’
Some Things I Like and Don't Like About Jazz
“basketball is like jazz” – ancient That Guy proverb
Friday Links: Noir Poetry Edition
“I like flycrusted, offal poetry / I like dead, stuffed & waterlogged poetry” – Adrian Sobol, “GARBAGE POETRY”
The Unreported Resistance and The Moral Case For Democrats
“Ford was President, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was runnin this country into the ground” – Stumpy, ‘Out Cold’
