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Fell asleep during the movie
When i woke up, tubi has autoplayed The Golden Child.That's a trippy movie to wake up to...
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A few weeks ago, a bag of "Flamin Hot Dill Pickle Crunchy Cheetos" was brought into our household by my wife.
While we have no qualms about enjoying junk food - even the worst kinds of junk food - this was mainly meant as a joke, maybe a dare.
But we are out of all other snacks in the house, and so I am currently eating Flamin Hot Dill Pickle Crunch Cheetos.
AMA, my palate is an open book.
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A discussion elsewhere just reminded me of this classic Common performance w/Macy Gray on Leno, and it just made me get super nostalgic for a very particular musical moment, and maybe a personal one, too.
Common - Ghetto Heaven (TSOP Remix version w/Macy Gray)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLBvx1bJ4fY
I remember getting so excited by this and had the foresight to record that ish on VHS. I ran it back IMMEDIATELY, and again, and again.
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Janet's "I Get Lonely" is such a jam
Saba and NoID repurposed it o their "Breakdown", off their album last year, and it's kind of wild no one did that before.
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Omar - Tiny Desk Concert just dropped!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e1ejLjjriw
He's got a new album out this year, haven't listened yet -- good reminder.
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Sprung From the Attic, Flannery O’Connor’s Artworks See the Light
(Some cool backstory here, and a few images of her visual art, too)
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Sprung From the Attic, Flannery O’Connor’s Artworks See the Light
(Some cool backstory here, and a few images of her visual art, too)
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Rhubarb plants don't grow very big the first year, but my mature ones are each about four feet across in the early summer, I have three and that is enough to make several pies, a rhubarb upside down cake, and some sauce to put over vanilla ice cream, etc. It depends on how much you like rhubarb, and how much space you can spare in your garden. Don't pick much the first year, and don't pick it all!
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Although I reading two hefty books right now, the end of the semester has me wanting to line up a whole list of books to binge once grades are submitted.
With that in mind, Pulitzer prizes/finalists just announced. For Fiction, *Angel Down* (Daniel Kraus) wins, with Katie Kitamura's *Audition* and Torrey Peters's *Stag Dance* as finalists.
Angel Down and Audition were both on my big "would like to read" list. Don't know that I've heard of Stag Dance? Not ringing a bell, anyway.
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Janet's "I Get Lonely" is such a jam
Saba and NoID repurposed it o their "Breakdown", off their album last year, and it's kind of wild no one did that before.
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Janet's "I Get Lonely" is such a jam
Saba and NoID repurposed it o their "Breakdown", off their album last year, and it's kind of wild no one did that before.
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Janet's "I Get Lonely" is such a jam
Saba and NoID repurposed it o their "Breakdown", off their album last year, and it's kind of wild no one did that before.
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Janet's "I Get Lonely" is such a jam
Saba and NoID repurposed it o their "Breakdown", off their album last year, and it's kind of wild no one did that before.
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If I wrote recipes, I'd go out of my way to use the verb "pulverize" at least once.
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More proof: an inventory of oversized items in the #ALA archives at #UIUC includes the KRS-One poster:
https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/1203012a.pdf
Also lists a lot of other READ poster stars including some surprises, like Mikhail Baryshnnikov? Huh.
Fabio.
Billy Dee Williams.
So, now to find an actual copy of the KRS-One poster.
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Forgetfulness is like a song
That, freed from beat and measure, wanders.
Forgetfulness is like a bird whose wings are reconciled,
Outspread and motionless,--
A bird that coasts the wind unwearyingly.Forgetfulness is rain at night,
Or an old house in a forest,-- or a child.
Forgetfulness is white,-- white as a blasted tree,
And it may stun the sybil into prophecy,
Or bury the Gods.I can remember much forgetfulness.
-- Hart Crane, "Forgetfulness" (1918)
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Only just noting that Crane's entire output is about just around 150 pages, including the unpublished stuff.
By comparison, the "selected letters" in the Library of America Crane volume take up 550+ pages!
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For no other reason than that it is here, here is an excerpt from his letter on May 14, 1921, to Wilbur Underwood:
"Yes--- I keep on reading the *Dial*. Occasionally, also, the *Freeman*. The new New Orleans attempt called the *Double-Dealer* has some good poems in it this month by Padraic Colum. Has a copy of Carlos Williams' *Contact* strayed into Washington yet? They started printing it on the multigraph but now, I hear, have graduated to the printers,---and are also giving reproductions of paintings etc. Some really good things in it. Address G.P.O 89. N.Y.C. $.25 per copy."
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#NowListening to a new record, just dropped yesterday, from Zo! and Tall Black Guy. Album is called "Expansions" -- and as expected, so far, it's top notch!
If you're looking for uplifting grown-folks R&B/soul, light house, etc., they're always a good listen.
Plus, plenty of great collabs: Raquel Rodriguez, Darien Brockington, Jazzy Jeff, so many more.
Good chance this is my daily player for a minute.
Here's "High On Your Love" w/Brockington and Jazzy Jeff on the turntables:
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#NowListening to a new record, just dropped yesterday, from Zo! and Tall Black Guy. Album is called "Expansions" -- and as expected, so far, it's top notch!
If you're looking for uplifting grown-folks R&B/soul, light house, etc., they're always a good listen.
Plus, plenty of great collabs: Raquel Rodriguez, Darien Brockington, Jazzy Jeff, so many more.
Good chance this is my daily player for a minute.
Here's "High On Your Love" w/Brockington and Jazzy Jeff on the turntables:
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#NowListening to a new record, just dropped yesterday, from Zo! and Tall Black Guy. Album is called "Expansions" -- and as expected, so far, it's top notch!
If you're looking for uplifting grown-folks R&B/soul, light house, etc., they're always a good listen.
Plus, plenty of great collabs: Raquel Rodriguez, Darien Brockington, Jazzy Jeff, so many more.
Good chance this is my daily player for a minute.
Here's "High On Your Love" w/Brockington and Jazzy Jeff on the turntables:
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#NowListening to a new record, just dropped yesterday, from Zo! and Tall Black Guy. Album is called "Expansions" -- and as expected, so far, it's top notch!
If you're looking for uplifting grown-folks R&B/soul, light house, etc., they're always a good listen.
Plus, plenty of great collabs: Raquel Rodriguez, Darien Brockington, Jazzy Jeff, so many more.
Good chance this is my daily player for a minute.
Here's "High On Your Love" w/Brockington and Jazzy Jeff on the turntables:
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#NowListening to a new record, just dropped yesterday, from Zo! and Tall Black Guy. Album is called "Expansions" -- and as expected, so far, it's top notch!
If you're looking for uplifting grown-folks R&B/soul, light house, etc., they're always a good listen.
Plus, plenty of great collabs: Raquel Rodriguez, Darien Brockington, Jazzy Jeff, so many more.
Good chance this is my daily player for a minute.
Here's "High On Your Love" w/Brockington and Jazzy Jeff on the turntables:
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Been looking for some good barn restoration resources.
This is one of the better-looking things on Youtube, a five-part series including some common problems with older Midwestern barns.
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I know we're wary of NYT links, but sharing this gift link for an excellent op-ed on birthright citizenship and the 14th amendment, from historians Martha Jones and Kate Masur.
Will be using this in my US History I class in a few weeks, for sure, when we cover #Reconstruction.
"Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong."
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Forgetfulness is like a song
That, freed from beat and measure, wanders.
Forgetfulness is like a bird whose wings are reconciled,
Outspread and motionless,--
A bird that coasts the wind unwearyingly.Forgetfulness is rain at night,
Or an old house in a forest,-- or a child.
Forgetfulness is white,-- white as a blasted tree,
And it may stun the sybil into prophecy,
Or bury the Gods.I can remember much forgetfulness.
-- Hart Crane, "Forgetfulness" (1918)
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Finished *The Pearl* this morning. Loved it, and was especially smitten with his adventures in leitmotif: music of the pearl, music of the family, music of evil.
Replace the pearl with a ring and it has me thinking about Das Rheingold. Steinbeck used music a lot in *Cannery Row*, too, esp. classical references.
My first reading was ages ago. Definitely didn't remember that.
Apparently you can see the Steinbeck's personal music collection at the link, which is cool. Very eclectic! No Ring cycle in sight though. 😆
https://www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/resources/steinbeck-music-collection.php
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"In the town they tell the story of the great pearl--how it was found and how it was lost again."
-- First sentence of Steinbeck's *The Pearl*
#ThePearl #JohnSteinbeck #ReadingNotes #FirstSentences #Bookstodon
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Started this morning. Will probably read quite quick, but notes will go here.
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Finished this (*East of Eden*) this morning --- this was stellar.
I mean, sure, it's a classic. But I was not planning to end 2025 and bring in 2026 with a 650 page, multi-generational epic that is about good and evil and our personal battles with each, and that is also about our familial/cultural/national inheritances, and also about national identity and difficult histories, and also about the very difficult thing that is family relationships even at their best...
and also, is just one really long exegesis of Cain and Abel (and maybe all of Genesis)...
but I am so glad I did.
I think this and my recent reading of Cannery Row have made me a full-fledged Steinbeck fan.