Monday, December 19, 2016

twenty-six reds and a bottle of wine

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God I miss both these guys, so much. ("CALL OUT THEIR NAMES, TESTIFY! COME ON!" Oh, God, Patti, Earth does not deserve y...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

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Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House, Obama needed to ...
Monday, December 12, 2016

books read in December 2016

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Fiction is in  red.  Date of first publication in (parentheses). 79.  The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the ...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

WITNESS Stomp & Sing: This Little Light of Mine

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Saturday, December 3, 2016

PJ HARVEY performing RID OF ME live at Chicago’s Metro in 1993

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Monday, November 28, 2016

not much chance for survival / if the neon Bible is right

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Sunday, November 27, 2016

and then Sir Pterry got reality all over my comfort escapist reading

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But that would be interfering with the course of history. Horrible things could happen. The Librarian knew all about this sort of thing, it ...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Serena Ryder | Sisters of Mercy (live acoustic)

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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Leonard Cohen - Austin City Limits 1411 (Halloween 1988 I'm Your Man tour)

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Austin City Limits #3406: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, "How Do I Let a Good Man Down?"

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Monday, November 14, 2016

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But all the fighting in the world will not help us if we do not also hope. What I’m trying to cultivate is not blind optimism but what the p...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Leonard Cohen - "Closing Time" (CBC live)

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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

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Then the war was just two valleys over, but still they didn’t worry, and then it was in the very next valley, but even so, no one could imag...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

books read in November 2016

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Fiction is in  red.  Date of first publication in (parentheses). 67. The Left Hand of Darkness,  Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) (reread; Penguin...
Monday, October 31, 2016

PJ Harvey Rid of Me Live On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1993)

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Saturday, October 29, 2016

OH MY FREAKING GOD

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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography  by  Edmund Gordon Chatto, 544 pp, £25.00, October, ISBN 978 0 7011 8755 2 In  2006, the Brit...
Friday, October 21, 2016

books read in October 2016

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Fiction is in  red.  Date of first publication in (parentheses). 62.  William Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man, Ja...
Friday, September 30, 2016

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I've never been much for the artificial divide between "literary" fiction and "genre" fiction. You still occasionall...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

pre-election state of mind

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In less than two months, the American experiment in constitutional self-government may hit the wall of history. Even if the disaster of...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Carol Fran - Tou' les jours c'est pas la meme (Every Day Is Not the Same)

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Saturday, September 17, 2016

this music is my healing

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

books read in September 2016

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Fiction is in  red.  Date of first publication in (parentheses). 57.  The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Songs / Collected Stories (The Lib...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

How young are you? How old am I? Let's count the rings Around my eyes

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I heard the Mats singing "I Will Dare" over the PA system at the QFC this afternoon, and it was a wonder I did not crumble into a ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

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The bird that I hope to catch in the net of this play is not the solution of one man’s psychological problem. I’m trying to catch the true q...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

from "The Oracle," by M.J. Engh

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"How can you live....How do you bear it?"  He moved closer, not explicitly smiling, but all his face and body, his very hands, ...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

books read in August 2016

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Fiction is in  red.  Date of first publication in (parentheses). 48. Summer Brave, William Inge (1962) 49. Picnic,  William Inge (1953) ...
Friday, August 12, 2016

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If you have not listened to this concert, GO NOW. NOT EVEN KIDDING.

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This closes the interview. I thank her. She says, "You're welcome," and my editor and I leave the car. We sit on the stairs fo...

Ms. Lauryn Hill on Austin City Limits "Ready or Not"

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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

the universe just wants me to be happy at this point, I can see it

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https://soundcloud.com/wearedelasoul http://www.wearedelasoul.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1519102394/de-la-souls-new-album...