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Layla and Other Love Songs is a perfect album to listen to while a Fresh Direct truck is idling in front of your building. The engineering is bad, and the truck doesn’t hurt it
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Listening to Van Morrison’s Summertime In England and his repeated “it ain’t why why why it just is” and remembering his pushing back a few, five years ago against covid restrictions. I guess it’s not always just is.
Jill Lepore’s book on the history of the US through a constitutional lens (“We The People”) is densely packed, but the pages on the abandonment of Reconstruction, as seen in the failure to try Jefferson Davis (cf pages 247+) are very sad. #booksky
What’s the Persian for ha ha ha
On my 80th I’ll be happy to just listen to Bach’s cello suites (Bylsma, 1979, preferably)
Frank Lynch
I was familiar with the music from this cantata from my years working in classical record stores, but this was my first time hearing it live, and also my first time following along with the libretto. I was genuinely shocked! The text is *starkly* existential, in a way that feels quite contemporary.
Frank Lynch
Frank Lynch
It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.
If any of you would like to see 28 pics of Trump's "American Blue" pool, Getty have you covered www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...
Frank Lynch
Frank Lynch
Frank Lynch
Darcy James Argue
Mehr releases what it says are details of the Iran-US MoU:
