Open thread 9/12/22
There’s so much we don’t know about the past. But it’s also amazing how much we do know about the past:
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Theme and variations on “Little Girl Blue”
I first heard the song “Little Girl Blue” when I was in high school, sung by Nina Simone. My high school boyfriend introduced me to her records, and I was immediately taken with her unique musical style. No one sounded … Continue reading →
The Biden administration’s lawfare against Trump allies continues
They want to frighten people into never, never ever working for Trump again. Those MAGA Republicans are, of course, the enemy out to destroy America, and they deserve everything they might get – after all, Biden said so in his … Continue reading →
Tomorrow it will have been 21 years since 9/11
Tomorrow is 9/11. Twenty-one years is a long long time, and a lot has happened since then to America and to the world. And yet 9/11 still marks a kind of turning point. Never such innocence again, after 9/11. Here’s … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/10/22
This is from 1940, when the dial telephone was introduced. It seems not only from another time, but from another planet. Here’s the part where a woman goes on and on explaining much more than you ever needed to know … Continue reading →
I’m out west for a while…
…visiting family and friends. Yesterday was a long journey, and the easiest part was the plane ride. But the bus that takes me to the airport had changed one of its policies unexpectedly. The airport was unusually crowded and I … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) New British PM Elizabeth (there’s that name again!) Truss has lifted the fracking ban. That certainly seems reasonable. But it’s not all that common for leaders to do something reasonable, is it? The end of the fracking moratorium is … Continue reading →
More thoughts on the life and death of Queen Elizabeth II
I think the sorrow a lot of people feel on Queen Elizabeth’s death is that, even for those of “mature” years, she was always around. I was a tiny child when she was crowned, and I’m certainly a child no … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/9/22
She is so impressive and also so good at breaking down what she’s doing in order to teach othes:
Continue reading →“Aureole” through the years
Here’s one of my two very favorite Paul Taylor works (the other is “Esplanade”). The video is a very short compilation of brief clips from performances over the decades – the piece is now 60 years old. I’ve seen the … Continue reading →
Europe is in trouble
Indeed, it is. I don’t understand how people can think that it’s smart to reduce your own energy supply in order to become dependent on the supply of others. How on earth would that even help the environment, if the … Continue reading →
More murders in Memphis
Ezekiel Kelly is in custody after a shooting spree in Memphis in which several people appear to have been murdered: Police said they received reports he was recording his actions on Facebook. In a Facebook Live video seen by a … Continue reading →