what are the earliest literary attestations of the specific markings of the hooded crow (C. c. cornix)? I thought of these just as "Berlin ravens" until yesterday, when I encountered one so large that it made me wonder for a moment if the bird had taken steroids. Or if I had gotten smaller.

What there is to say. youtu.be/P4MQRMK6YO4

D'Angelo... that's not right. if it's true, rest in peace and thanks for the music. Grateful to have lived in the same time

Turn Blue

Questions like this bring out the worst in all of us. What opinion do you hold neither strongly enough to speak without a prompt, nor weakly enough to let go? What views do you hold in bitter silence, in an untested field of prohibition and resentment? Invites limp transgression. All around us now

some great home runs, and what a team. but they all took steroids, and they lied about it. now no one will understand

learned something today which I really wish were not the case. but it is the case, these things were done, and all of that was entangled with something that matters. that something's mattering will now be much harder to see, or to divide from this unpleasantness about which the less said the better.

telephone wires

Playing out ahead of my chops here but nonetheless stringing a few thoughts together.

Something beautiful will happen next week, and again the week after.

Ruth Garbus ruthgarbus.bandcamp.com/album/kleinm...

I think neither: kids in Company appear largely as the limit to the liberty of the married couples, to a man too old to be young, who is recognizing an obsessive relationship to liberty as his own limit. Children are thought more in Into the Woods.

on some peninsula

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

I am thinking of disentangling criticism of mass culture from criticism of those masses it is served to and serves, and of isolating elements just as stupid and formulaic in the older traditions, maybe giving a different view of what is essential, recovery of minor traditions in light of reinvention

I don't think this is right. IMO poptimism enacted several worthwhile critical moves but underestimated the need to think against its future cooptation. bad poptimists are called poptimists and bad classical critics are called snobs. but there is a redeemed version of each

as if anyone under 40 uses this site

Listened to the new Taylor Swift record. I think I will increase my dose of creatine from 3 grams to 5. Whatever it takes

New ABC, new Alice record, what can’t this day do? alicecohen.bandcamp.com/album/archae...

I love Fred Hersch so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEg...

[Listening to the Taylor Swift album at 2.5x so I can get this review out before everyone else] I have to say, her pitch is too high on every single song. Disappointing. Incredible breath control singing that fast though

Something wonderful might happen tomorrow.

Just realized this is kind of the story of my life so no comment