George Wallace
@wallacegeo.bsky.social
An old lawyer in love with new music, among other things. Snappy patter & wordplay a subspecialty. Not one of those George Wallaces you may have heard of. Occasional longer outbursts via georgewallace.substack.com. Mostly harmless. Neither mod nor rocker.
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George Wallace
@wallacegeo.bsky.social
· Nov 18
[Epigraph to John Gardner's "The Sunlight Dialogues" (1972)] [Pinned tweet @ Twitter since 2016; imported to the butterfly pavilion 2024]
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
Love how Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon revisit The Only Tune every couple of years. This one at Sadler's Wells may be my favourite yet. The dancing skeletons and musicians also in skeleton outfits made the dark melody even more sinister and surreal.
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
The DOJ has a special closet full of these guys, know-nothings for every occasion.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The DOJ has a special closet full of these guys, know-nothings for every occasion.
In the day, when Charles Krauthammer coined "Bush Derangement Syndrome," everyone - very much including the Bushies - knew it was just a clever-clever rhetorical ploy.
Leave it to Donald J Trump to insist against all evidence that, by jingo, his personal Syndrome is the realest thing in all reality.
Leave it to Donald J Trump to insist against all evidence that, by jingo, his personal Syndrome is the realest thing in all reality.
Apparently the lesson Brendan Carr learned from the Kimmel debacle is that he didn't actually have any consequences for abusing his power to violate the 1st Amendment, so he's just going to keep at it.
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
In the day, when Charles Krauthammer coined "Bush Derangement Syndrome," everyone - very much including the Bushies - knew it was just a clever-clever rhetorical ploy.
Leave it to Donald J Trump to insist against all evidence that, by jingo, his personal Syndrome is the realest thing in all reality.
Leave it to Donald J Trump to insist against all evidence that, by jingo, his personal Syndrome is the realest thing in all reality.
Trump & MTG sing da Beatles:
Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight
I'm looking through you
where did you go?
I thought I knew you
what did I know?
You don't look different but you have changed
I'm looking through you: you're not the same
Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight
I'm looking through you
where did you go?
I thought I knew you
what did I know?
You don't look different but you have changed
I'm looking through you: you're not the same
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Trump & MTG sing da Beatles:
Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight
I'm looking through you
where did you go?
I thought I knew you
what did I know?
You don't look different but you have changed
I'm looking through you: you're not the same
Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight
I'm looking through you
where did you go?
I thought I knew you
what did I know?
You don't look different but you have changed
I'm looking through you: you're not the same
Disk 2 of David Sylvian's 'Gone to Earth' was heaven once
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Disk 2 of David Sylvian's 'Gone to Earth' was heaven once
not now windows 11!
back off and give the people what they want
quiet steady well behaved
xp
back off and give the people what they want
quiet steady well behaved
xp
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
not now windows 11!
back off and give the people what they want
quiet steady well behaved
xp
back off and give the people what they want
quiet steady well behaved
xp
Nothing lasts beyond the day but its remains.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Nothing lasts beyond the day but its remains.
What music goes with strategic ponderation of stays and extraordinary writs?
Tonight, let it be the extraordinary Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Tyshawn Sorey.
lindamayhanoh.bandcamp.com/album/strang...
Tonight, let it be the extraordinary Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Tyshawn Sorey.
lindamayhanoh.bandcamp.com/album/strang...
Strange Heavens, by Linda May Han Oh
12 track album
lindamayhanoh.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
What music goes with strategic ponderation of stays and extraordinary writs?
Tonight, let it be the extraordinary Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Tyshawn Sorey.
lindamayhanoh.bandcamp.com/album/strang...
Tonight, let it be the extraordinary Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Tyshawn Sorey.
lindamayhanoh.bandcamp.com/album/strang...
The wages of fighting for princesses is death.
Every single death in the Iliad is itemized and particularized. It is a defining feature of the Iliad.
Princesses, pride, friendship, honor: Death death death.
Every single death in the Iliad is itemized and particularized. It is a defining feature of the Iliad.
Princesses, pride, friendship, honor: Death death death.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The wages of fighting for princesses is death.
Every single death in the Iliad is itemized and particularized. It is a defining feature of the Iliad.
Princesses, pride, friendship, honor: Death death death.
Every single death in the Iliad is itemized and particularized. It is a defining feature of the Iliad.
Princesses, pride, friendship, honor: Death death death.
This is true, I think, except as to the small group of southern Californians who shopped at the fewer-than-a-dozen Trader Joe's - then still owned by Joe Coulombe - in 1975.
Trader Joe's *is* better today, but by a smaller margin if You Knew Them When.
(You could buy Petrus at TJ for like $5 then.)
Trader Joe's *is* better today, but by a smaller margin if You Knew Them When.
(You could buy Petrus at TJ for like $5 then.)
If you transported someone from 1975 to a Trader Joe’s today they’d be staring, mouths agape, like Robin Williams looking at all the coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is true, I think, except as to the small group of southern Californians who shopped at the fewer-than-a-dozen Trader Joe's - then still owned by Joe Coulombe - in 1975.
Trader Joe's *is* better today, but by a smaller margin if You Knew Them When.
(You could buy Petrus at TJ for like $5 then.)
Trader Joe's *is* better today, but by a smaller margin if You Knew Them When.
(You could buy Petrus at TJ for like $5 then.)
I saw Fighting 4 Princesses open for The Everything Apparatchik at MEMECon 2023.
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I saw Fighting 4 Princesses open for The Everything Apparatchik at MEMECon 2023.
What hath Joyce Carol Oates wrought?
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What hath Joyce Carol Oates wrought?
Dreading the Department's inevitable AI slop on X, synced to an unauthorized Randy Newman rewrite:
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason to liiiiive
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason to liiiiive
We murdered six more people in boats
The latest US strikes on alleged drug boats kill 6 in the eastern Pacific
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
www.nbcmiami.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Dreading the Department's inevitable AI slop on X, synced to an unauthorized Randy Newman rewrite:
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason to liiiiive
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason
Boat people got no reason to liiiiive
Eddie Harris: "Freedom Jazz Dance" (1961)
youtu.be/vrKRS_G3rLQ?...
youtu.be/vrKRS_G3rLQ?...
Freedom Jazz Dance
YouTube video by Eddie Harris - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Eddie Harris: "Freedom Jazz Dance" (1961)
youtu.be/vrKRS_G3rLQ?...
youtu.be/vrKRS_G3rLQ?...
Reposted by George Wallace
Mustn't listen to vintage Kraftwerk while driving:
half their sonic palette is indistinguishable from your car's random alerts and direst warnings.
half their sonic palette is indistinguishable from your car's random alerts and direst warnings.
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Mustn't listen to vintage Kraftwerk while driving:
half their sonic palette is indistinguishable from your car's random alerts and direst warnings.
half their sonic palette is indistinguishable from your car's random alerts and direst warnings.
Got a different nostalgia for each of seven decades.
It's exhausting to be that sentimental.
It's exhausting to be that sentimental.
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Got a different nostalgia for each of seven decades.
It's exhausting to be that sentimental.
It's exhausting to be that sentimental.
New Laura Burhenn/Mynabirds music.
That's all I need to know.
YMMV, but there's no accounting, nor any need to account, for any of our tastes.
themynabirds.bandcamp.com/album/its-ok...
That's all I need to know.
YMMV, but there's no accounting, nor any need to account, for any of our tastes.
themynabirds.bandcamp.com/album/its-ok...
It's Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward, by The Mynabirds
12 track album
themynabirds.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
New Laura Burhenn/Mynabirds music.
That's all I need to know.
YMMV, but there's no accounting, nor any need to account, for any of our tastes.
themynabirds.bandcamp.com/album/its-ok...
That's all I need to know.
YMMV, but there's no accounting, nor any need to account, for any of our tastes.
themynabirds.bandcamp.com/album/its-ok...
"The best and only dining at Mt. Rushmore."
This value proposition is brought to you by Xanterra.
This value proposition is brought to you by Xanterra.
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"The best and only dining at Mt. Rushmore."
This value proposition is brought to you by Xanterra.
This value proposition is brought to you by Xanterra.
I am used to political leaders being substantially younger than I am*, but I don't know yet how I feel about the next Mayor of New York being slightly younger than my youngest child.
* We've a surfeit of political leaders older than I am.
* We've a surfeit of political leaders older than I am.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I am used to political leaders being substantially younger than I am*, but I don't know yet how I feel about the next Mayor of New York being slightly younger than my youngest child.
* We've a surfeit of political leaders older than I am.
* We've a surfeit of political leaders older than I am.
nonetheless that last pet shop boys album remains remarkably charming
Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless
YouTube video by ILoveMusic
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
nonetheless that last pet shop boys album remains remarkably charming
It's a long story, but I was reached today by an old old friend, dating back to high school in the mid-'70s and subsequently a contemporary at Berkeley. He went hunting for me, because he and I attended together Bruce Springsteen's concert at the Paramount Theatre Oakland on October 31, 1975. 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It's a long story, but I was reached today by an old old friend, dating back to high school in the mid-'70s and subsequently a contemporary at Berkeley. He went hunting for me, because he and I attended together Bruce Springsteen's concert at the Paramount Theatre Oakland on October 31, 1975. 1/7
Marisa Tomei absolutely deserved her 'Cousin Vinny' Oscar, and it is a crime against Art and the Rule of Law that the other perfect Supporting performance in that picture wasn't even nominated.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Marisa Tomei absolutely deserved her 'Cousin Vinny' Oscar, and it is a crime against Art and the Rule of Law that the other perfect Supporting performance in that picture wasn't even nominated.