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Paul Hébert
@paulinraincity.bsky.social
Stage lV colorectal cancer guy. Failed academic. Comics, illustration, old books, old music.

www.readingdoonesbury.com
"Jazzgrass"! Sounds like something that would appeal to the David Grisman fan in me.

anyone out there familiar with Robin Flower?
November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Happy Thanksgiving.

#Peanuts
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Actually, Steve Bannon got a lot of things right, but they were all ,without exception, horrible things.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I love old beatnik jokes. Playboy April 1960.

#cartoon #beats
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In the 50s-70s, through festivals, readers' polls, interviews w/ musicians and the writing of some of the most important critics, #Playboy played a big role in promoting #jazz as an integral part of bourgeois "hip" culture.

And sometimes it just dropped the ball. March '60 review of Ornette Coleman
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
1960.

Pretty much all run-of-the-mill programming now.
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue, reviewed in Playboy. December 1959.

#jazz
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Should I?
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Apparently, it's "National Read About My Problematic Cultural Touchstones Day."

Thanks as always to Vancouver's best independent, brick-and-mortar @pfbvan.bsky.social.
October 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, the Grateful Dead.
October 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Related, kind of.
October 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Look what I found tidying up my room.
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Currently.
October 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The American edition of the Mirror has a section dedicated to reporting mass shootings.
October 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Dave Sim did brilliant lettering.
October 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Yesterday, to celebrate another set of clean scans and 18 months of being NED, Zan and I looked at some brutalist architecture and ate noodles.
October 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I love old beatnik gags
October 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Life is good sometimes, y'know.
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A short story in four books in the free library.
October 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM