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Now playing:

Cover for the jazz album Juba Lee by the Avram Fefer Quartet: Avram Fefer, Marc Ribot, Eric Revis, and Chad Taylor; showing a black stylized slightly cartoonish illustration of a human figure on an orange background with arms outstretched, holding what appears to be a fan in one hand and a rattle or magnifying glass in the other, wearing a long tunic with many small crescent moons or birds like chainmail
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This morning, my mind is like, um, it’s like, oh what’s the word? Something fancy and cool. And super smart. C’mon. Think. Quicksilver? A sieve? An abandoned power station?

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RIP Tom Phillips.

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Well. Isn’t that just some of the best news I can’t tell anyone yet.

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blue sky marbled with high cirrus clouds; the contrail of a transcontinental airplane passing left to right in the lower right; a faint sundog barely visible in the upper left
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Cover image for Brian Eno's album Ambient 1: Music For Airports
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Crescent moon through bare branches out my kitchen window this morning, unphotographable.

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cover image for the jazz album Opposites Attract by Ned Rothenberg and Paul Dresher
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Last, next.

90: Pitch Black (lined)
91: Snowy Evening (15,902)

Pitch Black, Snowy Evening
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Laszlo will have to wait. Tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

A copy of Susan Cooper's novel The Dark is Rising resting on top of Krasznahorkai's novel Satantango
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the cover image for KILN's album Meadow_Watt showing many horizontal lines of orange, brown, and dark yellow colors
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Cheer Up, You Melancholy Dane!

We just bought our tickets for the Guthrie’s production of Hamlet in April. We’ll be preparing by rereading some of our favorite monologues and — of course — rewatching the first season of Slings & Arrows.

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cover image for the avant-jazz album Void Patrol by Colin Stetson, Elliott Sharp, Billy Martin, and Payton MacDonald
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The books I brought with me, in case you were curious. (The Midgley is a reread.)

Three books in a stack: Without End by Adam Zagajewski, Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, and Science as Salvation by Mary Midgley
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My wife and I will be out running errands all morning, so — of course — I’ll have three books with me, just in case.

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Now playing:

Cover image for the album The Witch Doctor by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers showing Art Blakey in shadow, along with what I can only assume is meant to be an African witch doctor's mask
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cover image for the Sequentia album Dante and the Troubadors
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Covid test? Negative. Feel like crap? Positive.

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cover image for the album Hanging Gardens by the Australian jazz band The Necks showing textured canvas painted with colors that suggest an evening sky or sunset
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The total lunar eclipse is in turn eclipsed by the solid cloud cover.

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Today, I had to abandon a book on a topic I’ve been obsessed with for many years. The book is incredibly valuable: exhaustively researched, written by someone who’s a leading expert on the subject.

And yet…

The writing is atrociously, embarrassingly bad. I just couldn’t go on.

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Now playing:

cover of the jazz album Deadeye, bright pink with a cube obscuring a faint image of an eye
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Now playing: Esmerine, If Only A Sweet Surrender Be True

image of the pilings under a pier with ocean
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cover for the album Miles_Gurtu, two hands beginning to touch fingertips behind a red circle
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cover image for the album Absent Minded by jazz duo Mikrokolektyw