Record Highs

@SPBPHD Maureen Mahon’s Black Diamond Queens!

need to look at work that does lyrical analysis/close reading of the Stones’ “Brown Sugar”…anyone read anything good recently? not looking for straight socio-cultural analysis, unless it’s combined w lyrical/musical analysis (Specifically looking at the second verse) Thanks!

@wickettred “If music be the food of love, play on” youtu.be/vbqGWTxwZEA

Hungover this morning, feeling better now. Which prompts me to ask… What are your hangover cure or bettering foods?

@cindyaweinstein She could certainly fucking play.

@Jflat67 @hellenspiegel which is like so hilariously ridiculous

Sympathy for the Drummer. Now more than ever, Mike Edison’s very fine Sympathy for the Drummer. rowman.com/ISBN/978149304…

@annietippe @BillyDomineau I’ll consult my dealer

@EricLott2 @BillyDomineau Sign me up for 10 copies pls!

@ChanteMK youtu.be/YSbyB4O5hyA

@EricLott2 So of course, I recalled that talk you gave all those years ago 🤷🏾‍♀️

@spampinato_erin @zacharyfruit Thank you Erin!

Such a fabulous new study by KU colleague David Roediger, The Sinking Middle Class. Pick a copy up at 25% off over at @orbooks mobile.twitter.com/orbooks/status…

@cohenss NYRB rakishly pitched on nice green chair distraction

@BillyDomineau youtu.be/O3ZLuUXQ6js

@majortominor @jerrywofford Thought I could vote twice and fucked it up

@jerrywofford Did you vote?

Cats are

@jack_hamilton With fishing line soaked in fish scale

don jr looks like if the baby who had his eyes sewn open at the beginning of PERRY MASON grew up to be a human man

@jack_hamilton DJT that supervisor we gloried in ways to creatively off during coffee breaks

lol "6 incredible people who were held hostage by various countries"

@jasoncherkis Bad day in Barrytown

@lynnwardley @pamthur Yep comin in Style (We Never Go Out Of)

@pamthur @EricLott2 Also: your glasses!

"In the face of calls for ‘measured responses’ to police brutality and murder, I have been writing a series of poems articulating the grief of attempting to inhabit such a measure" —Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/measured

@jack_hamilton “from now on”

Some news, I’m gonna be editing the New York Times opinion page from now on. If you have some good opinions on things bring them to me

It was all about how terrible Charlie was at jokes. So crushingly good they should name a Lionel Trilling book after it.

Hey does anybody out there have the clip Richard Lewis sent in for the Charlie Haden memorial at Town Hall? I’m guessing not but I would love to see it.