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@exjon @walterkirn Beat me to the punch. BTW - in Tucson this week and thankful for your recommendation of Tania’s 66 many years ago. Will stop for lunch before we leave… Also recently finished my second round of chemo and know that you’re running the same race. Hope you are doing well!

@walterkirn Brian Eno calls this "scene-ious" -- artists in one scene working toward a common goal and aesthetic. Iron sharpens iron.

One of the puzzles I find myself mulling over -- too often -- is the question of why artistic genius springs up in geographic clusters rather than in some broad, roughly predictable way. So many great musical talents from Seattle all at once? Whatever may be behind this phenomenon, it doesn't seem to operate with AIs, whose outputs don't arrive in this irregular, qualitatively "lumpy" fashion.

@iowahawkblog Double Musky Inn - Girdwood, AK - 1962 (sorry…Alaska didn’t exist before that).

OK, I need recs for a new (to me) survivor pre-1960 steakhouse to visit. I've done Keen's, Pietro's, Gallagher's in NYC Gene & Georgetti's in Chicago Musso & Frank, Smoke House, Dresden in LA Brennan's, Commander's Place in New Orleans St Elmo, Indianapolis

it takes its place of honor next to the vintage Mountain Dew sign

@Chris_arnade What are you reading?

Reading about early history of Chicago you see that they, the business community, invested far smarter than other cities. First smart decision was engineering the Chicago River into a port, then building the Illinois and Michigan Canal which unlocked its biggest asset—it is on the knife's edge of America's two largest watershed drainage systems (Great Lakes, Mississippi River), so once the canal was built you could go all the way from New Orleans to Buffalo (then NYC with Erie Canal) by ship. Then, in Chicago itself, they invested in mechanized grain elevators and rail, while St. Louis and other cities didn't—instead relying on cheap labor to do everything sack by sack. That completely unlocked another level of growth, and with it the CBOT, ag banking, ag financing, and the entire financial infrastructure of modern ag—futures contracts, commodity grades, crop insurance. That transformed U.S. agriculture by turning crops into a global commodity—They created the architecture for another level of ag production that benefited US immensely

Chicago Board of Trade -- originally a business booster club -- arguably made Chicago. Turning it from just another frontier nothing (like Toledo), to one of America's most relevant cities, and in doing so, changed how all of America did business.

@RileyBanks1 Fightin' words this year...

NFL > college football

@EsotericCD I’m using it as my soundtrack while reading Boy from the North Country (a Dylan-themed novel). Made a playlist of JWH, Nashville Skyline, and Blood on the Tracks - but I keep going back to JWH.

(I am that guy who will seriously argue with you that for all of Dylan's major musical landmarks, his greatest achievement remains the gnomic simplicity and perfection of 1967's JOHN WESLEY HARDING. The ultimate "sleight of hand" album: still waters run deep.)

I can go years without seriously listening to Bob Dylan, but every time I decide to plunge myself back into the obscurities of his discography I am instantly reminded why he is the elite amongst the elite. youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Mrs…

@jarvis_best Did you try watching Fight Club about it?

@ChefReactions This was all stolen from Shakespeare.

@EsotericCD Is there a comma missing?

Here in the Windy City, at Soldier Field, the NFL has invested in a new public service campaign to heighten awareness: STOP HATE BEARS.

@scottlincicome Am I the only one who read "17-foot-tall okra plant has EATEN NC woman..."?

"17-foot-tall okra plant has eastern NC woman shooting for world record" wral.com/story/17-foot-…

@DORAColorado - Prosper's crowd-sourced funding platform is a great deal for Colorado investors borrowers, who can escape the ridiculous interest rates charged by Credit Card companies.

@DORAColorado - Investment in Prosper's crowd-sourced funding platform has been suspended in Colorado due to DORA/Securities not acting on renewal of their registration. Is there a good reason, Tung Chan?

@thomaschattwill I recently finished The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist. It blew half my mind...

When’s the last time you read a book or even essay or article that actually blew your mind, and what was it?

@mgurri @bariweiss "We are now less likely to think that we know when we don't..." I seem to be seeing the opposite - an epidemic of Certainty in the face of limited (and one-sided) information. We should become "less likely" - just not sure that we're there "now".

⁦@bariweiss⁩ is my hometown newspaper, but I disagree with her on this: loss of trust in media is a positive development. We are now less likely to think that we know when we don’t… bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-washingt…

@Empty_America I would say that this question is close to the thesis of The Master and His Emissary - left-brain facts (some human beings have 8 fingers) overrule general truths (people have 10 fingers).

Video of a Russian missile strike on the Zhytomyr airport, presumably by an Iskander-M missile. t.me/milinfolive/77…

@bravenewmalden What’s “a line of copy”?

Wait until she finds out who was in charge.

Me the next time D.C. tells me I have to wear a mask

Still the best moment of the whole series. youtube.com/watch?v=ize5lZ…

@ThatEricAlper I hate to be a one-trick pony (I've used this song in a previous answer), but it's true: youtu.be/JkMXkirbq_o