The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

"According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too." www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Kevin Pang on the best places to eat in Chicago Podcast Episode · The Dining Table · April 14 · 27m

AI transcription error of the week: "wheat lacoche."

"Is that you, Toad?"

I did not know that Sentimental Value (2025) opened with a Terry Callier tune.

Nicholas Spice · Butter wouldn’t melt: Schubert’s​ Imagination Schubert’s​ imagination was unusually literary. Words released music in him: poems about desire, love, loss,...

"The essential condition of music," Charles Rosen wrote, "is its proximity to nonsense."

Kronos Quartet - "The President Sang Amazing Grace (feat. Meklit)" [Official Audio] YouTube video by Smithsonian Folkways

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGm...

Surprising how few great baseball novels two centuries of the sport have given us. Four? Five? Anyway, this one's tops in my view. Good piece by the reliable Edwin.

Not sure what to expect with this year's smaller fair, but this sparked my interest a bit.

Chicago Jazz Alliance International Jazz Day 2026 | Global Host City

Ah -- there we go. www.chicagojazzalliance.org

Chicago is the host city for International Jazz Day 2026, and there's a whole week's worth of concerts, talks, etc. from Sat 4/25 to Fri 5/1. The only detailed schedule I've found is in the press kit, but it's well worth a look. carolfox.app.box.com/s/lo5nzmy8pj...

Everyone’s a critic.

Orange wine is the rage.

Beam me up.

1996: I use AOL and think it's the internet
2006: I use the internet
2026: I use social networks and think it's the internet

Loved the Miller line that Iglarsh quotes here: "Time stretches out very long before the uncreative person.”

Pret's egg salad with cress was such a welcome option in my days of business travel.

Somehow I got the idea that the Poetry Foundation was not doing events anymore, but here they are with a roster of events. www.poetryfoundation.org/events

And the crypto PAC Fairshake is hammering Stratton, which only makes her more appealing.

This is deeply depressing.

What a combo!

Painting in a naive style of a female figure in a forest setting wearing a burgundy gown, carrying a sprig of garland in her right hand and holding with her upraised left hand a large French flag that is flapping behind her. A lion is sitting at her feet. Henri Rousseau - The French republic (circa 1904).

Rather reminds me of Henri Rousseau's "The French Republic" (~1906).

The last para should be depressing but somehow it's the opposite. "Lost in the same throng." Yes! 😀

Johnson's Rambler #159 is a comfort. "Those who are oppressed by their own reputation, will, perhaps, not be comforted by hearing that their cares are unnecessary." www.johnsonessays.com/the-rambler/...

The opposite of any generally acknowledged truth is worth a column to a WSJ opinion writer.

What can you do with a history degree?

Greyhound Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives wh…

Thought-dispeller. softskull.com/books/greyho...

WITF

Should say, such a nice piece by Jo Applin.

Lincolnesque.

"When I do not 'attack,' I do not feel alive." Love that Louise.