It has been a while since I read it, but IIRC a lot of free/loft jazz players show up. I think Lester Bowie has a significant part.

The Bear Comes Home

Open string, obviously!

Is this the Graeme Ewens one?

I am proud that, for my entire career, when someone asked for Ayn Rand I refrained from saying: "If you can't find it yourself, she doesn't want you to have it."

I am happy that my mother-in-law now knows who Mike Watt is.

Looks like Dubai.

Replacing Paul Goodman with David Brooks makes the world a worse place.

These dropped in the late '80s and were a remedial education...

Much easier than Ra. Just about everything was released by a label in a standard format. None of this "every copy has a hand-drawn cover and five of them have a different, otherwise unavailable B-side" business, which is standard on Saturn...
Then there's the super-galacto-fidelity.

and that's just in the plot of "Tommy."

I note that she called the World Stage "World's Stage" and that no one who works at the Times caught it.
And that she called the Hancock Institute at UCLA a musicology program, which I corrected in a comment when the article first came out but no correction was made. It's a performance program.

That explains David Brooks' career.

That's a damn shame. I wondered what had happened.

Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84

The Times' obit gives a remarkable amount of space to his critics. I'm not saying he was flawless, but I can't really remember seeing one like this.
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Coming in 2027 from SUNY Press: The Worlds of Cecil Taylor, edited by Peter Valente, with contributions from Matthew Shipp, Anne Waldman, Elliott Levin, Alex Ward, David Grubbs, Damon Smith, Marc Edwards, me, and many more. I am optimistic this will be a good book on Cecil...

Oh, I see you were on this yesterday. Apologies...

Same thing with the forthcoming Cecil Taylor set!

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Top story on nytimes.com and they called it racist, not "racially charged" or any of that hooey.

John Baldessari would like a word.

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The correct term is "less lethal." Still a deadly weapon.

This Is Us: Why the Trump Era Ended in Violence The Capitol insurrection was born of a violent minoritarian tradition that is as American as apple pie—and it isn’t done yet.

"Your world" created this. If you can't see the continuity in the US right since at least 1964, Rick Perlstein can help: newrepublic.com/article/1609...

Ice on ice violence.

What are their recommendations for teaching the Symposium?

"Related" how?

Alex is on Lovers.

I think I was at that Destroy All NC show. It was probably the only one. I remember Woody Apanlap taking a solo where he literally ripped all the strings off his guitar.

Kool-aid is from the People's Temple and Spam from the Monty Python sketch, but yeah.