Plus ça change ....

I've been on a major @cornershophq.bsky.social groove these past few weeks. Marvelous to dive back into these sounds and discover more recent records.

And, yeah, Cornershop clocked Morrissey way back in autumn 1992.

John Gardner’s Tricksy Death and Tangled Legacy by Ben Pfeiffer September 14, 2017 –   I think it has given a few readers pleasure. And I suppose it may have depressed a few. I hope it does more good than harm. —John Gardner, when

“'Never do anything cheap with the reader,' John Gardner told his students. 'Don’t kill a kid.'"

As a young person, I followed all these controversies avidly. Perhaps Gardner deserves a second look from me.

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The Nicholls book is superb.

Anti-humanisnto the core.

"i am thinking about directors with whom i have worked on various projects that simply never reply or bother to read my work."

Len - Steal My Sunshine YouTube video by LenVEVO

When you want many other songs to be the most 90s song: "Aftermath," "Mysterious Ways," "Connection." But this last minute entry always bubbles up:

youtu.be/E1fzJ_AYajA?...

Too close to the bone.

BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME book Event at NYC's City Lore Gallery

BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME book Event at NYC's City Lore Gallery

BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME

New York's City Lore Gallery is a magical place. And my first event for BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME is in the books. Thanks to everyone who turned up!

More about my book and how you can get a copy here:

www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn...

First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
Then there is

Even serious scholars talk such arrant trash about Shakespeare. Despite evidence.

BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME by Richard Byrne

TONIGHT: NYC at 6 pm

BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME Book Event
City Lore Gallery 56 E. First Street New York, NY 10003
(On First Street between First and Second Avenues)

citylore.org/events/beaut...

Asking us to focus on *why* Maine progressives favor an unsuitable candidate like Platner when voters would like to hand him six years beyond recall in the Senate (or serve him up like chum to Collins in the general) is like asking us to discuss landscape aridity as a forest fire devours our homes.

This is a slam dunk for the GOP in a general election.

Baseball has huge problems right now.

Liberal Catholics had a long path of John Paul II and Benedict to travel to arrive at Francis and Leo. Pendulums swing.

Absolutely. Insane.

Next stops: Encyclical. Ex cathedra.

www.catholic.com/qa/what-does...

BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME by Richard Byrne

Tomorrow night! Thursday, April 16 The book event for BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME at NYC's City Lore Gallery.

My research on antifascist author Ernst Toller's death mask led to startling new discoveries abut hidden lovers, lost artists and the 50s anti-comics crusade.

citylore.org/events/beaut...

Philadelphia public health poster during so-called "Spanish" influenza (1918-1920) H/T Old Images of Philadelphia (Facebook)

Philadelphia public health poster during so-called "Spanish" influenza (1918-1920).

(H/T Old Images of Philadelphia / Facebook)

One of the greatest records of that decade.

Call All Destroyer YouTube video by Cornershop - Topic

NP: Cornershop, "Call All Destroyer"

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The GOP will be all over the airwaves with his Totenkopf and his rank misogyny. Atwater/Rove playbook. The Dem opposition to Platner simply hasn't had the guile or the guts.

He is a Nazi. Maine will figure this out just in time to reelect Susan Collins -- which should be impossible.

Bank of Tove

The enormous catastrophe of water being H2O ... and yet humans cannot breathe underwater.

I would be delighted if Diplo drove an Uber while we all continue making human art.

"There are no small fascisms, there are no small, benign Nazisms. That is what I try to talk about in my books, the importance of remembering." -- The late novelist Daša Drndić

OK, Marine Boy

It is terrifying to say that this is only the beginning. But the confluence of a present and pervasive societal contempt for knowledge and research with ineffective (even feckless) institutional governance is a catastrophe for liberal arts colleges. And maybe some universities.