Tonight! Arthur's Tavern, NYC 10-12:30. Art Bailey Trio- Brian Floody d, Steve Whipple b, AB pno. No cover, come hang late!
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The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

even stacks of issues of Review of International Broadcasting, a small-format newsletter edited and published by Glenn Hauser, fanned out on a wooden table. Visible covers span from 1978 to 1984 and feature a variety of designs including a Radio Beijing illustration, a Radio Australia kangaroo logo, a Radio Peking tower graphic, and black and white photographs. Issue numbers range from 14 to 95.

Stylized DLARC (Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications) logo on a red mosaic background, featuring a white radio tower emitting concentric signal waves with lightning bolt shapes, above the bold letters “DLARC.”

🧵 Today is World Amateur Radio Day 📻 and Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC) is marking it with new collections 📡

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It’s amazing just how many topics Pinker doesn’t know anything about and yet confidently spews nonsense publicly about. It’s just embarrassing. Ooo ooo ask any historian about his views on the Enlightenment and prepare to be regaled for several hours on how wrong he is 🤣

Music Goes Round And Round YouTube video by Paul Gayten - Topic

Ha! The singer drops a whole bar in the bridge and the rhythm section scrambles to cover it! Interesting that TD let that one get out. I've got a goofy obsession with this tune, I had a copy of it cut out from the back of a cereal box as a kid. Heard this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq_P...

Art Bailey - Arthur's Tavern Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, Art Bailey landed in NYC in 2003, immediately found his footing and has become a very sought after sideman on piano, organ, and accordion. Some of the many musician...

Tonight, my friends. Arthur's Tavern, NYC, Art Bailey Trio- Orion Turre d, Julian Smith b, yours truly on the piano and supplying the freshly minted tunes. 10-12:30pm. Here's a nice outdated publicity photo of me with a 70s ballplayer 'stache for your amusement: arthurstavern.nyc/events/art-b...

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Friends, if you're still buying stuff from Amazon, please consider what you're supporting thereby.

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Photo of three men standing on top of rocky terrain. One is wearing a blue zip-up jacket with a blue chambray shirt and tan chinos. One is wearing a green-black checkered jacket with red chamois shirt, white pants, and cowboy hat. The other is wearing a blue parka with with blue jeans.

Two photos. In the first, three men are wearing bomber jackets with blue or white jeans. In the second image, one man is wearing an off white (possibly chamois?) shirt with blue jeans. Another is wearing a blue denim trucker with blue jeans. A third is wearing a blue quilted parka.

Two photos of groups of men. They are wearing Nordic sweaters, olive bomber jackets, flight suits, black-green checkered jackets, cowboy hats, beanies, and jeans.

Two photos. In one, there's a man wearing a brown tweed with a checked shirt. In the other photo, men are wearing bomber jackets and high-waisted cotton pants.

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

Federal regulators indefinitely delay rule to protect coal miners in WV, beyond from black lung

Implementation of a previously approved federal rule meant to help prevent black lung in the nation’s coal miners has been delayed indefinitely, according to an update posted this week in the Federal Register, reports @caitycoyne.bsky.social.

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"I'm [NAME] from [PLACE, ZIP]. I'm calling to urge the Senator/Rep to contact Adm. Correll & remind him that he has the same legal obligation as any soldier to refuse an illegal order from this Commander in Chief."

Congress must convene immediately to condemn Trump’s horrific threats against tens of millions of people and stop this unconstitutional war.

We must prevent Trump from unleashing the catastrophic and illegal violence he is touting.

Silence from all our leaders. A breathtaking display of craven servility and fecklessness befitting their moral stature.

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Tchotchke Island

Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.

Most of the obvious ones already there, but I do think about this one whenever I see a bee

Absolutely. Check out that Memorial Album---as late as '54, SC is outright playing Bud's arrangements, and many of his pianistic devices. By the late 50s, SC has left all that behind. Same for that WK record I mentioned. In WK's case, there's also George Shearing, another forgotten influence.

Links to two Paris Review pieces by author Sam Stephenson, who has books out on W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft. Also, a post about a SC bio I need to get. I'm listening now to the SC Memorial Album, bootleg recordings of Sonny at a gig---no guesswork necessary about the Bud Powell influence!

Guessing influences is always a fun game to play---it's hard to say definitively if SC was a Silver head unless he said so himself, and there's little to no record of his own words that I know of. Here's an intriguing post I just found: forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/sonn...

Minor Meeting YouTube video by Sonny Clark - Topic

You might hear it on this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrWm... Just last night I was inspired to make this record a transcription project. Horace brought blues, grease and funk to the forefront...even Wynton Kelly on his first outing as a leader sounded less funky before Horace hit the scene.

Stevie Wonder and James Brown Put This Prison Funk Band on the Map The Power of Attorney played shows with superstars, went to industry parties, and wore outside clothes — all under the watch of armed guards.

“When guys come out these days, they have nothing to feel good about,” says a member of Power of Attorney, a band that built a huge audience in the ’70s from prison. “There were opportunities to show people that even though we were in prison, we had some worth, and somebody believed in us.”

I think it's more likely they shared the same early influences, especially Horace Silver, who's influence was huge among pianists of their generation. Interesting to note that Clark followed Drew as the pianist in Buddy DeFranco's group around '53, so they were probably aware of each other.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

Kenny Wheeler (1/2) [BBC Omnibus 1977] YouTube video by senn414

cf this, which contains a lot of nice social history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBRu...

Springsteen: Well, this past winter federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. They picked the wrong city. Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America. And this reactionary nightmare and these invasions of American cities will not stand.

2 mos ago, I rescued a 10 year old laptop I had in the basement, loaded it up with memory, installed Ubuntu, and freeware versions of my most used programs. Has a CD drive and headphone jack. Runs like a champ, not sorry one bit.

This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power.

They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals.

Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.