Roy Face led MLB in winning percentage 18-1 as a Pirates reliever in 1959

Flowers to Sirius Beatles Channel for playing Yer Blues this morning.

3 years ago today, we lost alt.rock musician and singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan at the age of 57. He was a co-founder of Screaming Trees and was also a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins.

A UW-Madison historian's work became a key feature of Bad Bunny's new album. Here's how Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, an assistant history professor at UW-Madison, is the brains behind the visualizers for Bad Bunny's hit new album.

Check out this article from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A UW-Madison historian's work became a key feature of Bad Bunny's new album. Here's how

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Unexpectedly I’ve written two articles over the past month that mention Will Durant

Is your syllabus or reading list for that course posted anywhere? Would love to see what books/stories you’re using.

This title of an Edna O’Brien story sounds like it could be either a Belle and Sebastian or Morrissey song: Come Into the Drawing Room, Doris

Can’t speak for Jim O, but I’m happy with Qobuz.

Preach!

In a possible, and mildly unnerving, foreshadowing of my imminent future golden years, for complicated family reasons we ate dinner at 4 pm today

Is there a filter for TV that blocks all Manning commercials?

*complimentary, I meant to write there

Even at my age there are firsts. A colleague compared me today, in a friendly and complementary way, to a sturgeon.

Soundtrack for grilling: a new Neil Young tribute album, a Stephen Marley playlist

Moms at the playground at 7 a.m.: May you have strength for the day ahead

Drinking microwaved leftover day old coffee this morning. Like a good frugal elder Milwaukeean.

Alphabetically adjacent tracks on my favorites playlist: Friendly Advice (Luna) and From a Motel 6 (Yo La Tengo). Simpatico

16 guitarists, an annotated playlist I decided to make a simple, reliable playlist of jazz (and adjacent) guitar music I liked for occasions when I was having trouble deciding…

Friends and fellow music nerds, I've posted a new article on Medium about 16 guitarists I enjoy medium.com/@jimhiggins_...

Pet drama: Two family members are obsessed with a new puppy in the neighborhood, who looks like the mini version of our current beloved dog.

One (among many) reasons I liked a college senior I interviewed recently was that she unselfconsciously used the phrase "kitty corner," which we used all the time back in the Paleolithic, but which I rarely hear these days.

Yes, my favorites playlist has 2 different versions of “Lithium” on it. Why do you ask?

Reclusive Thomas Pynchon's new novel has a Milwaukee setting Reclusive literary giant Thomas Pynchon, 87, is publishing a new novel in October — and it has a Milwaukee setting.

Thank you, Thomas Pynchon, for a Milwaukee angle www.jsonline.com/story/life/2...

Wisconsin Literary Luminaries From the humble Ingalls family cabin in the woods to Ayad Akhtar's multicultural conflicts, the Badger State's stories and imagery have long inspired. Explore how Aldo Leopold and Lorine Niedecker dre...

On this day 8 years ago my first book was published. Didn't become rich or famous, but I enjoyed nearly everything about the process. Publisher treated me well. Made a little money, did a few events, gave a few talks, had conversations. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...

Interesting typo I just made: SteppenwoRf

My Pittsburgh sisters are united in opposition to A-Rod as a Steeler!

Made a John Peter Zenger joke this week. Marquette education is paying dividends!

The startling history of ‘London Calling’ vs. ‘New York, New York’ In London Calling New York New York (Trouser Press Books), the late Peter Silverton begins with a single, startling fact: The Clash’s…

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Is it just me, or is the NYT now beating a drum for medically-assisted suicide, with two huge recent stories?

And a short drive from Moon Township is Mars, Pa. (where I went to summer camp as a youth)

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