This is very nice Levi. I like the "special guest appearance" by the cat.

Thanks for recommending this! The entire album is superb

What an extraordinary picture, just beautiful. Everyone should be following Jocelyn @jocelynanderson.bsky.social Her photos never fail to brighten my day!

Marina Hyde at her best: "And yet Epstein had made no noise at all in the financial world. They could barely find one investor. Their general theory was that the “hedge fund” was simply a cover for a blackmail scheme."

Who was being blackmailed...

I remember our local "Top 40" radio station announcing the "world premiere" one morning of a new Beatles single (I think it was "Paperback Writer") and how excited I was. The fact that probably 200 other stations were also "premiering" it didn't occur to me. Simpler times, it was good to be young.

A Magnolia Warbler in a Winterberry bush. This migrating warbler wasn't interested in the berries, but the leaves caught this bird's attention. This warbler took a quick bath by getting his/her feathers wet from the wet leaves (too quick for me to get any photos but it was fun to watch.)

The financial / personal questions are intrusive. I did not finish the survey.

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📷: Northern Flicker

This is beautifully written. Thank you so much for sharing this blog post.

Why is the audiobook not available in the US ?

Yeah, this is the thing I can’t wrap my head around. The richest nation in the most comfortable era in human history and the richest people here are miserable and angry enough to blow the whole thing up instead of trying to fix the real problems we have

Jazz Off the Record In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve n...

1967-1972. Although there is a dearth of documentation, some say the music between the death of John Coltrane and the death of Lee Morgan was the greatest jazz of all time. In @thenation.com, my cover story on Slugs' and the archival release FORCES OF NATURE: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Later Sonny Rollins studio recordings don't get much critical love, but believe me folks: The 4 records from 1989-95--Falling in Love with Jazz/Here's to the People/Old Flames/Plus 3--are cohesive statements that include damn fine improvising from Sonny and good band playing. Don't sleep on them.

"Spirited Away"
one of my all-time favorite movies from any studio, animated or live action.

Sonny Rollins by Frank Stewart, 2017

A raccoon warily watching a turkey. Whenever this raccoon would move away from a tree, two Wild Turkeys would chase after him/her. The turkeys seemed none to pleased to have the raccoon around. Eventually the raccoon escaped deeper into the woods, and turkeys headed off on their own way.

A festive male Cardinal for this Christmas day. #ArtAdventCalendar #birds

My concern about the risks of AI is dwarfed by my concern about how much power in our world is wielded by humans with the emotional intelligence of twelve-year-olds.