Ben Folds: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
This is one of my favorite of many, many very good Tiny Desk concerts. And a good representation of what Folds seems to put into all of his live performances, regardless of the venue.
This is one of my favorite of many, many very good Tiny Desk concerts. And a good representation of what Folds seems to put into all of his live performances, regardless of the venue.
There was no one else like Dolores. Love this cover.
A World War II radar station disguised as a farm on the Klamath Beach drive, in Northern California.
Radio Paradise is my favorite web radio style service/community. The manually curated streams are top-notch and they offer many quality levels up to FLAC! I discovered today, based on my first comment there, that I started listening 19 years ago. *I'm* not as good as I used to be, but they are better. → https://radioparadise.com/
James Dickey: An Appreciation (1997) → https://fncll.org/james-dickey-an-appreciation/ #poetry
(1997)
A few early poems:
James Dickey (1923-1997) was, to my mind, simultaneously one of the most well known and one of the least appreciated authors in America. Most people are aware of Dickey’s work even if they themselves don’t know that they are: his novel Deliverance won the prestigious French Prix Medicis and was later made into an Academy award-winning film in the early seventies that almost everyone has seen (or heard thanks to its famous “Dueling Banjo” soundtrack).
But Dickey’s first love—and he explicitly made this point many times—was poetry. And strangely, despite being more popularly known for his fiction, it was in his poetry that Dickey was truly something of a revolutionary. Sometimes it is the case that a pervasive influence on poetry is known most fully only to other poets, particularly if the poet is one who, like Dickey, is primarily known for a single piece of fiction. I heartily recommend his fiction to anyone, but I strongly suggest that anyone who hopes to write poetry today be familiar with Dickey’s work.
…US Politics
This indictment of #Trump is weak and seems unlikely to go to trial at all, much less see Trump lose. I predict this indictment, unless a more significant legal challenge is raised, will ultimately do more harm than good, boosting the peevish pumpkin's chances in the primary *and* general #elections. I've rarely hoped more fervently to be surprised. #politics
I can’t be the first person in the history of this coffee shop to pull a rotary #pencil sharpener
Is there really no way on #Mastodon to see whose boosts I have muted so I can unmute them? (Short of checking every profile manually)