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Playing Courtney Marie Andrews' Old Flowers, a breakup album reflecting on what once was, which was on constant play as we settled in for the pandemic, and Maple Glider's To Enjoy Is the Only Thing, heard pretty much non-stop over the last week (and mentioned here several times), a celebratory look towards connections and the future. Love songs can be goofy, but I wonder if these will end up being my COVID bookends (well, if we're approaching an end, probably too optimistic as rates are increasing nearly everywhere).

Timbuk2 sale ending today if anyone needs even more bags. https://www.timbuk2.com/collections/sale

The Olympic Mascots are forgotten https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world/asia/tokyo-olympics-mascots.html?referringSource=articleShare

^ I've requested that at several cover band shows and wedding receptions! _____ Someone in '76 thought the world needed a Happy Days-Welcome Back, Kotter cross over song (though they took place in different decades). The Fonzerelli Slide...

Leon Bridges – Gold-Diggers Sound

Also Lasso last night. Today, and I know this won't be everyone's cup of tea but keep in mind the main characters are designed to be split between loving and hating musicals, Schmigadoon!

Anyone have good links to the opening ceremonies this morning? Also at least 100 US athletes unvaccinated. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/23/number-of-vaccinated-us-athletes-tokyo-olympics-2020

Nils Frahm - All Melody

Moar Browne

^ This. Thanks Mikey. Christmas in July.

Yeah, White’s name is all that got me past the first episode, but I did think it laid the ground work in the second and I enjoyed its growing cringy-ness. It’s a limited series so we’ll see, but very hopeful. On the other end of hope, watched the pilot of Sexy Beasts, a dating show where the put sexy people with the worst personalities together to prove it’s “all about personalities”.

I think you have the Sieveking Omega stand. One of mine is also. The other is a newer, cheaper made, random brand X Omega stand (lots of options) that’s 1/7th the price and probably why no one stocks the Sieveking any longer (if they even make them). The amp stand, aka monitor/laptop stand, is made by Navaris, and dimensions work well with the GS-X Mini.

Still doesn’t suck.

Maple Glider - To Enjoy Is the Only Thing Example...

Following Mikey's lead... Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together

Anyone else watching Mike White’s The White Lotus [HBO]? Two episodes out so far and building its awkward fun.

If anyone is looking for a headphone stand. 40% off.

Continuing the all-day DakhaBrakha love fest with Alambari

In case you want to go another route - https://www.lifepixel.com/product-category/our-services/infrared-camera-conversions

After DakhaBrakha's rebroadcast SFJAZZ concert last night, hunting for more. Self-described ethnochaos. Before members getting married... After getting married...

Forget taste. 😉 All you need to know is Quaker Oats asked America’s children who was best and Quake got spanked and discontinued. Quake then dug a hole to “down under”, slimmed down, and got a kangaroo sidekick. This gave the new team the confidence to relaunch Quake as Quangaroos and take on Quisp again. Big mistake (Coca-Cola wouldn’t learn the lesson). Discontinued again. It was like a slo-mo game run by marketers.

Quisp was better!

Atlantic’s The Uyghur Chronicles: One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps https://www.theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chronicles/ “When our turn came, we entered the second office. Güljan, from our neighborhood committee, was waiting for us. She had us sign a registry. In addition to our fingerprints, she now said that they would also be taking blood samples, voice samples, and facial images. My wife looked at me anxiously. Nearly everyone I knew from the labor camp where I’d been imprisoned two decades earlier had already been rearrested. My turn would clearly come soon.”