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I’m a believer. Thanks. All your holiday music playlists are belong to us.

I know we have Shave-Case, but for those periods of wanting to keep hair have any suggestions for beard treatments to keep things manly soft and not bone dry? Currently using Viking Revolution Beard Conditioner and then alternating between Honest Amish Balm and Mountaineer Brand Beard Oil, but it's time to reevaluate the options. All ears.

BTW, the doc Six by Sondheim is on HBO. Looks like someone uploaded to YT also. Showed on on this list - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/nov/29/where-to-start-with-stephen-sondheim-10-of-the-best-from-the-maestro

Lapham’s Quarterly Collections sale. Jump back through the ages on minor subjects like war, time, death, happiness, eros, epidemics, etc. I have the Essentials Collection and it's great. I should read them some time. Use code LIBRARY at checkout https://store.laphamsquarterly.us/collections/?campaign=JBALQB6 Also while you're there, good posters...

After watching all six thousand Vikings episodes and starting The Last Kingdom (very likely the better series and it even has Tom!), shifted over to Norsemen (Netflix). Not sure I can recommend it, but it's the only one of the bunch from the area and therefore it's of course a comedy.

‘There was a prophecy I would come’: the western men who think they are South Pacific kings https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/27/western-men-who-dream-of-being-south-pacific-kings-vanuatu-prophesy

^ Same here. Also because I like to balance the portions, same for turkey, potatoes, and naps.

Sennheiser HD8XX are down to $949 https://drop.com/buy/drop-sennheiser-hd-8xx-headphones

Sylvère Lotringer, who popularized French critical theory in the United States, helped inspire the Matrix movie series, hosted conferences for counterculture celebrities, lent his name to a character in an acclaimed novel and a television series based on it [I Love Dick], provoked rants on Fox News and founded an influential publishing house — all while trying to outrun memories of a childhood spent on the precipice of disaster [damn Nazis] — died on Nov. 8 at his home outside Ensenada, Mexico, in Baja California. He was 83. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/sylvere-lotringer-dead.html https://www.artforum.com/news/sylvere-lotringer-1938-2021-87164

The annual list is out. NYTimes 100 Notable Books of 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/22/books/notable-books.html?referringSource=articleShare Just picked up Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. Need to get more.

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Happy probably belated. Glad it went well.

For later...

Who else is up for the eclipse? It's truly an almost perfect night for watching endless clouds, but I kinda wanted to see the moon.

If anyone wants to feel better about their childhood and/or parenting skills and have 30 minutes to kill, check out Snap Judgement's Con Man Daddy episode. https://snapjudgment.org/episode/con-man-daddy/

^ Looks great. Thanks.

As the interwebs tend to do, this lead to many other recommended airflight discussions, landing on Aeroflot Flight 593. Is that one common knowledge? The one where the relief pilot let his kids take over the controls? Not to get all morbid, but...

CNN produced six-part The Story of Late Night (HBO). Informative, really entertaining, and a healthy dose of nostalgia. From 1954 forward. #fuckjayleno

Plus the Kobo has Updike.

Loong career. Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra in ANCHORS AWEIGH. With Myrna Loy and William Powell in SONG OF THE THIN MAN. Also with Gregory Peck in GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT.

RIP Dean Stockwell of Quantum Leap, Paris Texas, To Live and Die in L.A, Dune, and Blue Velvet https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/09/dean-stockwell-quantum-leap-blue-velvet-married-to-mob-dies-aged-85

One year ago today...