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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - La Panthère des Neiges

RIP architect Richard Rogers. If there's anyone currently in Paris, maybe a tip of the hat towards the Pompidou Centre. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/19/richard-rogers-pompidou-and-millennium-dome-architect-dies-aged-88

Kinda interesting - How Kodak Exposed the Atomic Bomb

RIP Renay Mandel Corren El Paso, TX—A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday. Of itself hardly news, or good news if you're the type that subscribes to the notion that anybody not named you dying in El Paso, Texas is good news. In which case have I got news for you: the bawdy, fertile, redheaded matriarch of a sprawling Jewish-Mexican-Redneck American family has kicked it. This was not good news to Renay Mandel Corren's many surviving children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many of whom she even knew and, in her own way, loved. There will be much mourning in the many glamorous locales she went bankrupt in: McKeesport, PA, Renay's birthplace and where she first fell in love with ham, and atheism; Fayetteville and Kill Devil Hills, NC, where Renay's dreams, credit rating and marriage are all buried; and of course Miami, FL, where Renay's parents, uncles, aunts, and eternal hopes of all Miami Dolphins fans everywhere, are all buried pretty deep. Renay was preceded in death by Don Shula. Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren at the impossible old age of 84 is newsworthy to me, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she had for, well, nothing. A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX was not to be found. Hers was an itinerant, much-lived life, a Yankee Florida liberal Jewish Tough Gal who bowled 'em in Japan, rolled 'em in North Carolina and was a singularly unique parent. Often frustrated by the stifling, conservative culture of the South, Renay turned her voracious mind to the home front, becoming a model stay at home parent, a supermom, really, just the perfect PTA lady, volunteer, amateur baker and-AHHAHAA HA! HA! HA! Just kidding, y'all! Renay - Rosie to her friends, and this was a broad who never met a stranger - worked double shifts with Doreen, ate a ton of carbs with Bernie, and could occasionally be stirred to stew some stuffed cabbage for the kids. She played cards like a shark, bowled and played cribbage like a pro, and laughed with the boys until the wee hours, long after the last pin dropped. At one point in the 1980's, Renay was the 11th or 12th-ranked woman in cribbage in America, and while that could be a lie, it sounds great in print... https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451

Watching old episodes I previously missed of Nathan for You (HBO). I forgot how good this is.

How about that season finale? Just watched a second time in 24 hours.

Might as well pile on. Watched this doc today (Netflix).

Feared this news, but still a bit of a shock. Thanks for conversations in the shared car rides Steve. Thanks for letting us know Al.

Don't forget BOX from Logan's Run

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.

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