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Diary of a Pandemic The first in a weekly series of curations of images made by Magnum photographers around the world, working and living under varying degrees of social restriction

Make Way For Jean Dushon

For whatever reason I’ve been moderately obsessed with the David Adjaye designed Master & Dynamic MA770 wireless concrete speaker for a few years. It just hit 50% off (code WFH50 = ~$600, 33% of orig price) if anyone else is interested. Course I don’t need another speaker. The timing is bad. I don’t need another speaker...

^ Is that handheld?

'Curly' Neal, Harlem Globetrotters ball-handling legend, dies at 77

Fables of the Reconstruction is the best!* *REM considers it their worst.

Terrence McNally, four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, dies of coronavirus complications https://www.thedailybeast.com/terrence-mcnally-tony-award-winning-playwright-dies-of-complications-due-to-coronavirus-at-81

Secret Sisters | Saturn Return

Ahhh, Rogers was a photographer too. https://petapixel.com/2020/03/23/the-late-kenny-rogers-was-a-fantastic-photographer/

The Great Empty: Photographs by The New York Times

One small upside of the coronavirus is it helped me catch up on Better Call Saul.

And exit Kenny Rogers. RIP.

gordon lightfoot | solo

Hope it’s a wonderful dry cough-free, fever-free, and booze-filled day.

People are still coding for IE? Can you use Opera to identify itself in the user-agent as IE? Not sure if that is still an option.

For those still buying audio gear, Ety ER4s over as Massdrop/Drop for $199. Along with the Senn HD580s, probably the most rewarding audio purchases of this long ride.

Do we care about new Apple products in days like these? If so, the new iPad Pro looks pretty nice. Merging continues.

Ya know...

Top Ten Most Beautiful Cameras of All Time

M. Ward - Unreal City

^ Another biggie. Max von Sydow, Star of ‘Seventh Seal’, ‘Exorcist’, and a Billion Other Films, Dies at 90 Great older piece and video over at Criterion - The Looming Gravitas of Max von Sydow. Embedded below. Well worth a watch. Vin Diesel this is how you act.

Kenny Barron and Dave Holland | Without Deception

RIP Joyce Gordon. I had no idea you were everywhere.

A few Blue Note 45 LPs and SACDs 50% off for a couple more hours over a Acoustic Sounds.