Post-dinner tunes: Cate Le Bon’s REWARD.

11-year-old: “This album has some good melodies.”

RIP Faith Ringgold, a dauntless and astonishingly inventive artist, activist, author, illustrator, sculptor, and children’s-book legend. The great ideas just kept coming. She was one of the signal cultural figures of our times.

Re: the moral panic about kids not playing outside: I grew up “rural” in the middle of a cornfield and I HATED being outside when I was a kid. Spent every second I could inside, playing computer games or watching movies or practicing guitar.

“I hardly knew what time of the day it was or what was happening around me.”
—R.K. Narayan, THE GUIDE

All five episodes of “OJ: Made in America” are, as of today, now streaming on Netflix.

(Netflix is not usually in the habit of adding content in response to a celebrity’s death, so this is interesting.)

THE BEACH BUM soundtrack is kind of perfect for getting blasted by the pool open.spotify.com/playlist/3J3TX…

Honestly, both Gallagher Brothers are gifts to humanity and they need to combine forces once again to heal the planet.

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April 13, 2017 diary

In my April 13th, 2017 diary I found this Bashō poem that an older lady recited to me in Half Price Books:

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From ANNE LAMOTT: “…us Charles Portis lifelong cult members can nearly choke to death laughing when we quote each other lines from The Dog of the South.”

Oh man this is sad. I highly recommend her memoir NOTES ON A LIFE

“I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium. The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees.”
—Uncle Monty, WITHNAIL AND I