George Wallace
@wallacegeo.bsky.social
An old lawyer in love with new music, among other things. Snappy patter & wordplay a subspecialty. Not one of those George Wallaces you may have heard of. Occasional longer outbursts via georgewallace.substack.com. Mostly harmless. Neither mod nor rocker.
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George Wallace
@wallacegeo.bsky.social
· Nov 18
[Epigraph to John Gardner's "The Sunlight Dialogues" (1972)] [Pinned tweet @ Twitter since 2016; imported to the butterfly pavilion 2024]
Such a surfeit of self-regard
Such a void of self-knowledge
Such a void of self-knowledge
January 29, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Such a surfeit of self-regard
Such a void of self-knowledge
Such a void of self-knowledge
It would be jolly fun if, instead of premiering "Melania" Thursday night, the projectionist at the Kennedy Center shows Philip Glass's "Satyagraha." Trump likes musical theater, right?
January 27, 2026 at 11:53 PM
It would be jolly fun if, instead of premiering "Melania" Thursday night, the projectionist at the Kennedy Center shows Philip Glass's "Satyagraha." Trump likes musical theater, right?
Learned just this morning that Bill Laswell shares the writing credit with Lydon on this indispensable evergreen banger.
January 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Learned just this morning that Bill Laswell shares the writing credit with Lydon on this indispensable evergreen banger.
Feels like Minneapolis.
"Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman)/"Saints" (Albert Ayler)
gimenezlopezbassuarezscampino.bandcamp.com/track/lonely...
from 'Reunión en la granja' by Giménez López / Bass / Suarez / Scampino (2021)
"Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman)/"Saints" (Albert Ayler)
gimenezlopezbassuarezscampino.bandcamp.com/track/lonely...
from 'Reunión en la granja' by Giménez López / Bass / Suarez / Scampino (2021)
Lonely woman/Saints, by Giménez López / Bass / Suarez / Scampino
from the album Reunión en la granja
gimenezlopezbassuarezscampino.bandcamp.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Feels like Minneapolis.
"Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman)/"Saints" (Albert Ayler)
gimenezlopezbassuarezscampino.bandcamp.com/track/lonely...
from 'Reunión en la granja' by Giménez López / Bass / Suarez / Scampino (2021)
"Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman)/"Saints" (Albert Ayler)
gimenezlopezbassuarezscampino.bandcamp.com/track/lonely...
from 'Reunión en la granja' by Giménez López / Bass / Suarez / Scampino (2021)
And you may ask yourself, "Who is paying for this?"
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
And you may ask yourself, "Who is paying for this?"
I had a week-long civil trial in El Centro that trailed on the calendar and required multiple trips over nearly 3 weeks to get done. Thus I learned that if there is a place whose name you know, El Centro is never fewer than 3½ hours from there. It is an ever-receding mirage until you reach it.
So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1
January 27, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I had a week-long civil trial in El Centro that trailed on the calendar and required multiple trips over nearly 3 weeks to get done. Thus I learned that if there is a place whose name you know, El Centro is never fewer than 3½ hours from there. It is an ever-receding mirage until you reach it.
Skulky.
206. "Administrative Warrants" and the Percival Op-Ed
ICE is claiming the authority to search private homes without a judicial warrant if it's looking for non-citizens under a "final order of removal." DHS's public defense rests on two incorrect claims.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Skulky.
ICE has given the nation its Kent State; can My Lai be far behind?
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
ICE has given the nation its Kent State; can My Lai be far behind?
My own old office [1999-2002] in the Gas Company Tower is in this shot.
While Al Gore was being nominated for President in 2000, two miles away at the Convention Center, I was able to look down on the marchers in the Pershing Square 'free speech zone.'
A bit of an inflection point, in retrospect.
While Al Gore was being nominated for President in 2000, two miles away at the Convention Center, I was able to look down on the marchers in the Pershing Square 'free speech zone.'
A bit of an inflection point, in retrospect.
The firm’s moving to another building after 20 years. Went today to make some plans in the new space for when we move in June. Happy with the view from my office.
January 24, 2026 at 12:11 AM
My own old office [1999-2002] in the Gas Company Tower is in this shot.
While Al Gore was being nominated for President in 2000, two miles away at the Convention Center, I was able to look down on the marchers in the Pershing Square 'free speech zone.'
A bit of an inflection point, in retrospect.
While Al Gore was being nominated for President in 2000, two miles away at the Convention Center, I was able to look down on the marchers in the Pershing Square 'free speech zone.'
A bit of an inflection point, in retrospect.
Bowie Takes Manhattan 1979
I will always stop to gaze a gazely stare at this set.
I will always stop to gaze a gazely stare at this set.
"TVC 15" on SNL, with Klaus Nomi & Joey Arias, Dec 1979: vimeo.com/348064534?sh...
Bowie – TMWSTW, TVC15 & Boys Keep Swinging SNL 79
David Bowie with Klaus Nomi & Joey Arias – The Man Who Sold The World, TVC 15 & Boys Keep Swinging (Saturday Night Live, 1979)
vimeo.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Bowie Takes Manhattan 1979
I will always stop to gaze a gazely stare at this set.
I will always stop to gaze a gazely stare at this set.
Reposted by George Wallace
i wish we treated this tier of arts administrators more like sports coaches and fired them much more easily for anything less than a perfect season
January 22, 2026 at 4:33 AM
i wish we treated this tier of arts administrators more like sports coaches and fired them much more easily for anything less than a perfect season
Tonight, tonight, let it be Slowdive.
slowdive.bandcamp.com/album/slowdive
slowdive.bandcamp.com/album/slowdive
Slowdive, by Slowdive
8 track album
slowdive.bandcamp.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Tonight, tonight, let it be Slowdive.
slowdive.bandcamp.com/album/slowdive
slowdive.bandcamp.com/album/slowdive
Another Green Land
January 21, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Another Green Land
Is there anyone in the Trump inner circle who has the wherewithal to continue the Regime without Trump's amazing, and purely personal, Reality Distortion Field? Without the reflected 'glory' of Trump himself, they all seem so obviously small and loathsome, even to the believers, no?
January 21, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Is there anyone in the Trump inner circle who has the wherewithal to continue the Regime without Trump's amazing, and purely personal, Reality Distortion Field? Without the reflected 'glory' of Trump himself, they all seem so obviously small and loathsome, even to the believers, no?
A smart and wonderful piano trio record, and I have been remiss in not buying it these past 2-3 years. Will fix that, come #BandcampFriday [Feb 6 26]. Damned fine, this.
wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...
wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...
The Betrayal, by ENEMY
12 track album
wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:20 AM
A smart and wonderful piano trio record, and I have been remiss in not buying it these past 2-3 years. Will fix that, come #BandcampFriday [Feb 6 26]. Damned fine, this.
wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...
wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...
When Stephen Miller, eyes aflame and lips aflecked, refuses to go to Airplane Mode.
Trump rapid response: "After takeoff, the AF1 crew identified a minor electrical issue. Out of an abundance of caution, AF1 is returning to Joint Base Andrews. The President and team will board a different aircraft and continue on to Switzerland."
January 21, 2026 at 3:52 AM
When Stephen Miller, eyes aflame and lips aflecked, refuses to go to Airplane Mode.
If "more training" was an effective strategy, every workplace of substantial size would be a Paradise of courtesy, decency and kindness by every measure by now.
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
If "more training" was an effective strategy, every workplace of substantial size would be a Paradise of courtesy, decency and kindness by every measure by now.
Not to minimize the Red Menace, but all of the most immediately threatening perils to life, liberty, and the purfuit of American happineff are coming from inside the acquisitive capitalist house.
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Not to minimize the Red Menace, but all of the most immediately threatening perils to life, liberty, and the purfuit of American happineff are coming from inside the acquisitive capitalist house.
That ICE agents judge others by the color of their skin says a great deal about the content of ICE agents' character.
January 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM
That ICE agents judge others by the color of their skin says a great deal about the content of ICE agents' character.
Reposted by George Wallace
Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...
'Dream awhile'
In which the project is introduced, and we consider our resources
substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...
Speaking as un homme américain d'un certain âge who cares little for sport in the day to day, but who has an ongoing multidecade sense of what the major recurring events in sport *are*, Army-Navy has not been a big deal in my adult lifetime. Always more relevant than Harvard-Yale, but not by much.
Marx remarks somewhere that historical events appear, as it were, twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.
He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.
January 18, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Speaking as un homme américain d'un certain âge who cares little for sport in the day to day, but who has an ongoing multidecade sense of what the major recurring events in sport *are*, Army-Navy has not been a big deal in my adult lifetime. Always more relevant than Harvard-Yale, but not by much.
What is with the upward serifs, on the letters T and A (and maybe U[?]), in the name of the Department?
Are they worried that birds -- doves perhaps -- might otherwise land or roost there?
Are they worried that birds -- doves perhaps -- might otherwise land or roost there?
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
What is with the upward serifs, on the letters T and A (and maybe U[?]), in the name of the Department?
Are they worried that birds -- doves perhaps -- might otherwise land or roost there?
Are they worried that birds -- doves perhaps -- might otherwise land or roost there?
A proper appreciation. I for one will never tire of Be-Bop Deluxe.
I scoured the San Fernando Valley in the summer of '75 to find a record shop that even knew they existed, let alone had a copy of "Futurama" on offer.
I scoured the San Fernando Valley in the summer of '75 to find a record shop that even knew they existed, let alone had a copy of "Futurama" on offer.
Toby Manning looks beyond woeful sleeve art to find the UK's underrated Be-Bop Deluxe, serving up a unique blend of art rock, pop prog and late period glam in 1976
Sunburst Finish by Be-Bop Deluxe, 50 years on
buff.ly/tabDgq3
Sunburst Finish by Be-Bop Deluxe, 50 years on
buff.ly/tabDgq3
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
A proper appreciation. I for one will never tire of Be-Bop Deluxe.
I scoured the San Fernando Valley in the summer of '75 to find a record shop that even knew they existed, let alone had a copy of "Futurama" on offer.
I scoured the San Fernando Valley in the summer of '75 to find a record shop that even knew they existed, let alone had a copy of "Futurama" on offer.
It's Alright, Ma (He's Only Blinking)
January 15, 2026 at 5:13 AM
It's Alright, Ma (He's Only Blinking)