I was at this gig and didn’t see anyone obviously taping. Rich Mix, the venue, might tape off sbd tho. They’re nice people so would probably respond to a query or two

What an impressively ignorant comment.

A lot of the literature on migration and displacement is really good on nostalgia. Salman Akhtar’s “the immigrant, the exile, and nostalgia” is the classic

One of my favorite things that happened in my tenure in community radio was discovering that the station manager was Teitelbaum’s nephew after melting the airwaves with MEV. “Thanks for playing Uncle Richard.”

In 1958, John Lilly and a few other neurologists stumped for putting a dolphin in space as a neurophysiological analogue for humans

The first time I felt at home in London was seeing a baldponytail jazz dad type guy wearing a rush shirt and blazer.

My phd supervisor tried to get me to write a dissertation on general semantics

What a cool project!

Not literature but an example: mustard oil, pretty much the biggest staple of Bengali cooking, is always marketed in the US and UK as for “external use only,” which everyone knows to ignore. I think it skirts import restrictions this way or something.

Keep me posted! We should get a beer

You coming to London, bruv?

IIRC there’s some bits in Matt Ingram’s ‘retreat.’ Also in some of the scholarship on Osho cf Hugh urban.

The only Gurdjieff you really need is Keith Jarrett’s recording of his compositions. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I can think of a few reasons why not.

I think Bruno Clarke is writing something on him now that should at the very least be appropriately bonkers.