Ford Madox Ford wrote: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you."

I was asked to apply the Page 99 Test to my book: page99test.blogspot.com/2024/01/luke...

This book dropped today. I’ve read it and can’t recommend it enough. Brilliant. Illuminating. Intoxicating. 4.95/5.0 stars. Basically reads like a John Grisham novel but more fast-paced. Sharing and reposting could change lives.

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Difficult on a number of levels but ultimately very rewarding. One of the best novels about life on the fringes.

Cool piece on Johnny Cash's roots in my home state, Arkansas. The below picture of Cash was taken at the Cotton Belt Festival parade in Fordyce, Arkansas, in April 1982 (I was 3), where I lived most of my childhood. The guy driving the horse is my high school French teacher's husband.

Pro tip: occupy your puppy for hours with an empty jar of peanut butter.

Yard work / Strava abstract art:

"Orange on Grey #273 - Jazz and the Eschatological"