Today we said farewell to Kerry Greenwood author of the Phrynne Fisher books that became the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries on the ABC. She lived an amazing life working as a Legal Aid solicitor defending the poor & voiceless and as a very successful author. She was loved and will be missed.

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

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Tom Waits on Marianne Faithfull (RIP):

“She’s the aunt offering you a cigarette at a wedding when you’re 11. Her voice is spooky oil on a squeaky gate, baby powder meets gunpowder.”

Hair ice, spotted during a walk through Lyme Park today. Silky hair like ice that forms on dead wood, and catalysed by a fungi. A really beautiful detail of nature I’ve not seen before.

Here’s a short video that shows more of this youtu.be/N2ZSDGhEkrM?...

A tiny little 🧵on Jimmy Carter and music:

I reminded myself tonight that Carter invited James Talley to play at his inaugural. Do you know James Talley's music? He was basically a Left/populist country singer who made two masterpieces in the 1970s.

You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇

Some Thoughts on the Dylan Biopic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/some-...

elon musk said Bezos' ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott is destroying western civilization by donating billions to charities for women, minorities and marginalized groups, so in response she doubled her donations.

#FuckLeon

Book junkie. Serious cat dad. Polyamorous and (currently) polysaturated. #books #sotd
Worked on this for several months last year. Likely needs updating, but it's pretty complete: a Google map of all the independent brick-and-mortar bookstores in America and Canada. www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

eChristmas Medley...totally forgot about this recording (from the early aughts, Wild Hog in the Woods, Madison). Funny how if you write techie humor, your songs go out of date (except as curiosities) and require version upgrades! www.reverbnation.com/douglashamil...

If you use Wikipedia, and I use it a LOT, you should be throwing money into the pot regularly. Servers cannot run on thoughts and prayers. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
(Trivia: Wikipedia is one of the very few 90's dot-com ventures still in existence that didn't make its founders nasty rich.)

This weekend!
Fri Caffe Lena SOLD OUT (you can watch the live stream at caffelena.tv)
Sat Sugar Loaf, Chester NY
sugarloaftix.com/details.php?...

Let's get to work.