May be the best new song I’ve discovered the past few years: youtu.be/WgHqOHylTk0?...

Happening now

Friday night dance party with Los Dudes:
- Neil young, powder finger
- pavement, trigger cut
- Titus andronicus, theme from cheers
- John prime, fish and whistle
- John Cale, hello, there
- Joni Mitchell’s, coyote
- Beth Orton, shopping trolley
- Jim o’rourke, it’s all downhill

My 12 yo disagreed with me that “Summer Babe” would be a good walk up song for him in Little League this year

Make-A-Reasonable-Request Foundation Provides Sick Child With Decent Seats To Minnesota Timberwolves Game
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Saw this dude cross-country skiing down Stanford Avenue this evening.

Sauna, hygge, cont.

Friday night dance party with Los Dudes:
- thin Lizzy- cowboy song
- steely Dan- my old son
- Titus andronicus- theme from cheers
- john vanderslice- song for David bermam
- Bobby d- jokerman

“Hundreds of Beavers” is the most original and enjoyable film I have seen in a long time.

What I wrote about Jimmy Carter when he went into hospice two and a half years ago, in @theatlantic.com :

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What I wrote just now, after being in Panama, about Carter's management of the Canal treaties: fallows.substack.com/p/panama-is-...

Probably the best show seen this year. The Jayhawks are consistent great.

Not for the season

After serious consideration, the best sauna weather is below zero weather. Los Dudes were rolling in the snow.

Despite end of year work travel hassles, there is still the opportunity to appreciate beauty

I picked a good one / it looked like it could run