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]
Awful man, beautiful poem
The apparition of these faces in the
crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
The apparition of these faces in the
crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Awful man, beautiful poem
The apparition of these faces in the
crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
The apparition of these faces in the
crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Seven decades of painstaking work pay off today, as I achieve the achievement of becoming, officially, "terribly strange."
youtu.be/WJg6E9rd3MM?...
youtu.be/WJg6E9rd3MM?...
Old Friends / Bookends (Single Mix)
YouTube video by Simon & Garfunkel - Topic
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Seven decades of painstaking work pay off today, as I achieve the achievement of becoming, officially, "terribly strange."
youtu.be/WJg6E9rd3MM?...
youtu.be/WJg6E9rd3MM?...
Vinyl, by Kokayi
from the album KOKAYI - Live at Big Ears
kokayi.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I have opinions, but,
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I have opinions, but,
Oh how I hate a computer failure in the morning.
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Oh how I hate a computer failure in the morning.
Looking forward to the Melania Trump Institute of Cleanliness and the JD Vance Institute of Godliness.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Looking forward to the Melania Trump Institute of Cleanliness and the JD Vance Institute of Godliness.
More secret knowledge that, it's no secret, I did not know until tonight.
RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
More secret knowledge that, it's no secret, I did not know until tonight.
Heads up:
Tom Stoppard, director of the film "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead," is as well.
Ave Atque Vale.
youtu.be/C_TfdNAXOwE?...
Tom Stoppard, director of the film "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead," is as well.
Ave Atque Vale.
youtu.be/C_TfdNAXOwE?...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Heads Scene (1/11) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Heads up:
Tom Stoppard, director of the film "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead," is as well.
Ave Atque Vale.
youtu.be/C_TfdNAXOwE?...
Tom Stoppard, director of the film "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead," is as well.
Ave Atque Vale.
youtu.be/C_TfdNAXOwE?...
Reposted by George Wallace
Patti Smith is definitely one of the rockers who incorporates religious ecstasy into her performances, only instead of channeling American gospel like the rest of her generation it feels more like she went with Hildegard of Bingen
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Patti Smith is definitely one of the rockers who incorporates religious ecstasy into her performances, only instead of channeling American gospel like the rest of her generation it feels more like she went with Hildegard of Bingen
Coyotes hootenannyin'
in the cannyin'
But there's an extraordinary
writ petition
I must be wranglin'
for, and into,
submission.
in the cannyin'
But there's an extraordinary
writ petition
I must be wranglin'
for, and into,
submission.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Coyotes hootenannyin'
in the cannyin'
But there's an extraordinary
writ petition
I must be wranglin'
for, and into,
submission.
in the cannyin'
But there's an extraordinary
writ petition
I must be wranglin'
for, and into,
submission.
The bigots and 'Christian' Nationalists seem intent on undoing Reconstruction, but the 'Christian' Nationalists, anti-vaxers, and loudmouthed public AI tech bros seem intent on pushing history back even farther and undoing the Enlightenment.
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The bigots and 'Christian' Nationalists seem intent on undoing Reconstruction, but the 'Christian' Nationalists, anti-vaxers, and loudmouthed public AI tech bros seem intent on pushing history back even farther and undoing the Enlightenment.
Beyond contra-MAGAites on Bluesky, reposting in horror, what is the practical reach of Trump's arful Truth Social posts?
Fox hardly seems to mention them, making it easy for Mike Johnson to 'not have seen' them. Unsure about the more deplorable Right.
Do they connect with real people in a real way?
Fox hardly seems to mention them, making it easy for Mike Johnson to 'not have seen' them. Unsure about the more deplorable Right.
Do they connect with real people in a real way?
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Beyond contra-MAGAites on Bluesky, reposting in horror, what is the practical reach of Trump's arful Truth Social posts?
Fox hardly seems to mention them, making it easy for Mike Johnson to 'not have seen' them. Unsure about the more deplorable Right.
Do they connect with real people in a real way?
Fox hardly seems to mention them, making it easy for Mike Johnson to 'not have seen' them. Unsure about the more deplorable Right.
Do they connect with real people in a real way?
Fairport Convention "Now Be Thankful"
YouTube video by smile67
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
'Northern Sky' was my Nick Drake entry point, half a century ago. Dinna know until tonight that the piano (and organ and ... maybe celesta?) is Cale.
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 AM
'Northern Sky' was my Nick Drake entry point, half a century ago. Dinna know until tonight that the piano (and organ and ... maybe celesta?) is Cale.
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
"Why, this is hell," he simpered, sniffling at his sulfurous pomander, "nor am I out of it, Mister ... Marlowe, was it?"
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"Why, this is hell," he simpered, sniffling at his sulfurous pomander, "nor am I out of it, Mister ... Marlowe, was it?"
Trump's face on new national park passes outrages conservationists www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Trump's face on new national park passes outrages conservationists
Changes to the America the Beautiful passes prioritize U.S. citizens.
www.sfgate.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trump's face on new national park passes outrages conservationists www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Relevant beauty, of an evening.
sophiavastek.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-f...
sophiavastek.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-f...
Hymn for Slowing ft. Sam Torres (live), by Sova
track by Sova
sophiavastek.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Relevant beauty, of an evening.
sophiavastek.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-f...
sophiavastek.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-f...
They're good pies, Brent.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
They're good pies, Brent.
Share a '90s movie that you think deserves more love.
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Share a '90s movie that you think deserves more love.
No system is worth your time if it is not deserving of your trust.
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
No system is worth your time if it is not deserving of your trust.
Two weeks until it will be terribly strange.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Two weeks until it will be terribly strange.
It was a long, stretched, and stressful week for me -- perhaps for you and yours as well? -- but I took comfort more than once with Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: "From Your Heart."
A straight-up down-deeply beautiful thing, this is.
ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/track/from-y...
A straight-up down-deeply beautiful thing, this is.
ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/track/from-y...
From Your Heart, by Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
from the album Let The Spirit Out, Live At "mu" London
ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It was a long, stretched, and stressful week for me -- perhaps for you and yours as well? -- but I took comfort more than once with Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: "From Your Heart."
A straight-up down-deeply beautiful thing, this is.
ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/track/from-y...
A straight-up down-deeply beautiful thing, this is.
ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/track/from-y...
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
Love how Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon revisit The Only Tune every couple of years. This one at Sadler's Wells may be my favourite yet. The dancing skeletons and musicians also in skeleton outfits made the dark melody even more sinister and surreal.
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
@samamidon.bsky.social @nicomuhly.bsky.social
[Endorsement intended] 👇
The DOJ has a special closet full of these guys, know-nothings for every occasion.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The DOJ has a special closet full of these guys, know-nothings for every occasion.