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Coltrane & Eric Dolphy

A kind of dream band playing in a kind of dream:

  • TRANE;
  • Ginger Baker’s idol, the polyphonic, Elvin Jones;
  • a young McCoy Tyner;
  • Reggie Workman, later of Blakey and the Messengers;
  • and the era’s most talented and sought after sideman, ERIC DOLPHY.

And check out the look of that AMSTERDAM VENUE.

Twitter: The Coming War Zone

Grab your popcorn, folks.  This will get ugly. 

And now with the impending SCOTUS reversal of Roe v. Wade — which stats show MOST of the country doesn’t want — the political environment will get only MORE TOXIC; and Twitter, PRACTICALLY LETHAL, words not breaking bones notwithstanding.

But let’s do Orwell v. All Is Well first.

And from the ever armed Glenn Greenwald:

Greenwald doubling down:

So, while you’re filling that popcorn bowl, fish out your KEVLAR VEST.

Loose Russian Talk on the Rise

But is it coming from a position of STRENGTH or of WEAKNESS?

And if it’s WEAKNESS, the thinking behind threats can be PANICKED and the THREATS therefore more CREDIBLE.

Any Kremlinologists left?  If so, would you kindly DECONSTRUCT this TWEET?

I don’t mind saying I’M CONCERNED.

Good, we’ve a DECONSTURCTOR.  It’s been 60 years since 62.  The dude says we’re BACK there. 

I GET IT — I AGREE.