My guitar hero, Martin Simpson, playing “The Cherry Tree Carol.”
As a conniseur of these matters, I’m here to tell you that the best Darlene Love Letterman Christmas performance was this one. 2010.
I hate Twitter with the white-hot intensity of ten thousand suns. Bluesky is very different: I only hate it with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
Century-Scale Storage: “If you had to store something [digital] for 100 years, how would you do it?”
One year I will do an Advent series on the O Antiphons, but in the meantime: O Oriens, O Earendel.
Continuing my series on family, I reflect on Anita Desai’s novel Clear Light of Day. I’m posting one such meditation per week, to give myself (and my readers) time to think things over.
where does Dasein go when he’s feeling down
I wrote about the difference between being an influencer and doing a job of work.
Robin Sloan: “Cults: yes. They have been necessary, at all times in all places, for the long-term transmission of art of any/every kind. Maybe the difference, here and now in the short 2020s, is that you need one right from the start.”