Iโm partly back โ with the help of the divine Ella Fitzgerald.ย
Stingโs song โAll This Timeโ plays a pretty significant role in my mental world. It came out a few months after my first trip to England, a trip centered on London and Oxford, and it alerted me to the wholly different texture of a Northern city, a Northern upbringing. And it made me imaginatively aware of what it might be like to grow up in a country with a Roman history โ for instance, in โan edge-of-the-Empire garrison town.โ It set me on a path of inquiry that made me highly receptive to what would become one of my favorite books, Susanna Clarkeโs Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Also, itโs one of Stingโs best songs. ๐ต
A record that has received a lot of love but never enough love is DโAngeloโs Black Messiah. Eleven years after its release it sounds as fresh as tomorrow. ๐ต
Interviewer: โYou look tanned and rested.โ Ange Postecoglu: โIf a manager looks tanned and rested, that means heโs out of a job, mate.โ Dudeโs kinda crazy but Iโm really glad heโs back in the PL. โฝ๏ธ
Leszek Koลakowski wrote about the
unpleasant and insoluble dilemmas that loom up every time we try to be perfectly consistent when we try to think about our culture, our politics, and our religious life. More often than not we want to have the best from incompatible worlds and, as a result, we get nothing; when we instead pawn our mental resources on one side, we cannot buy them out again and we are trapped in a kind of dogmatic immobility.
Thus Koลakowski appeals for what he winningly calls “moderation in consistency.”
A post I wrote a while back on diseases of the intellect seems relevant to this moment.
I successfully adjusted the truss rod in my guitar, ama