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Double String Trios by John McGuire

\"Double

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Sounds Which Grow Richer as They Decay by Sylvia Lim

\"Sounds

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I’ve commenced my roughly quintennial reacquaintance with “Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” a song I believe to be irrefutably and uniquely powerful, but I can never get my head around the mix in the last section. I’m not sure where such a song is supposed to “go” but near-incoherence...

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I can’t remember how I found “American Diner Gothic” but anything with a tagline like “In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers” will at least tickle my attention, and this piece, which folds alternately into anxious sociology...

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MotherLoad by Tasha Warren, Dave Eggar

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I didn’t know there were active offshoots or versions of the Guerrilla Girls but the original efforts remain inspiring. This kind of protest seems mostly impossible to me in our current moment. Too much info flows through specialized scrolling for their type of...

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Partita for Oboe Solo by Shoko Ikeda

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The photo site continues to be a work-in-progress. Which is to say, I continue to work on it and am making progress.

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I made a memorial page for our cat, Lieu, to whom we said goodbye yesterday. Dearly missed.

\n

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New Pleasures by Arp

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Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts by Charles Joseph Smith

\"Collected

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I’ve added a new photos section to the site. it functions independently from the main site in some ways, e.g. the site’s search function does not extend to the photos subsite. Neither does the “photography” tag search the subsite. The photos site also has its own RSS feed. I might learn...

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\"Brooklyn,Brooklyn, NY

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Impressions by Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

\"Impressions

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Art Form 2 by Various Artists (FORM@ RECORDS)

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Art Form I by Various Artists (FORM@ RECORDS)

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\"Brooklyn,Brooklyn, NY

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\"FugitiveFugitive Recording, Brooklyn, NY

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Descension by Patrick Shiroishi

\"Descension

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Does Spring Hide Its Joy by Kali Malone

\"Does

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Bengt \"Frippe\" Nordström Vinyl Box by Bengt Nordström

Bengt \"Frippe\" Nordström Vinyl Box by Bengt Nordström

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Entrance by ACTION NOW!, Nicolas Leirtrø

\"Entrance

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@patrickrhone Nice one!

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@manton @help Is there a way to remove Amazon from the bookshelves links?

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@chrisd That’s a steady diet of something!

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Not yet sure why I’m enjoying Inkwell so much so I’ll just roll with it. Nice work, @manton! Looking forward to its further development.

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Every year.

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@patrickrhone This is terrific with or without context.

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@patrickrhone Yes! Should be a shirt.

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@patrickrhone I think about this frequently. Jews have somethjng called kiddush hashem, which has to do with how we behave in the world as Jews. So the practice comes first but we identify as Jews in the course of it.

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@patrickrhone Though if one’s religion inspires such a practice, why not say so?

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@patrickrhone I think such a practice sets aside the need for such a claim. Sort of like, “Love ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out.”

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@patrickrhone Ha! Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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@patrickrhone We get this all the time from customers at the shop.

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@danielpunkass Great app.

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@jsonbecker Right you are: Douglas Coupland has an essay somewhere on “personality vs. pathology.”

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@patrickrhone 🤞🏼

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@patrickrhone Mazel!

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@ingrid Mazel!

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@patrickrhone 👑

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@manton South Brooklyn shout out to Books Are Magic!

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@patrickrhone Great to see you all as well. Thanks for stopping by!

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@patrickrhone No argument here.

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@jarrod The iPhone Air reminds me of the 1st generation MacBook Air, whose only virtue was that it was thin and light. Otherwise, it was more or less a weak and slow MacBook.

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@ingrid 👏🏼

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@patrickrhone Love it.

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@val Happy birthday! 🎉

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@patrickrhone I’ll vouch for this one.

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@mollytempleton.com Honest and helpful, too. Also: much love to you!

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