Saturday, January 02, 2021

How Boz got his fizz

 

Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings

On the weight of the world and the weight of the sky.


Willie Nelson Understands New Yorker


BEWARE:  Authorities Issue Multiple Warnings on Concealed Carry Text Message Scam.



How Boz got his fizz Times Literary Supplement


10 geological discoveries that absolutely rocked 2020 Live Science


 So how do I do it?… I invite the people into my living room…”


Why The Empire Strikes Back is overrated BBC


CHANGE:  The Domino Effect of Mark Levin Leaving Facebook For Parler.“The follower count is key. Levin has 4.2 million followers on Parler, which is more than his 2.8 million on Twitter or 1.6 million on Facebook. While Twitter and Facebook have more accounts, Parler’s users are highly engaged and responsive. To figures like Levin, engagement and monetization are of much greater importance than the raw number of accounts a platform reaches.”


A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it Mongabay 


The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning The Narwhal


Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81 NYT


Souvenir of the Lost World of the New York Jazz Club New York Review of Books


Richard Eccles, music nut, mate and former editor of Cumbria Life magazine sent me this fascinating essay on Paul McCartney.  I declared my support for Macca in my September 1 post (and indeed on September 26 2018, July 28 2014 and July 3 2007), but this essay by Ian Leslie is the bees knees.

 

Recommended Christmas holiday reading.

   Ian Leslie, The Ruffian, 64 Reasons to Celebrate Paul McCartney.



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