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@Bernard said in New Year, new music? Ambitions?:

@jon-nyc Beautiful pieces. I especially like the g minor.

Thanks. Were you at my piano party a few years back when Bootsy’s son played it?

Everybody gets a trophy.

Seems a bit of a stretch (more of an analogy) but interesting all the same.

https://thecounterpoint.substack.com/p/baumol-cost-disease-is-killing-the?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

Working on two of Rachmaninoff’s Etudes Tableaux. The C major and G minor from Op 33.

I was rarely a read-more-than-one-book-at-a-time guy but I seem to be now. I generally have something I'm listening to, and something I'm reading in bed at night.

In the last week I finished Andrew Ross Sorkin's 1929. Fantastic book. It takes you through the crash and its aftermath in narrative form, telling the story through a handful of principals. It is not an in-depth study of the depression, more about the crash and the legal aftermath and congressional action culminating in Glass Steagel. Its a pretty short book, shorter than it seemed on kindle since over half is endnotes. I was surprised when the book ended and kindle said I was only 43% of the way through.

I also finished listening to Chernow's new bio of Mark Twain. I enjoyed the book, and never considered putting it down, but I'm going to be honest and say it was a bit of an endurance test. (in fact I think that phrase made it into the NYT review of it). It is 1200+ pages, and the narration was 44+ hours. It could use editing down to maybe 60% of its current length.

Having said all that, he was a fascinating man with a fascinating life and I'm glad I read it. I didn't know all that much about him. There are two Mark Twin houses in Connecticut that operate as museums, I may go see them at some point.

Haven’t seen them yet, fortunately. I was in Chicago in November but didn’t see them. I’ll be in SFO and LA and Sandy Eggo next month (west coast college tours with the boy). Might see them there.

Zero chance they’d do this without his ok

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2009340240314393028?s=46

@CHAS said in Ein Volk, Ein Reich:

No song to the Fatherland??

Waiting to hear the Horst Wessel song at the convention in ‘28.

Next up: "Work will set you free"

Is it more charitable to assume they’re purposely aping Nazi slogans or that Nazi slogans just occur to them independently?

wtf?

https://x.com/usdol/status/2010141673389769214?s=46

I recently purchased a carbon steel pan hoping for natural nonstick properties and light weight. I mostly use it for the boy’s scrambled eggs. I like it but it has a ways to go to become as nonstick as I’d like.

Funny I just ran across this.

@Axtremus said in What’s more weird?:

I wonder what the American Enterprise Institute or the Heritage Foundation or the Chamber of Commerce think of this.

Heritage would say "Gee your ass is yummy, Mr President". AEI and CoC would pan it politely.

This would require an amendment to the Truth in Lending Act. Apparently in the next 10 days.

The president stealing the dumbest lefty ideas or the number of people actually taking it seriously as if this is something he has the power to do?