Always helps.

Ryan Grayson, my comrade from The Up On In, has some new songs to better strum away your bummer!

“Perhaps more than most, Americans hold many illusions about the kind of nation in which we live. We tell ourselves that we are the freest country in the world, that we have the best system of government, that we welcome all comers, that we are efficient and dynamic where the rest of the world is stagnant and dysfunctional. Some of those things have been true at some points in time, but none of them is true at this point in time.”

via kottke.org: Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar, and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air

The country had been brutal for a very long time, from the beginning actually. And now the rhetoric began to mirror reality. Developments Since My Birth | by Wallace Shawn | The New York Review of Books

Nick Cave – The Red Hand Files – Issue #120: Dear Nick, What do you think about NA?

I found this album as MP3s awhile back while hunting for Abdul Wadud sessions. Very excited to see it coming back into print: The blistering cosmic music of The Black Unity Trio – The Wire

I’m always at least interested and often captivated by whatever Teju Cole has to say, where, when, or however he says it: Stopping by with Teju Cole