I spent very little time with the computer on 4.19.26. We finally had some much-needed rain during the night between the 18th and the 19th of April, and the 19th was cool, breezy, sapphire clear, and gorgeous.
Books
Muriel Spark was a brilliant minor author, one of the few twentieth century novelists whose work my church college deemed worth reading. She excelled in studies of the consequences of people's behavior, things that make readers say "How bad was that?" and then consider what it led to. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was made into a movie. My favorite of her novels was the short one sometimes bound in at the end of other, not quite so short, ones, The Ballad of Peckham Rye.
Etiquette
Found unattributed. Lens says it's one of Emily Flake's.
Music
Doo-wop rock version of a Sunday School song.
The Clash.
Tears for Fears.
Flock of Seagulls.
and
Avishai Cohen, whose music is a unique genre unto itself, rather like Priscilla Bird's speculative fiction, which may explain why she often links to his music. A large part of my playlists does come from the daily Meow.
Roger Miller.
Antti Martikainen.
Bland instrumental pop tunes played as background music in stores...this is a recent tape; through the 1980s they still tended to strive for "light classical" effects with violins and wind instruments, rather than drums and guitars. Stop and start, or use for a long workout. "Bargain" cassette tapes ran for 90 minutes and this is one.
Politicians, Pathetic
Gavin Newsome just spent $1.5 million on copies of his less than successful book. It does not sell well in stores but Gavin's self-purchases boosted it onto the bestseller list. You could read the story at
but why pay them? They censor the news anyway. Politicized gloating is at
Restaurants
It just might replace the doomed "splash park" in my town...I think Friday Market is too much a part of my town's identity not to be brought back, if and when we fully recover from COVID-panic. But will food trucks be part of the bustle? Why not, if people like them.
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