Siftings
21 From 2020
The year wasn’t great, but there were some great tunes along the way. Here’s some that were mostly new in 2020, but all pertain to it somehow.
21. American Aquarium – Me + Mine
2020 - one long lamentation.
20. Sturgill Simpson – Ronin, Remember To Breath, Sing Along, A Good Look, Make...
Endings
Update: If your pitcher has shut down the strongest hitting team in the league through six innings, you let him keep going if someone reaches first base.
There’s your October surprise. The Los Angeles Dodgers, with their $107 million payroll, lose Game 4 of the World Series to the 189th best...
Shedding Layers
In the office before the sun touches the Pacific. The State has two questions about the homeless grant and I want the answers - good answers - to be the first thing they see in the morning. Not to read too much into the questions but, if those are their only remaining questions, there might be...
System of an Up
Near midnight, arrive in the One-ga-low kitchen from City Hall after a Council meeting. Though many thought it impossible, the Zoom meetings have made them longer. Gonna have a cookie. Flip on the light and my current nemesis scatter from the countertop. Ants, so make that nemesi. I have a...
Pretty In Silver
"A John Hughes Film" scrolling through the credits of a 1980s movie was soothing to the soul. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink and a dozen more, scrolling by, telling some Capraesque tale of longing and redemption, but with vibrant colors and slick soundtracks. The decade...
Beds We Make
“Honey, I’m home”. It’s a joke I’d sometimes tell myself, out loud, while returning to the one-room “Fortress of Solitude” tucked into an oak woodland of Carmel Valley. The joke would bounce off the cold masonry walls as I flicked the tuner and amp switches on, and KRML would crackle through the...
Malin vs Lee Enterprises
The petition is here
posted to 5.18.20 for ease of reference
Ten Things About Malin v. lee Enterprises
A summary is here
posted to 5.18.20 for ease of reference
Rhythm City Tax Records
Rhythm City Tax Records (here)
posted to 5.18.20 for ease of reference
beached former casino barge credit - http://www.kynantait.com/bloggery
Countdown - Music From The Pre-Isolation Era
A baker’s dozen live songs from when social distancing was the last thing on our minds. To make you (or, at least, me) smile, and look forward to a concert, someday.
13. Foo Fighters – Everlong
The last eight minutes of Letterman.
12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Let The Day...
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