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I was recently arrested by the following image, which gave me the most curious and in some ways splendorous dream: First, the dream: I was in hell. Not, mind you, an ancient hell: not a subterranean hell, a chthonian nightmare beset by the draconic breath of cavernous beasts and baleful woes, no Sheol or Hades or Tartaros or naraka or Inferno. Instead, I… ncG1vNJzZmiolaeyr7rImqOdoZensrS%2FyKilZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLfSoquin5Gnr6mtjKWYs5miqsBurc2dZJygop7AtQ%3D%3D

Kenny Clarke's name as co-composer on the original releases.It dawned on me that drummer Kenny Clarke is a co-author of three essential songs in the jazz repertoire. Like so much about Clarke, this simple fact feels hidden in plain sight: “Salt Peanuts”, by Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke, copyright 1941; “Epistrophy” a.k.a. “Fly Right”, by Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke, copyright 1941; “Rue Chaptal” a.k.a. “Royal Roost”, a.k.a. “Sportin’ Life”, a.

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Knife Tattoo I stayed too long and said too many things.  Not one cab on Columbus.  Crossed the park and went home.  It was late. Handsome men  and their dogs roamed the lawns.  I could smell them. See the shape of their shoulders.  The outlines of their cocks in their pants.  How could you look at me like someone 

With the draft nearly upon us, let’s streamline this process. As most of you reading this know, I’ve been looking at wide receivers for this year’s “know your Chiefs draft crush” series. As you can find in yesterday’s article on Javon Baker, I’ve taken a close look at 9 different wide receivers who are considered likely to be drafted in rounds 1-3 (Mitchell, McConkey, Worthy, Coleman, Thomas, Franklin, Legette, Polk, and Baker… you can find the links in the Baker article).

Welcome back to the Thai Island & Coastal Directory, a book-in-progress that promises to be the most complete guide to coastal Thailand ever written in English, covering more than 800 islands and all 24 coastal provinces. Subscribe for $5 USD monthly to get the T.I.C.D. and an archive of other in-depth articles. T.I.C.D. ticker: So far, we’ve covered 650 islands and 181 notable mainland areas in 37 sections, including this one.

These days in Israel the parting greeting is usually “b’sorot tovot”—which literally means “good news” as in, may we hear good news. Mostly, for the last seven months, the news is unrelentingly bad—our soldiers die, Gazan civilians die, the world has redefined the meaning of genocide and feels increasingly hostile, the Biden Administration is cutting off our ammunition and seems uneager for us to destroy Hamas, and so on. All of this is bad enough, but there is little on the positive side.

Hudson Soft, founded in the 70s, did just about everything a studio and publisher could do in the video game industry before it was fully absorbed into Konami on March 1, 2012. For the next month here at Retro XP, the focus will be on the roles the studio played, the games they developed, the games they published, the consoles they were attached to, and the legacy they left behind. After all, someone has to remember them, since Konami doesn’t always seem to.

I wrote a book about 60 years of New York City rock music scenes called This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City which came out last week (you can purchase it here). Naturally, in the course of writing a book about New York City music scenes, I interviewed a lot of New York City musicians, deejays, club workers and … ncG1vNJzZmivkaG4sLrToZywoZyZwKqwxKewnGajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvKqKalZZ2ksm6wxJ4%3D

Hello! Welcome to today’s KP+ aka curd fest. We’re going dive right in, but before we do, let me just say thank you so much for being here. I’m not sure why something so ‘simple’ has intimidated me. The subject of fruit curds has long been on my list of topics to write about. And though this little adventure will strictly be about citrus, I’ll make a note to come back in the warmer months and investigate a wider group of fruits and ask those three important words: “Will it curd?