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Today's new music recommendation: Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 3: Sonata Dementia from the ensemble PARTCH. The album includes this piece, originally composed for jazz artists Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan (who never got the chance to play it). youtube.com/watch?v=nbwYG_1i…
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I met Rip Torn once, in 1990, on a movie location in NC. "You write science fiction?" he said, teeth in a scary grin. "I was in BEASTMASTER." Then he shook my hand and I ceased to exist for him. That was the start of Mr Wednesday in American Gods. RIP Rip.
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Tampa just elected @JaneCastor with 73+ percent of the vote. She was outspent by about $3 MILLION by a billionaire who voted for @realDonaldTrump. She's a former beat cop, police chief, & now the first LGBTQ+ Mayor of a major city in the Southeast.
This is a big, big deal.
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New H-1B rules would result in up to 5,340 more immigrants with a master’s degree or higher getting selected for a visa on.wsj.com/2DKHOWj
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Alabama: *possible inch of snow* “All classes are cancelled be safe out there”
Indiana: *potential windchill of -40°* “Woah! Haha wear a hat and gloves guys”
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Spotify execs hold offsite meeting at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun where rooms run up to $1,329 a night (= the artist royalty on almost a quarter of a million streams). dld.bz/hpyeu
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Remember when Charles Lindbergh went from America’s undisputed hero to a disgraced remnant of history’s ashbin just for supporting a virulently racist and anti-Semitic movement called... America First. – at Los Angeles, CA
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Deeeeelicious.
Sandy Hook families just won a court victory against Alex Jones that gives them access to InfoWars internal financial documents. abcnews.go.com/beta-story-co…
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BREAKING: Dramatic images just released by the White House show “unbelievable vehicles” now being used by migrants to drive across the Southern border.
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[blind date]
JEFF BEZOS: I brought you flowers
HER: Oh thanks. That's very sweet
JEFF BEZOS: I see you’ve liked flowers. Perhaps you’d like these other flowers
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The "Jazz Detective" Zev Feldman has a new job with Blue Note Records. dld.bz/hmjFB Zev really is the jazz detective -- and has been responsible for many releases of previously unheard tracks by the great artists of the past.
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Here is the brutal reality: because Barack Obama did not disparage, degrade or threaten TV networks, or call them the enemy of the people, they were perfectly content to deny him airtime for his immigration address. Because Trump did all of those things, they were intimidated. Oy
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"Bo Diddley & The Clash on a tour bus during The Clash's 1979 U.S. tour, Diddley was the opening act for the British band."
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This is a bit more consequential than a guy trying to dodge questions about a blow job by musing on the meaning of "is."
Outgoing White House Chief of Staff John Kelly says President Trump's border wall is "not a wall," and the idea was abandoned "early on" in the administration cbsn.ws/2CGHI1m
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VIDEO: Staffers caught dragging, slapping, & pushing migrant children at a detention facility operated by Southwest Key (a nonprofit whose CEO makes millions on the backs of undocumented children). Full video as obtained by the Arizona Republic: google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentr…
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The Russian effort to divert votes to Jill Stein was more extensive than previously thought bit.ly/2Cvicw3
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Every time the Fed raises rates, Trump’s payments on some $340 million in variable-rate loans go up bloom.bg/2CuMfUs
