Enough about Trump. I just need to move on. The only things about him worth covering are his legal and financial problems. I doubt he goes to jail but I hope he winds up there.
New stuff on the About page
I added links to categories and monthly archives if you want to search for older posts.
John Prine remembered one year after his death
John Prine died on April 7, 2020. I was fortunate enough to see him perform several times. I saw him at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in the early 1970s and remember that he sang “Please Don’t Bury Me” and “The Accident” before they were released on Sweet Revenge in 1973. I saw him at the Academy of Music around 1976 with Steve Goodman. They both performed solo with acoustic guitars and did the encore together. The last time I saw him was at Pier Six in Baltimore in 2011.
If you don’t know Prine, I would start with his first album John Prine from 1971. It has many of his best songs such as “Angel from Montgomery”, “Sam Stone” and Hello in There”. What a great singer and songwriter.
The first Orioles Opening Day in 1954
Opening day of the baseball season is great. I have been to about a dozen of them in Baltimore, all but one at Memorial Stadium.
Voter suppression update 4/8/21
The Tamagotchi Cemetery (article from Burials and Beyond)
Pigtown Climbs
I donated to this excellent cause.
John Tyler still has a living grandchild
This is amazing. John Tyler was president from 1841-1845. He had eight children with his first wife and seven children with his second wife. His first child was born in 1815. His last child was born in 1860.
Republican vaccine hesitancy
I do give Mitch McConnell credit for encouraging Republican men to get vaccinated.
Republican hypocrisy on the vaccine passport idea
Republicans are opposed to a vaccine passport but they do this:
The cover of The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon has been notoriously opposed to being photographed. For his second book, The Crying of Lot 49, the dust jacket of the first printing has a black space where the author’s picture should be. See the second picture in this listing for a copy of the book.
I have a copy of a later printing. There are now reviews where the black space was.
Covers: Keep on the Sunny Side
“Keep on the Sunny Side” is best known from the 1982 Carter Family recording and the recording by the Whites used in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
