We could’ve spent all summer enforcing mask use and social distancing. We could’ve sacrificed small pleasures for the greater good. We could’ve kept this from happening. But instead, we’re blindly barreling toward reopening even though we know teachers and students will die. We’re going to treat COVID the same way we treat school shootings. An unfortunate but unavoidable cost to doing business.
Please read this story. It’s devastating.
Jason at Six Colors has all the details on the first public beta of Apple’s Big Sur.
I’m still on the fence regarding loading it up but I might just give it a go this weekend.
This Will Be Our Year from the criminally underrated Zombies. A real pop classic here.
Aztec Camera - Rainy Season
Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.
It is a disturbing display of ineptitude and disregard for life that fuels this failure. The administration failed on every level to contain or control this pandemic’s effect in the US. It didn’t need to be like this, and it’s not going to get any better until massive changes in our efforts take place.
Director Alan Parker has passed. I loved Midnight Express and The Wall among others but I’ve always had a soft spot for the challenging but very rewarding Birdy with Matthew Modine and Nick Cage.
Legendary Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green has passed. Here is the classic Green Manalishi
We lost Emitt Rhodes today - a real treasure.
Let’s just chuck it in and start the lockdown over.
Except, in truth, the nightmare was not over – the country was not awake – and a new wave of cases was gathering with terrifying force.
The Allman Brothers Band remained, until the end, the best live band on the planet.
How wonderful to hear new music from Kevin Godley - here’s the first available preview track from his first ever solo release.
Obvious metaphor is obvious.
Quarantined but still rocking out - High on Stress
Some Paul Weller for your Friday night enjoyment Here
Between this and “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”, it’s almost as if The Police anticipated 2020.
I was in the mood to hear some Bonnie Raitt this afternoon. I hope you enjoy.
Vote Yellow…
“The risk of a second wave happening if all interventions and all precautions are abandoned is very real,”
What we did helped, we can’t lose sight of the goal now.
Bad Maps
Everywhere…
John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.
The Temptations knew.
I love our kitties.. Eggs and Fee in full on hugging mode.
This is patently insane behavior and is yet another example of why this goon is unfit for office. It’s such a common thing, in fact, that I suspect someone will tell me that he does this all the time and I shouldn’t be surprised anymore.
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Would she be proud of herself? I wondered. Would she come to a new understanding of what she was capable of? Would she feel like a more full-fledged cat if she could find it within herself to take such a leap of faith?
