I’m not usually a fan of memoirs, but I couldn’t resist Bruce Cockburn’s Rumours of Glory. And it’s turned out to be better than I expected (and I’d actually expected a lot!).
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What I’m Reading: Bruce Cockburn’s Rumours of Glory
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Antecdote
antecdote (an-tik-doht), n. a short and often amusing account of an incident or event that serves to prevent or counteract the effects of an unraveling reality. Ex.: The press conference at Four Seasons Landscaping became a go-to antecdote to ease the endless drum of election denialism.
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Liner Notes: Hold Me Now
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash I have a few favorites from the Better Late than Neverland album. This is one of them.
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The Best, Etc., of 2025
Photo (?) by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash It’s frustrating that a year that was reasonably good personally was such a shit show civically.
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What I’m Reading: Myers’s Points in the Network
From the cover of Points in the Network. Cover art by Jill McClennan. I’m only about halfway through, but I can recommend Gabrielle Myers’s new collection of poems, Points in the Network.
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Liner Notes: Monkey Dance (Cover)
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash “Monkey Dance” is a cover of a relatively obscure song by T-Bone Burnett, who has long been my favorite music producer.
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