Allen Ginsberg's mother, Naomi, died on this day in 1956 as the result of a botched lobotomy. Allen wrote about the traumatic events leading up to her death in his greatest poem, "Kaddish." [photo colorized and digitally enhanced]
The "failure" comment makes sense in context, b/c Graham is saying Hitler should have been stopped sooner. But that underlines the fact that this simpering hypocrite is one of the most shameless and opportunistic apologists for the aspiring American Hitler. Now it's people like Trump and Graham who must be stopped. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C7_8sgegp9M
@stevesilberman I still don’t get it. It was right-wingers like Graham who appeased Hitler, just as Graham and his party are now appeasing Putin. What lesson does he expect us to draw?
Anthony Bourdain died tragically on this day in 2018. In 2009, Bourdain visited my neighborhood in San Francisco and went to the coolest bar in the Haight with one of the best living poets, my friend August Kleinzahler. Here's August's remembrance. https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/june/remembering-anthony-bourdain
Prominent GOP thought-leader Rudy Giuliani, embodying the spirit and values of today's Republican Party and the teachings of Jesus Christ, calls District Attorney Fani Willis a "ho" at a Christian gathering. https://www.threads.net/@davidcorn1/post/C7-YNOeIKV8
Richard Linklater's "Hit Man," which just dropped on Netflix, may not be an all-time great film, but it's fun and sassy - a noir screwball comedy, basically.
Why RFK Jr. and Nicole Shanahan are so dangerous for the people they claim to represent. If you missed this new SciAm column of mine because you hit a paywall, here's a de-paywalled version: http://archive.today/x0Bir
I'm on Jesse Jarnow's fabulous Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast this week to talk about my second Dead show, 8/6/74 at Roosevelt Stadium. At 1:01:40 or so, I mention a mystery that has haunted me for decades -- a curious sequence of notes that Garcia played several times that night, and throughout his career, that I've never heard anyone else mention. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-pride-cucamonga
@stevesilberman I'll be listening for it, it's certainly very familiar and I think I'm used to hearing it mostly in deconstructed/spacy jams.
Best Eyes EVER!
The funky jam between the end of the Tiger melt and the start of Scarlet is among my all time fav Dead moments, the theme recurs only two other times I know of
LinkedIn cofounder @reidhoffman.bsky.social on why American business should not empower the criminal Trump. (Related: I once sat in a room with Peter Thiel, Bush torture lawyer John Woo and other creeps. Hoffman was one of the few people there who seemed human.) De-paywalled link: http://archive.today/jon6u
This is the first time I've seen this kind of publisher's warning in the front matter of a book: "All rights reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies." In a book coming later this year from Greystone Books.
Blatantly corrupt Trump tool Aileen Cannon, who should not just be disbarred but arrested and charged with obstruction of justice, draws so many complaints that Florida court tries to dismiss them as an "orchestrated campaign." https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/politics/cannon-orchestrated-complaints-trump