Monthly Archives: March 2019

World Poetry Day today, and as much as you love Mistah Percy Dovetonsils, we’ve handed the lede over to someone who’s a little, say, better-versed. Bonus: operatic voices!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/20/stephen-malkmus-pavement-band-berlin-nightlife-youtube Good interview.

Nat’l. Let’s Laugh Day in the U.S. of ’murrika.

Good morning still from a sunny Studio City, where the current temperature is 74°F, on the way to a high of 77°F around 2 p.m. PDT. Cloud cover is 0pc, as in zero percentage points out of 100, and the … Continue reading →

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day this time. Here’s some pop-music lads from Dublin that you might not have heard of.

A good song for our times.

Going into last night’s second leg of its Europa League Round-of-16 matchup against Stade Rennes, the No. London Arse were down 1-3; to advance to the quarterfinals, they would need to win the second leg by a scoreline of either … Continue reading →

Opened yesterday. Now closed again today. The carnage is up to 22 horses now, as of Thursday, 11:19 a.m. PDT. Some big news coming out of Arcadia at noon now. If it’s not the track, what is it?

Hoo-girl. Tulane was not among the schools named in yesterday’s bombshell college-admissions scandal indictments. Reasons: 1. Not prestigious enough. 2. Easy to get into. 3. Incorruptible administrators. 4. Napoleonic Code.

There’s been some cold winter weather here in sunny-again Southern California. To wit, the outside temperature in La-La Land never made it to 70°F (!) during February 2019! That’s the first February on record not to hit that mild mark! … Continue reading →