music clip of the day

If making mindless music is so easy, how come so few do it well?

Ramones, live, London, 1977

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lagniappe

reading table

Life on Earth is quite a bargain.
Dreams, for one, don’t charge admission.
Illusions are costly only when they’re lost.
The body has its own installment plan.

—Wislawa Szymborska, “Here” (excerpt; trans. Clare Cavanagh & Stanislaw Baranczak)