music clip of the day

“Cold, Cold Heart”

“I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You)”

“I Saw The Light”

Who else, when it comes to syllables, does so much with so little?

Hank Williams (with others), “I Saw The Light”
TV broadcast (The Kate Smith Evening Hour), 3/26/52

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lagniappe

reading table

George Crosby remembered many things as he died, but in an order he could not control. To look at his life, to take the stock he always imagined a man would at his end, was to witness a shifting mass, the tiles of a mosaic spinning, swirling, reportraying, always in recognizable swaths of colors, familiar elements, molecular units, intimate currents, but also independent now of his will, showing him a different self every time he tried to make an assessment.

—Paul Harding, Tinkers (2009)