Wednesday, August 14th

by musicclipoftheday

sounds of Egypt

Some singers once you begin listening to them you cannot stop.

Umm Kulthum (spelled variously in English; c. 1904-1975), “Enta Omri” (You Are My Life), live, Paris (Olympia Theater), 1967

Listening to this one night at 2:30 a.m., after waking up and getting a glass of milk, I couldn’t make up my mind: Is YouTube a good thing, or a bad thing, for insomniacs?

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lagniappe

found words

Scores Are Killed as Forces Storm Camps of Morsi Backers

—Headline, New York Times website, today