music clip of the day

old school

Dixie Hummingbirds, We Love You Like a Rock (excerpts), 1995

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lagniappe

reading table

You would think that living is a kind of scholarship in time, and that the longer we live the more expert we become at coping with it, in the way that, if you play tennis enough, you get used to coping with faster and faster serves. Instead I find that the longer I live the more bemused I become, and the more impenetrable the subject shows itself to be. I sit on a heap of days.

—Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief (James Wood, “Fly Away,” New Yorker, 12/8/14)

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taking a break

I’m taking some time off—back in a while.