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2017

Monday, January 30th

two takes

Phil Ochs (1940-1976), “The War Is Over”

Lady Gaga, live, 2016


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Phil Ochs, live, 1960s


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lagniappe

reading table

Our credo must be the exposure of the plunderers, the steerers, the wirepullers, the bosses, the brokers, the campaign givers and takers . . . So I say: Stew, percolate, pester, track, burrow, besiege, confront, damage, level, care.

— journalist Wayne Barrett, 1945-2017 (on his prayer card)

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2012

Tuesday, 11/20/12

what you’d be listening to if you were 21*

Kendrick Lamar, “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe”

Lady Gaga mix, released 11/8/12

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Album version (good kid, m.A.A.d city), released 10/22/12

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lagniappe

reading table

David Ferry, “The Birds,” Boston University, 2011

This poem appears in Ferry’s latest collection, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, which just won the National Book Award. Ferry, now in his late 80s, has said of the book’s title: “It’s not entirely personal. I think everybody’s slightly off the rails. Me too, but I don’t mean it’s my exclusive territory. Yours and mine.”

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*Based on a sample of one, my son Luke, who’s home for the holiday.

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