Victoria Goddard

Fantasy readers, I highly recommend Victoria Goddard’s wonderful books. Her masterpiece, in my opinion, is The Hands of the Emperor, and for sheer fun (and, at first, disorienting weirdness), Stargazy Pie and its companion books are wonderful. Goddard is so good.

Bueller… Bueller… Bueller… Um, he’s sick.

Vis a vis the 2025 coup: Checks and balances only work if the other two branches check and balance. Congress and the courts are, um, sick (unto death, for Congress). If they croak, they’ll be very difficult to resurrect.

Caught.

Whaddya Think?

Ringo Starr and Lucinda Williams need to record together. (And, not to put too fine a point on it, daylight’s burning.)

Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama

Often, a highlight of my week is a new (to me) poem shared by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Today’s, “Neanderthal Dig” by Don McKay, is especially rich.

Hangin’ Out

A good one from Poorly Drawn Lines.

RIP, Garth Hudson

“Anybody who gets a chance to play with Garth Hudson, they’d be a fool not to. As far as The Band is concerned, he’s the one who rubbed off on the rest of us and made us sound as good as we did.” – Levon Helm

Update: more here.

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Garden Note

January 18 2025: Started tomato seeds inside today.

Three Little Buechners

From a trip to Half-Price Books.

Pink Moon