Giotto’s Stars

Light the lamp!

… Not the rat! Light the lamp, not the rat!

RIP Joe Ely (and Joe Strummer, too)

Joe Ely was so important to Texas music and especially to me when I lived in Austin in the early ’80s. This Texas Monthly tribute by Michael Hall is great.

I will try to remember these

The three lenses of opportunity cost: (1) Compared with what? (2) And then what? (3) At the expense of what? — Shane Parish

Nice Bake

Pearl Harbor Day

The attack on Pearl Harbor came 84 years ago today. We remember those who died that day.

The Spotify thing

My most played albums in 2025. A pretty typical assortment, I guess.

Mom

This little girl would’ve been 102 years old today.

RIP, Tom Stoppard

Stoppard was the author of the greatest (imo) English-language play of the last 50 years, “Arcadia,” and in “Leopoldstadt,” his last play, one of the most wrenching last scenes in the theater.