I’m still working on an essay about this but in the meantime it’s always nice to have a new entry on the list of things that prove my point (the fact that said list already had one million items notwithstanding)

Mind-blowing musicianship in this clip, allow me to break it down: Anderson gives a countoff and the chaotic intro ensues, then in bar 7 Anderson gives a triplet in a distinctly slower tempo which the keyboard player picks up perfectly – you see his head bop as he pulls the tempo back, lazily arpeggiating as Anderson says "ooh!" and smiles, he digs it. Anderson is absolutely the front man but he's always listening to his guys, playing off them (must be a blast being in his group). Then Anderson cues the band with "Alright, check it out" – he let the vamp simmer a little longer than he did on the album version, had to let it get cooking properly. By the time he gets to "Your Heart Don't Stand a Chance" they're locked in, slower than the album version but it's a different environment with fewer instruments in a cramped space which affects how a band plays. That's the beauty of live music, you never know what's gonna happen even if you're in the band, hence Anderson saying "Let's see how we're gonna do this" at the top, even he's not sure. There's a good reason this video has 122M views (I think about 10M of them are me).

A characteristically lucid and thoughtful essay from Kat Rosenfield wrestling with the bizarre ecosystem of take-havers and discourse that has sprung up around the Clancy trial.

Most common reason I reject editorials submitted to journals is that they attack "conventional wisdom" or "the received view" which no one holds, as evidenced by the fact that they don't cite anyone who supports the views they are critiquing. A lot of academics just can't let go of the self-image of brave rebel fighting the Establishment, even when they are in every way the embodiment of that Establishment.

"There is only one set of hands. There is only one woman on trial. There is only one world, and Lindsay Clancy is alive in it, while her children are dead." Damn good piece of writing by @katrosenfield:

really enjoying the Schrödinger’s catcall aspect of middle age where I genuinely no longer know if the guy honking at me in a parking lot is doing it in a “hey baby” kind of way or just wants me to get the fk out of the road

really enjoying the Schrödinger’s catcall aspect of middle age where I genuinely no longer know if the guy honking at me in a parking lot is doing it in a “hey baby” kind of way or just wants me to get the fk out of the road

My most conservative position, apparently, is that being forced to pretend belief in things that deeply violate your conscience and sense of truth as a condition of participating in society is an extremely big deal -- for reasons George Orwell explained better than I can

This piece is as maddening and fantastic as everyone says (no surprise, @Tyler_A_Harper has a gift for storytelling), but the best part might be this sense-making bit at the end; the hollowing of journalism and the arts flows at least in part from this same dynamic