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Somehow, Cleveland has survived, with her gray banner unfurled -- the banner of Archangelsk and Detroit, of Kharkov and Liverpool -- the banner of men and women who would settle the most ignominious parts of the earth, and there, with the hubris born neither of faith nor ideology but biology and longing, bring into the world their whimpering replacements.

— Gary Shteyngart


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

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🦋 Practicing

John came over today; we played almost exclusively new songs, songs that we've played at most once or twice before, plus the two songs we'll be playing on Thursday at the open mic. Before he came over, I had been working on a tune that was in my head, without being able to figure out what it was -- turns out what I was thinking of was the chorus of "Frim Fram Sauce"; but not knowing that we just played through it together a couple of times, and came up with a bridge. Might be nice to learn the lyrics and try that one out. Other songs we played:

"Frim Fram Sauce" below the fold.

The melody I was working on and trying to remember more fully this evening:

"Frim Fram Sauce" as (masterfully) performed by Diana Krall:

posted evening of Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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