"Before I read Robert Hilburn’s biography of Randy Newman, I didn’t know Newman was kind of lying in interviews when he said his song 'Short People' was about prejudice. 'I just thought it was funny,' he said. 'The Art of Dying,' a posthumous collection of writings by the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl, came out this year. He was ill with cancer when he compiled it. He wrote: 'I swatted a fly the other day and thought, Outlived you.'"
Writes Dwight Garner, the NYT book critic and my favorite garner, in "Our Book Critics on Their Year in Reading/Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that 'offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads'" (NYT).
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Constipation is one of the side effects of heroin use so maybe that explains a lot.
South Park addressed this in the "Brown Noise" episode.
Before I read Robert Hilburn’s biography of Randy Newman, I didn’t know Newman was kind of lying in interviews when he said his song 'Short People' was about prejudice. 'I just thought it was funny,' he said.
I always heard it was about the Eagles manager Irving Azoff.
I went a full body massage (one hour) the other day (I had been in so much pain all over that I really needed it - not the happy ending kind) and avoided eating the gumbo I had added beans to as a stretching method for several days so I won't pass gas during the session.
“ On the topic of drugs, Glenn Loury divulged in “Late Admissions,” his memoir, that he once smoked crack in an airplane at 30,000 feet. He’d hidden it in his shoe.”
Now this is culture. I hope Ross Doughnut read it.
I read the story and then the top 100 books of 2024. Only three that I’m slightly interested in reading. I was wondering how such insular books got published.
I played trumpet for years and never had this problem. Must be related to reed instruments
I'm not a jazz expert by any means, but Sonny Rollins is really cool. Up there with Brubeck and Dizzy.
Saxophone Colossus
No "garner" tag on this one?
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