Odds & Ends

Or as Dylan added, "Lost time is not found again."

No big theme here (for a change), just scattered things after the usual cartoons. You can still subscribe for free!

The great Allison Russell with Irish guy I’d never heard of before portraying Stevie & Tom at big NYC benefit on Thursday.

And Allison with husband in their group Birds of Chicago.

MOMA in NYC closed today due to savage knife attack. So a view of our final trip together to NYC before pandemic--exactly two years ago this week.

And a self-portrait there with the help of Brancusi.

Haunted by story of Ukraine mayor who refused to abide by Russian occupation and was hauled away? You might check out streaming one of best series of the century, A French Village, which explores how one town--and its mayor--deals with a Nazi takeover....

And two greats, Strout and Ferrante, discuss one of the best current series.

Christopher Nolan's next movie is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the Father of the Atomic Bomb." Now we learn that Cormac McCarthy's long-awaited next novel features two haunted children of a maker of the Bomb. But you can read about Oppie who stars in my recent book now:

Proud to have edited this back at Crawdaddy in 1970s:

LEONARD COHEN: “I like art that comes from under the bridge. Everything is going on on top of the bridge: the clashes, the declarations, the manifestos, the splits, the alliances, the betrayals – and a couple of guys are lying under the bridge trying to recover from a hangover. They look up from time to time. They can hear it. But I like that view – right under the bridge.”

Bonus song: Sandy Denny, rare demo, on Irish classic, “She Moved Through the Fair.”