Collected Links (06/06/2022)

• The (initial?) Brookings Report on the January 6 insurrection attempt and the President Trump's involvement.
• Rolling Stone article on the very tortuous and very interesting writing of The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
• Mark Strand's A Piece of the Storm -- with audio -- at the blog Chawed Rosin, via Nag on the Lake
• Skelling Michael (the island monestary that served as Luke's last home in the Star Wars sequels), also via Nag
• Lidar uncovered remains of buried ancient developed areas of what is now called the Casarabe culture in the Amazon in Bolivia.
• Another excellent walking map of London, again via Nag

Collected Links (06/04/2022)

• A Poetry Reading by Mark Strand at the Library of Congress (1987) -- @ 9:10 Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Looking for Poetry (Mark Strand translator) (the reading/poem leading to this post); also: de Andrade's Boy Crying in the Night @ 6:05, Your Shoulders Hold Up the World @ 7:21; Strand's Narrative Poetry @ 13:36 (meh -- N.B. a narrative poem about narrative poetry), Grete Samsa's Letter to H @ 20:10 (again, meh -- N.B. a prose poem), Virgento Ad Julianus [sp?] @ 24:51, Luminism @ 26:08, The Famous Scene @ 28:52 (lovely, in its manner -- is good poetry hyperbole?), Always @ 30:28 (also lovely), Violent Storm @ 33:18 (early Strand . . . and lovely), Keeping Things Whole @ 36:45 (his most famous poem? he always seems to read it -- he precedes reading this by saying he doesn't like it because it took him too little time to write), Seven Days @ 38:33 (meh -- but this supposedly took him a long time to write), Shooting Whales @ 42:08 (richer than a Winslow Homer painting), [although Strand elides the title, next is My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer] @ 46:14 (very good), Viewing the Coast [is this it? Black Sea] @ 49:16 (wonderful), Alcetus [sp?] @ 54:02, and The Empire of Chance @ 56:02 (meh).
• Exceptionnelle démo de beatbox par MB14 - En Aparté slyt (Rocks on many levels)
• Former Chief Justice Rehnquist's long addiction to Placidyl -- imagine if a "liberal" Justice was well-known, as Rehnquist was, to have such am addiction -- would not most of the current press go nuts?
• "In The Number Ones, [Tom Breihan, a columnist at Stereogum, is] reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958 . . ." Via MetaFilter
  
• I've been taking a short hiatus on vomiting over Fox News
• "Mr. Spock" "sings" "Twinkle Twinkle Little Earth" on Leonard Nimoy's album "Music from Outer Space."