Love has everywhere to go.
If you claim to value education, vaccinate teachers.
Penn Station’s Beautiful New Moynihan Train Hall Is Now Open.
‘They just sort of showed up’: The Amish find a home in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
How the Muppets Helped Me Contemplate My Mortality This Christmas (ht to fillyjonk -also for the Bowie, below).
The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation.
In Conversation: Francis Ford Coppola.
The Hidden Depths of Alex Trebek’s Banter with “Jeopardy!” Contestants.
Good Advice About Bad Advice – as someone who was on JEOPARDY, I relate to this a LOT.
RIP Tommy Lasorda, who had one of the most memorable performances ever seen on a Capital Region baseball diamond.
RIP Bill Lambdin, a fixture in Capital Region news for decades.
1970 episode of the game show To Tell the Truth that featured William M. Gaines, the publisher of MAD.
RIP Dawn Wells.
Pet peeve – people who are always late.
A family of 12 siblings now holds the Guinness World Record for highest combined age.
“Show me the receipts” and other modern idioms.
12 Amazing U.S. Company Towns You Can Still Visit.
Now I Know: The Life-Saving Power of Television and The Rain Storm That Bugged Out and How Postage May Have Saved the Panama Canal and But Can a Ghost Be President?
Arthur’s dreams and Not missing American products.
Polly ticks
The Dark Reality of Betting Against QAnon.
Psychology Today, 2016 (and still true): The Psychology Behind Trump’s Unwavering Support.
Facing Legal and Political Peril, Trump Is Turning On Even His Most Devoted Allies.
Weekly Sift: Sedition and Free Speech and The Capitol Invasion is Both an End and a Beginning.
They’ve Showed Us Who They Are.
The Daily Social Distancing Show- Fox Your Feelings: Then and Now.
Democracy is a threat to white supremacy—and that is the cause of America’s crisis.
It’s Time For The Republican Party To Split.
2020
The Yearly Sift: Themes of the Year.
Politico: The Worst Predictions.
Record Year for Far-Right Violence in the US.
Google’s Year in Search.
20 things that went strangely, wonderfully right.
Words of the Year, including anti-masker, asymptomatic, asynchronous, coronavirus pandemic, doomscrolling, fraud, mostly peaceful, mute, QAnon, remote, social distancing, superspreader event, the Great Equalizer, unprecedented, well, Zoom.
The Streaming Wars Could Finally End in 2021.
100 best movies on AMAZON PRIME (DECEMBER 2020).
MUSIC
Bad Wolves – Rebecca Jade featuring Jason Mraz, Miki Vale and Veronica May.
Sedition – Randy Rainbow.
Their music will not ‘be forgot’: RIP 2020.
Coverville 1339 and 1340: The 2020 Coverville Countdown Part 1 and Part 2.
Coverville 1341: Gerry and The Pacemakers Tribute.
Movin’ Right Along – Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear.
Changes by David Bowie piano cover/lesson.
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92.
Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor.
Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos, in G major and E-flat Major, respectively.
Moonlight Sonata; also Symphony No. 1 and the Triple Concerto.
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor.
