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Monday 6/3/24

Hendrix is the most Lisztian of rock musicians. The first intention of each is to dazzle. That's why they may not connect emotionally to the extent that some other musical artists do.


I saw a list from Entertainment Weekly of the best haunted house movies which included The Curse of the Cat People despite it making for quite a stretch to classify the picture as such.


This is typical. A piece is assigned to someone who knows nothing about the subject and has never heard, prior to that assignment, of any of the things which they're now going to be "writing" about. They type in something on a search engine, grab some facts from Wikipedia, put in a few canned sentences with stock adjectives, and there you go.


Then no one reads the work in these venues because why would you, people get laid off, short attention spans are blamed, the magazines or websites fold or become increasingly irrelevant when they possessed little to no relevance already, and there are no writers out there who do anything a different way who could come in and offer any writing of value.


The dots don't need to be connected--they're right on top of each other. But apparently no one else can see this.


I finished the Dracula essay.


Moved the op-ed about the Negro Leagues. New place this time.


An aim with "The Bird"--part of the thinking--was to write something very simple that is also incredibly complex. Something that would seem total and saturating upon reading it--that is, it'd go through a person immediately, filling up all of them--and yet which would be like reading it for the first time--but in different ways--every other time hence.


The Stanley Cup Finals are set. The two best teams, I believe, are there. That's not a given, given the nature of the playoffs and the sport. It's more likely considering that this isn't a single-game elimination tournament, but hot streaks and hot goalies happen.


McDavid has a shot at 40 points and can break Gretzky's single-season playoff record for assists. If the Panthers win, Sergei Bobrovsky will be a Hall of Famer. He may be anyway, but that would make it automatic. His career looked all but over when the playoffs started last year. He didn't even start that Bruins series in net for the Panthers. Quite the resurgence, and not one to have been expected, as he had not been a particularly reliable playoff performer at any previous time in his career.


Something to think about: The Panthers trailed in their series against the Rangers two games to one. The next game went to OT, and Florida scored and didn't lose again in the series. If the Rangers had scored, it would have been 3-1 and where does that leave you?


What I'm saying is that things can change very quickly. In sport, in life.


Ran 5000 stairs yesterday at City Hall and did 100 push-ups. The day also marked 2884 days, or 412 weeks, without a drink.



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