The NYC hospital my wife has worked for 20 years serving a needed population in Lower Manhattan as a cardiologist is now closing. Another sad loss for NYC and a huge adjustment for my family as she now has to find a new job.
The hospital property will be turned into luxury condos in short order.
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As Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital Faces Closure, Patient Care Suffers - The New York Times
US cops never turn out like this at Nazi rallies or school shootings, but against peaceful genocide protesters they bring their very best A game, huh? (Photo: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
“We are like night and day, [Dylan] and I,” she said. “Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.”
“Musically, Dylan’s not very gifted; he’s borrowed his voice from old hillbillies. He’s got a lot of borrowed things. He’s not a great guitar player. He’s invented a character to deliver his songs … it’s a mask of sorts.”
As a child of the 70s and early 80s I want to know what happened to all those people that regularly just spontaneously combusted? Did they all get abducted by UFOs? Sink in all the quicksand? Got lost in the Bermuda Triangle? Did Nostradamus predict their horrible apocalyptic death? Get lost finding Noah's Ark on the top of a mountain somewhere? Is the Spock guy out there searching for them?
Interesting how Jack Dorsey calls the people who did not want to use Twitter under Musk and who were looking for alternatives like Bluesky or Mastodon “common” …. What a dickhead. These tech lord billionaires are fascist through and through…Amazing that having a moral compass and values that don’t align with bitcoin shilling tech bros is “common”
While I love the blues->british blues->blues rock tradition, by god I wish new artists in the genre would be more experimental & lyrically topical instead of mired in nostalgia.
Hendrix used new gadgets, weird harmonies and sang about the Vietnam War in real time. It took hours for CSN&Y to make the tragedy of Kent State into "Ohio"...
Now it's just midwestern white dudes singing about "train tracks lead me home mama, drink my whiskey full of 'dem blues" lyrics. Just absolutely soul deadening.
That time in 1982 on an episode of CHiPS where the guy from ‘Happy Days’ played a satanic glam rocker and the guy that would grow up to actually be Metallica’s bass player was “Flippy”, a kid who needed some mentoring from Ponch.
