Crossover

When Charlie Parker played for Igor Stravinsky

Thanx to Follow Me Here

You say that as if there were something wrong with it

The simple and obvious idea that consent marks the difference between acceptable and unacceptable sex horrifies Rush Limbaugh.

Prize

I’m not going to argue with Bob Dylan getting the Nobel, though he was my second choice, after Ursula Le Guin. I hope she & Philip Roth & Elena Ferrante enjoy the Losers Party.

ETA: And John Crowley discusses one of my faves.

Peter Grubmeyer 1941-2016

One of the best people I ever knew was my Swarthmore classmate Pete Grubmeyer, a quiet, gentle person who loved to teach and spent a lot of his off-hours helping the poor and the homeless. He did all that because of an intense Christian faith that I hope was a comfort to him as he battled a series of cancers, which finally took him out the other day.

I assume that Pete believed there’s a better life after this one. I don’t know if he was right (and you don’t either), but I am, like Raymond Smullyan, a sperotheist (one who hopes there is a God), and I hope Pete is enjoying the bliss he deserves.