Bill Wyman

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Former arts & media editor of Salon and NPR.

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Alec Baldwin dodges a bullet.

Case Against Alec Baldwin Is Dismissed Over Withheld Evidencewww.nytimes.com The involuntary manslaughter case against Mr. Baldwin fell apart after an envelope of ammunition that the prosecution had not shown the defense was brought into the courtroom.

The last five minutes of the great Serious Trouble podcast are quite funny as Josh Barro, discussing the Timberlake DUI arrest, throws a bucket or two of gay shade on the Hamptons. www.serioustrouble.show @kenwhite.bsky.social

Serious Trouble | Substackwww.serioustrouble.show An irreverent podcast about the law. Click to read Serious Trouble, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Every Beatles song is either 🎵 Hey, hey, hey 🎵 The sun came up today 🎵 I will be glad today 🎵 I'm going on my way Or (spoken) A woman was just killed Georgina Butterfield 🎵 [distorted circus noises]

Like a lot of people I am very appreciative of the amazing analysis surrounding Trump's legal adventures in the various podcasts. But I think I can speak for just about everyone when I say that we understand at this point that the New York Supreme Court is not the highest court in New York state.

Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter is a particular delight to read today. (The update on GameStop.) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?www.bloomberg.com

I wrote about the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm for Slate! If only there were some colorful phrase about what happens when a TV series goes on one season too many....

The Problem With Curb Your Enthusiasm Nowslate.com Twelve seasons in, Larry David has run out of things to say.

Here's my favorite Clapton/Harrison/Boyd/Layla story, from Clapton's autobiography: “I had even taken up with her sister [Paula]....[One night] George had taken me aside and suggested that I should spend the night with Pattie so that he could sleep with Paula...."

Eric Clapton’s letters from one of rock music’s most mythic love triangles are being auctioned this week. The handwritten messages shed light on how he wooed Pattie Boyd away from George Harrison and on the impassioned songs — including “Layla” — that the affair inspired.

‘Dear Layla’: Letters for Sale From a Rock Music Love Trianglewww.nytimes.com Eric Clapton’s handwritten messages, being auctioned this week, shed light on how he wooed Pattie Boyd away from George Harrison and on the impassioned songs the affair inspired.

This looks like a fun day!

Yes it's like he's been forgotten by history. You never hear about him.

Billy Joel gets no respect because he’s not the right kind of cool.

Does anyone else watch Slow Horses? It's really an interesting show for anyone who likes the Three Days of the Condor/le Carre stuff... except the heroes really are bad at their job and keep getting themselves killed.

@sterlewine.bsky.social Nice Phair piece! FYI, if you care: www.facebook.com/groups/60837...

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My friend George Vargas has a tongue-in-cheek but still provocative piece in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Should there be a mandatory retirement for aging rock stars? www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainmen...?

Should there be a mandatory retirement age from concerts for over-the-hill rock stars?www.sandiegouniontribune.com Rock of ages: Jazz and blues artists are expected to get better as they age. But do veteran musicians who play rock, a genre created by young people for young people, face an uphill battle of diminish...

Here's some strong local reporting: A U.S. Representative from Tennessee, Andy Ogles, who, like Mike Johnson, doesn't seem to have a bank account, and who, like George Santos, gave his campaign a six-figure loan the source of which he seems unable to explain. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

He doesn't report having checking or savings. So where did Andy Ogles get $320,000 for his campaign?www.newschannel5.com As NewsChannel 5 Investigates followed the money involving Middle Tennessee's newest member of Congress, that investigation turned up even more questions about the Maury County Republican.

Adventures in Chat-GPT. What nine-letter word in English has only five different letters in it? ChatGPT An example of a nine-letter word in English with only five different letters is "tritium." In "tritium," the letters used are T, R, I, U, and M. there are only seven letters in "tritium"

Why is every single Rolling Stones album "their best record since Some Girls"? A critical inquiry! www.splicetoday.com/music/their-...

I think the Times is just fucking with us.

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A reminder, one year before 2024 election: -Political journalism, over all, is really really bad at forecasting what will happen in elections -So why the hell waste so much time / energy on this doomed enterprise? Use reportorial and narrative talents on what *is* happening.

If anyone cares, this is my ranking of every Beatles song for Vulture, newly updated to include "Now and Then." The bad news: It's a listicle. The worse news: It's 37,000 words long. www.vulture.com/article/best...

All 214 Beatles Songs, Ranked From Worst to Bestwww.vulture.com We had to count them all.

This story made me very happy. And what an ending. www.ptleader.com/stories/rikk...

News of 15 people being shot +in town+ is not the lead story in the Chicago Tribune — it's about another mass shooting a year ago. There's an update on last Wednesday's Maine mass shooting to the left ... but nothing about the 20 shot in Tampa last night. @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social

Images of daily papers in Israel, as the protests continue.

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