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Rumors are getting louder. BLOOMBERG REPORTS ARM MACS COMING NEXT YEAR https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/23/bloomberg-arm-macs

Anyone remember who said The Eagles effectively birthed the LA punk scene? It gave a lot of people something to hate. Google is coming up empty.

Last of my Mac lovefest. The songs are so good even mediocre bands and cheesy videos can't get in their way.

I loved listening to so many of the songs of those two albums before I even knew the albums existed. And when I tried years later to avoid the nostalgia of my childhood music, Fleetwood Mac always got an exception. I'm not sure if pop music can become timeless, but if Pet Sounds, Blue, etc. does, these aren't far behind in my book.

First two episodes of Mrs. America on Hulu. Pretty interesting POV and really good overall.

Peter Beard, a New York photographer, artist and naturalist to whom the word “wild” was roundly applied, both for his death-defying photographs of African wildlife and for his own much-publicized days — decades, really — as an amorous, bibulous, pharmaceutically inclined man about town, was found dead in the woods on Sunday, almost three weeks after he disappeared from his home in Montauk on the East End of Long Island. He was 82. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/arts/peter-beard-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare His well-documented personal life—Beard’s image should probably reside in the dictionary next to the word “dashing” (and perhaps also near “shambolic”)—likely spelled the end of a number of marriages, including some of his own. (Beard was married to Mary "Minnie" Cushing and, later, the model Cheryl Tiegs before marrying Nejma Khanum, the daughter of an African diplomat, in 1986; she and Beard have a daughter, Zara.) He and Truman Capote traipsed across America with the Rolling Stones on their Exile On Main Streettour in 1972; he was close with Jacqueline Onassis and generations of Kennedys (and had a long relationship with Onassis’s sister Lee Radziwill) and was a fixture at Studio 54. In addition to solo shows at the International Center of Photography in New York and the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, among others, he often bartered his work to pay bar tabs around Montauk and to settle bets with friends. https://www.vogue.com/article/peter-beard-tribute-remembering-the-wildlife-and-fashion-photographer/amp

Makes sense. And if you’re satisfied and stop there, I guess there’s no second, so no first. Showed Melissa the Nomos Glashütte Club Campus neomatik and she fell in love. Showed her the price and the fling was short-lived.

Thanks much all four of you. The suggestions are definitely along my preferred path. IWC came into play when researching Flieger originals and they definitely have some nice models and a Max Bill would have already been ordered if the model I liked had sapphire crystal (the Form A may still). Nomos' are beautiful. Oris wasn't considered, but will now. I was even looking at watches popular with nurses (quickly taking pulse). I know how ridiculous it sounds to be discussing historical designs like Flieger or Bauhaus to say the following... but, I suspect the big driving force is I don't care enough about horological history to give it much weight if it comes in conflict against modern, information Design. Course that's an if. Probably why I drift towards pilot watches. Maybe why I like some newish microbrands over many standards. But I'd take a balanced, bold font over a historically accurate choice. Glance. Time. Thus not the position of the moon or how long I've been underwater or recording laps around the racetrack. So yeah, not complicated. And like all things I'm just talking about my preferences for this choice. Plenty of watches I can admire through the lens of timekeeping history or for other uses or as part of a collection. So further answering the above questions. I'd like it to last and an automatic. Would like to keep it near or under $1K new or used (so many nice choices 3x and above). Last analog watch was 44mm and I thought much too big, so around 40mm give and take on other priorities. White or black dial with opposite for indicators. A splash of color would be fine properly applied. Anything with three or more fonts on its face should probably be eliminated, but surprise me. I'm a sucker for a display back (it doesn't get in the way of reading time), but not essential. Generally like a sweeping second hand so appropriate movement. I'll probably replace any strap with a black rubber/silicone one for practical purposes. And directly relating to all the above, this is that hunt for single everyday watch, not part of a collection, with one big caveat - it will be worn with and without an Apple Watch on the other wrist. This for time. Apple Watch for other data (calendaring, maps, messages, etc.). So a single everyday watch as sometimes part of two everyday watches. I don't know how common this is, but wanted to mention. Finally, I've seen here and elsewhere people tend to move through Fliegers, Max Bills, etc. The various models seem to be a lot of peoples first "serious watches." Part of this could be collection building, but any comments on that? Man, thanks much for the time you've already spent thinking about my earlier post and other choices to consider. Any other comments/suggestions are also appreciated.

The Ancient Mariner Big Read https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/1 More info at... All alone online: Iggy Pop and Jeremy Irons lead mass Ancient Mariner reading https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/18/all-alone-online-iggy-pop-and-jeremy-irons-lead-mass-ancient-mariner-reading?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Now early morning covers of Prine

Thanks! That is a handsome model with similar face weight. Usually I prefer numerals for quick orientation, but the date and especially logo works there for that. Bookmarked.

More Prine

Been contemplating an automatic with legibility goals. No complications, etc. After debating over several models (Bell & Ross, Lum-Tec Combat, etc.) I may have settled on a Flieger, probably an updated, streamlined Stowa Flieger Verus 40 (over a Stowa Classic). Any words of advice (I know a few members, including Mike, had Stowas previously, and they were last discussed here almost a decade ago) or alternatives I should consider? If there’s one trend I noticed it’s people seem to cycle through them, but that may be simply be a watch/gear thing. Or it could be a simple watch gets boring quick. Obviously the design has been around a year or two. I’m not a watch guy and a bit scared of being sucked in, but I also have design issues with nearly all watches, which is a safety. Anyway, everyone in this thread is more experienced than I, so open to all suggestions, including if you’re further down whatever path this is. Thanks in advance.

Continuing the Nuggets from the Moon digestion. Esmé and I are dancing to Crazy People (1958) by Somethin' Smith and the Redheads.

I'm not sure anyone is asking anyone to post or not post content for any practical reason. Nor preventing anyone from counter asking occasionally why?

Maybe it’s time for an additional party, but how often has any party ran an incredible candidate? It’s always a comparative decision. I’d love another FDR or Lincoln. Others Eisenhower or Reagan. They’re all far from perfection. While there would likely be other improvements with a contending third or fourth party, that unlikely would be one of them. And false equalizations are the worse, juvenile lie. Hell, parties count on the masses spreading the blame around, instead of targeting the cause. I’m all for finding humor everywhere, but false equalizations and generic generalizations, coupled with distant, indifferent mocking, leads exactly where? I mean what a ridiculous, cowardly choice Binden is? Christ, I want to stop calling myself a Democratic over it. I don’t think he’s a disaster, but even if he was, all disasters aren’t remotely equal. Do we really have the luxury of pretending so?

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Lee Konitz, Jazz Saxophonist Who Blazed His Own Trail, Dies at 92 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/arts/music/lee-konitz-dead-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/15/835634362/lee-konitz-prolific-and-influential-jazz-saxophonist-has-died-at-92

Hope it's a great one

Yea! An old co-worker finally solved the dreaded (at least for anyone with long fingers) Touch Bar. https://shauninman.com/archive/2020/04/12/bar_none

The New York Times just created a Those We’ve Lost to the Coronavirus obit section.

Short answer: Found out how weak I am. Long answer: Carried the MA770 concrete chassis speaker into a FedEx office two towns over because parking was better. Still I don’t believe I’ve ever hated handicap parking before. Yesterday drove around an empty Great America parking lot with Esmé as we talked about riding the still roller coasters in the future.

On the theme, this is a nice little listen. John Prine & Bill Murray Discuss Their Early Days Of Music, Comedy & More Bonus