Monthly Archives: June 2025

Service Notice

June 20, 2025 – 6:54 pm

I’m sorry that it’s been rather quiet here for a bit; there’s certainly been plenty going on in the world, but I haven’t had anything interesting enough to say about any of it that I’ve been inclined to write anything down. (Please rest assured, though, that I am, as they say, “monitoring the situation”.) Mostly […]

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Good Vibrations – A Study

June 15, 2025 – 2:05 pm

A follow-up to yesterday’s item marking the death of Brian Wilson: Readers may know that I’m a member of a musical collective called the Shoal Survivors, a group of friends who get together a few times a year to make recordings, do performances, and just generally hang out and have fun. Last year as part […]

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Brian Wilson, 1942-2025

June 12, 2025 – 1:03 pm

No sooner had we learned of the death of Sly Stone than we heard another giant had fallen. This time it was Brian Wilson, the genius (and I don’t use that word very often) behind the Beach Boys. It would be hard to overstate Mr. Wilson’s influence, not just on the music of his era, […]

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Sly Stone, 1943-2025

June 10, 2025 – 7:32 pm

I am deeply saddened to hear of the death of the great Sly Stone, who left this world yesterday at the age of 82. If you know his music, and what it was to our generation, no words are necessary. If you don’t, no words will suffice.

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Radio Derb, 2004-2025

June 9, 2025 – 12:46 pm

Most of you out here on the civilized Right will be familiar with the author, columnist, and podcaster John Derbyshire, a British expat who celebrated his 80th birthday last week, and with whom I am happy to say I have had a slight personal acquaintance for many years (from a small monthly dinner club we […]

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Service Notice

June 5, 2025 – 10:24 pm

Away for a couple days of recording with the band. Back soon. P.S. Here’s a tweet from last November:

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Remembering Alison

June 5, 2025 – 10:22 pm

Yesterday, June 4th, would have been my mother’s 90th birthday. Miss you, Mom.

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How Time Flies!

June 1, 2025 – 6:58 pm

It’s June 1st, which means it’s the beginning of Pride Month. Again. As wonderful as that is, I can’t help thinking that it’s a little unfair that the other Deadly Sins don’t each get a month of their own as well. (Just think what Gluttony Month, for example, would do for the restaurant business.)

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