Allan Holdsworth quartet

Music for a Sunday morning. One of my favorite guitarists: A. Holdsworth. Never plays a tune in his repertoire the same way.

Ten Years After - Good Morning Little School Girl - 8/4/1975 - Winterland

Who digs the late Alvin Lee of TYA these days? Unfortunately not many!

Led Zeppelin: No Quarter 5/24/1975 HD

I never get bored of this interplay between John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page! Ah to be a teenager in #EastBoston again!

[04] Jeff Beck Band - "A Day in the Life" HD

The masterful Jeff Beck interprets Lennon-McCartney so brilliantly.

When Harper's Magazine was interesting

Tom Wolfe "Stalking the Billion-footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel"

Bach would have been proud: Emerson punks out

"Is Britain becoming too diverse to sustain the mutual obligations behind a good society and the welfare state?"

Thoughts about post-Brexit Britain. The anxiety was noted back in 2004, by David Goodhart

The diversity, individualism and mobility that characterise developed economies – especially in the era of globalisation – mean that more of our lives is spent among strangers. Ever since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago, humans have been used to dealing with people from beyond their own extended kin groups. The difference now in a developed country like Britain is that we not only live among stranger citizens but we must share with them. We share public services and parts of our income in the welfare state, we share public spaces in towns and cities where we are squashed together on buses, trains and tubes, and we share in a democratic conversation – filtered by the media – about the collective choices we wish to make. All such acts of sharing are more smoothly and generously negotiated if we can take for granted a limited set of common values and assumptions. But as Britain becomes more diverse that common culture is being eroded.

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GE leaving is one thing; why to Boston, another

GE leaving is one thing; why to Boston, another

Baker signs public access law

https://t.co/woRkKej1F6 via @sharethis @Daviddarcangelo as a candidate for SecState in '14 called for more access to public records #MAPoli

— Frank Conte (@EBDotCom) June 4, 2016

David Bowie at his most mysterious.

Hat tip to PitchFork.