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George Wallace
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An old lawyer in love with new music, among other things. Snappy patter & wordplay a subspecialty. Not one of those George Wallaces you may have heard of. Occasional longer outbursts via georgewallace.substack.com. Mostly harmless. Neither mod nor rocker.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · Nov 18
[Epigraph to John Gardner's "The Sunlight Dialogues" (1972)] [Pinned tweet @ Twitter since 2016; imported to the butterfly pavilion 2024]
Photo of the epigraph to John Gardner's novel The Sunlight Dialogues (1972): "The earth in its devotion carries all things, good and evil, without exception." from the I Ching
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 11h
The Republican Party was at one time objectively anti- jackbooted thugs.
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Elián González, Trump, and What Happened to “True Conservatism”
Toward a quantum theory of politics.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 11h
Speaking of Jimmy Webb songs: this album is a mere $7 on Bandcamp and the renditions of "Moon/Mistress" and "Wichita Lineman" will repay that investment in no time.
johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...
Songs I Like A Lot, by John Hollenbeck
8 track album
johnhollenbeck.bandcamp.com
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 12h
Whatever the stressors of the day, Kenny Wheeler's Gnu High (1975) has their number, half a century on.
tidal.com/browse/album...
Kenny Wheeler, Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette - Gnu High
Listen to Gnu High on TIDAL
tidal.com
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 12h
I went looking for that article because I vividly recall learning from it for the first time that overdosing on Tylenol - which, in those days, was very much the 'kind and gentle' alternative to aspirin - was pretty damned ghastly, particularly if it didn't kill you outright. NYT reminded me today.
Taking Too Much Tylenol Has Proven Risks. Trump Didn’t Talk About Those.
www.nytimes.com
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 12h
It's charming [not actually the right word] that if you search for the Summer 1981 CoEvolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Catalog article "How Not to Commit Suicide" (which gives particulars on what's most awful in each readily available method) Google AI will direct you to suicide prevention resources.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 1d
My Bandcamp collection includes at least 6 different versions of "Stay On It." Derive what you will from that.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 1d
Appropriate musical accompaniment to a No Kings protest.
Julius Eastman: "Stay On It"
sopercussion.bandcamp.com/album/stay-o...
Stay On It, by Sō Percussion, MEDIAQUEER, Adam Tendler, Alex Sopp, Beth Meyers, Shelley Washington, Grey Mcmurray
1 track album
sopercussion.bandcamp.com
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 1d
The Pasadena No Kings event is right 'round the corner from my office, where I will be working on Saturday anyway. I am tempted to attend, certainly, and I am thinking that this might be the proper occasion to sport my Alex Sopp-designed Julius Eastman shirt for the first time.
A black t-shirt, featuring an illustration by musician/artist Alex Sopp of the late composer Julius Eastman. It is supremely cool.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 2d
In a better world, "JD Vance, J.D." would be the title of a spoof legal drama in the style of Airplane!/Police Squad/Naked Gun.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 4d
Radka Toneff & Steve Dobrogosz - Fairytales (1982)
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
Had not realized until tonight that this treasure is available on Bandcamp.

radkatoneffstevedobrogosz.bandcamp.com/track/the-mo...
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (Remaster 2022), by Radka Toneff & Steve Dobrogosz
from the album Fairytales (Remaster 2022)
radkatoneffstevedobrogosz.bandcamp.com
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 7d
Orgasm addicts, the lot of them.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 8d
MAGA: the party of low-end ordure.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 8d
Waiting for Thiebaud
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 8d
They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod
But this ain't what I signed up for in the National Guard!

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Goon Squad (Live At Hollywood High, 1978)
YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 8d
Aldous Huxley - BRAVE NEW WORLD
[feat. @vurnt22.bsky.social]
Brave New World, by Vernon Reid
from the album Hoodoo Telemetry
vernonreid.bandcamp.com
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 8d
"Heterodoxy" is a portmanteau word for the condition of being both a hetæra and a doxy.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 8d
I miss Abraham Lincoln.
We all should.
Now that's what I call a Republican.
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Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social · 8d
100 years ago today, October 6, 1925:

The Lincoln Exedra, a memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, was dedicated by the Lincoln Society in Peekskill, New York. The monument on South Street overlooks the spot where Lincoln stopped and spoke from aboard his Inaugural Train on February 19, 1861.
The land along South Street on which the Lincoln Exedra sits was donated to the Lincoln Society in Peekskill by its former president John W. Smith in 1921. The memorial was designed by architect Gilbert Hart Anderson, a lifelong Peekskill resident. Antonio S. Renza, president of the Peekskill Construction Company, built the foundation with granite from the local Mohegan Quarry. The Exedra is owned today by the City of Peekskill. (Andy Bass photo) A view looking west from South Street in Peekskill shows the Lincoln Exedra. Visible in the background below behind the flagpole are the Hudson River and the Lincoln Depot Museum (red brick building) on South Water Street. The 19th century building was the spot where Lincoln spoke from aboard his Inaugural Train on February 19, 1861. (Andy Bass photo) The centerpiece of the Lincoln Exedra is a bronze tablet created by Tiffany Studios of New York City. It features a bas relief profile portrait of Lincoln above an inscription about the memorial. (Andy Bass photo) A closeup view of the bas relief profile portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the bronze tablet of the Lincoln Exedra on South Water Street in Peekskill, New York. (Andy Bass photo)
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 8d
Canadian provocateurs!/Provocateurs Canadiens!
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 10d
That nice Mr. Trump fellow from that television show that made us smile certainly has fallen among low companions.
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 10d
For your pleasure
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 10d
Brian Eno and John Cale's album Wrong Way Up was released on October 5, 1990
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 10d
Which member of the Microsoft brain trust was it who thought it was clever to use Control+S to mean "Save" in Word, and also to use Control+S to mean "Send" when drafting an email message in Outlook?
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Larry L. @larry-l.bsky.social · 11d
Thinking of a time in history when a civilian population was used to test battlespace tactics and weapons by their president
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 11d
On the ambient end, here's a Bill Nelson obscurity: a collaboration with Fila Brazilia and, good lord, none other than Harold Budd.

filabraz.bandcamp.com/album/three-...
Three White Roses & A Budd, by Harold Budd, Bill Nelson & Fila Brazillia
4 track album
filabraz.bandcamp.com
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 11d
Do they Sell England there?
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George Wallace @wallacegeo.bsky.social · 11d
With the bonus tracks, this release covers even more of Mr. Nelson's range of interests than I'd thought. Recommended and satisfying.
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