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The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul, Burkhard Bilger writes.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/the-secret-sound-of-stax
Steve Cropper has died. Safe travels to The Colonel. You can hear the STAX Songwriter Demos “Written in their Soul” pretty much anywhere music comes out.
“Sometimes it is cheaper to pay the fines,”
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
Executive summary: items ring up higher than the shelf price, like a $5 pizza rings up at $7.65. If you don’t notice and challenge every single item (right, when you’re running late and there’s a line of people behind you), you’re gonna pay it.
Even though they’re endangered, there’s a lot we don’t know about eels. Some scientists are trying to change that in the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers.
— Read on www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/american-eels/
I found this article playing my new favorite game: “How do…”?
You enter that phrase into a search engine and see what completions come up.
slate.com/technology/2025/11/driving-drowsy-tired-dangerous.html
That’s it. That’s the whole thing. They did quote someone from AAA, which tells you everything you need to know
Classic winter-for-summer beverage here in Make It Work Land
(for when you just got home from Winn Dixie and you didn’t buy tomato juice)
8 oz GV tomato sauce
1 can Modelo especial
8 oz filtered tap water
Mix tomato sauce and filtered tap water. Pour half the homemade tomato juice into a pint glass. Add as much of the beer as will fit. Drink a little so more will fit. That’s good.
You can further add ice, hot sauce, grated horseradish, or sambal oelek if you’re fancy.
Making a Simple Irish Flute | Doug Tipple’s Irish Flutes
— Read on tippleflutes.com/making-a-simple-irish-flute/
This is what the internet is *for*
(It’s a procedure for making a keyless and maybe one-piece (no separate head piece) Irish for out of basic plumbing pvc)
Update here’s an Instructable with more paragraph breaks and helpful photos for those who can’t visualize handwork from a wall of text (me haha)
Oh well this too (DIY musical instruments — extremely long pdf)
After his public feud with the former Harvard president, West sees irony in Summers’ downfall.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/larry-summers-cornel-west-harvard-scandal-00663517
Haha yep
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