Hello, readers.
It’s today. Probably the most important day ever to someone out there. I hope it goes well for you, whoever you are.
Here are some things, more or less.
Thing one
Louis C.K. (philosopher comedian, playwright, man most likely to not believe in the honesty of your walking) appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week. Two of my favorite people talking about several of my favorite things including, but not limited to, the aforementioned dishonesty of walking.
Thing two
I don’t really understand the weather in London, and I’m okay with that. My understanding is that one isn’t supposed to understand such things.
Thing three
The Art Assignment is an amazing YouTube channel full of fantastic, and fantastically fast, rundowns of various movements, persons, and modes of art. It’s like that one bit in that one movie where they attempted to run through the Louvre in record time. Except, less with the black and white.
Here’s an example of one of their ‘The Case For…” videos.
Thing four
I’m editing this one thing for Storyological, and it is reminding me how I want everything to tell a story. I’m narratively selfish.
Thing five
This thing in The Wall Street Journal called “Twilight of the Rock Gods” (paywall).
The oldest of America’s 75 million baby boomers started turning 70 in 2016. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau, boomers are people born between 1946 and 1964). In about 20 years, all the boomers will have reached 70. So, the number of celebrity deaths last year wasn’t exceptional, according to a study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, though the number of “mega famous” celebrity deaths was. Because of their penchant for hard living, rocker deaths are likely to stay consistently high. “The musicians are ahead of their audience, if you will, on the death curve,” says demographer Kenneth Johnson at the University of New Hampshire.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is already scrambling to keep up. “We play their music all day long, lower our flag, and hang their image in a place of honor for a year. And we have a special exhibition,” President Greg Harris says. “But the exhibitions are getting kind of crowded.” Almost 60% of the Rock Hall’s more than 800 inductees are still living, meaning the biggest wave of the boomer musician deaths has yet to come.
I know it’s only rock’n’roll. But. There you go. Proof positive. Yesterday’s gone. Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.
Because death.
Happy Thursday, readers.
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p.s. I apologize for the lack of footnotes.
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