Lit City Blues

So, I did snag this on vinyl (finally), and my original plan was to listen to it on vinyl and then report back, but I put it on and immediately realized that it was time for new needles again, so I pivoted to Ye Olde Spotify (Web Browser) for the listen. (Needles have been ordered-- or possibly located, because I swear every time I get needles, I put them somewhere and always, without fail, forget where I put them.) Spotify says this is an hour and seven minutes, which doesn't seem right to me somehow. This album has eighteen tracks on it and sweeps you away in all the good ways, so that while it's not interminable, it doesn't drag, and it's not boring; it does, in fact, feel far longer than an hour and seven minutes. An original entry on the Albums2010 run, my original review appeared a couple of blogs ago, all the way back in December of 2010.  I've always been weirdly ambivalent about The Rolling Stones, and I'm honestly not sure why. I'll listen to them...

This might wind up aging like milk, but I think I'm going to say it anyway: Calm down about the gerrymandering thing . Look, I'm not going to say that it's not bad, okay. It's bad. It's a parade of bad. It's another shower of shit in a rain showerhead of shit we've all been dealing with in this country for decades-- but... (and this is a big-ass but) we can't possibly predict what the ramifications are ultimately going to be. The problem with gerrymandering is that you can only do so much of it before it has the very real potential to backfire on you. Texas is going to be fascinating to watch this year, because its gerrymander is based on the 2024 election results and assumes that every electoral result after that would mirror those. Given, you know, all of this (gestures broadly to the world at large), that's not a bet I would have made, but I'm not the Texas GOP. Also, I do expect you're going to see more state GOPs taking a pass on furthe...