Mitch Friedfeld
@MitchFriedfeld
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Concerned citizen, recovering government drone. I tweet on classical music, classic rock, guitar, the arts, politics. Mutual follow @mitchfriedfeld.bsky.social
Santa Monica, CA
Joined November 2010
Here's another: "You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?” Seen on a billboard above a club in Venice, CA.
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Check out these excellent quotations by Thelonious Monk:
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Discover Thelonious Monk famous and rare quotes. Share Thelonious Monk quotations about jazz, music and geniuses. "The loudest noise in the world is silence."
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Outstanding, thanks for posting.
The small Norwegian village of Skjolden (pop: 238) looks absolutely unremarkable on a map. Little more than a small settlement in inland Norway, surrounded by pretty mountains. However, and remarkably, Skjolden is actually a seaside village. 1/n
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Clever.
The trouble with Hegseth is that he thinks he's George C. Scott in Patton, but in reality comes across like George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove.
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AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability everywhere he goes. And every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike or a revelation in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he
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"In this page-turning thriller, concert pianist Riley Forte is recruited by a covert security firm and sent undercover to a secret spy school in Bavaria." Oh brother.
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“I’ll explain the rest in two words.” #Dostoevsky doesn’t do *anything* in two words.
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The depth of knowledge displayed by translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky simply in the footnotes has me agape in admiration.
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Ouch.
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At this point, I’m remaining on Twitter for music and guitar tweets, and photographs of Norway. Politics and news are far down the list.
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And now for something completely different: a jazz concert at the Santa Monica Elks lodge. Warmups sound credible, here’s hoping.
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Translator’s note: “It [Karamazov] does have moments of joy, but they are only moments; the rest is greed, lust, squalor, unredeemed suffering, and a sometimes terrifying darkness.” Now you’re talking.
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More people need to talk like this.
.@JamesTalarico: Can you name a school where it has been confirmed that students are using litter boxes? Republican: W-well… This bill prevents that from happening Talarico: Can you name a school where that’s happening? Republican: N-no I cannot Talarico: I find it
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Okay, enough of police procedurals and other fluff. Time to get serious (second time through, but first in about 15 years).
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Promises made, promises kept.
Trump warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d have higher prices and a government-run economy at home and new wars abroad, and I voted for Harris and that’s exactly what we got.
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I don’t know who this guy is, but this deserves reposting.
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Do authors keep lists of weird words they *must* use? Here are a few I’ve come across lately: phatic, soixante-huitards, inquorate, gallimaufry, murine, craquelure, ormolu, fetor, minatory, menhir, pleonasm, buxological, embonpoint, clafouti, nacoluthon, catachresis, enthymeme.
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