Month: November 2020
A good feeling to know
Poco:
Celebrate me home
I get a lot of email, especially from publicists doing their darndest to push their clients. I think this is the first time in 30 years I was actually intrigued enough to listen, and moved enough to write about it. Enjoy!
As the nation heads to another COVID-dictated quarantine, memories from the past year of shutdown loom large … and are captured in a surprisingly personal music video by singer/ songwriter Elizabeth Chan, who the New Yorker famously called “The Queen of Christmas.” The genre’s most prominent Asian-American artist has recorded and released nine holiday albums, but this year’s release, Celebrate Me Home, proved to be the most difficult. How to document a year of such hardship, sadness and uncertainty into a spirited, Christmas message? The result is a documentary style video for her first single, also called “Celebrate Me Home,” which Chan has filled with home videos, family photos, Zoom calls with her band and even footage of her giving birth during the pandemic. The song has already charted as one of the most played holiday songs of the Christmas season.
Happy Hour: Miles Davis – Generique…
Panhandle Slim… Art for Folk…
The mad king
Trump is having a brutal thanksgiving pic.twitter.com/2rUc2KjrmU
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) November 26, 2020
Transparency
At least we know he’ll get much better care than I did! Hope he’s back to normal soon…
Remember when trump went to Walter reed and no one told us why? https://t.co/xnuZODJzFs
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) November 29, 2020
An update from Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, who says the PEOTUS sustained a sprained ankle: “Initial X-rays are reassuring that there is no obvious fracture and he will be getting an additional CT for more detailed imaging.”
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 29, 2020
Pool report: Statement from Dr. Kevin O'Connor: "Follow-up CT scan confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot. It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 30, 2020
I wish I could say this was unbelievable
But it’s all too plausible and there’s a reason why everything thinks McKinsey is evil:
🚨A breathtaking report just dropped in @nytimes on how @McKinsey enabled the peddlers of the opioid crisis, one manslaughtery PowerPoint at a time.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) November 27, 2020
“This is the banality of evil, M.B.A. edition,” I told @PekingMike and @waltbogdanich for their story.https://t.co/gtJn7eZN9V
Comms team named
Biden has hired an all-female senior communications team:
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 29, 2020
Jennifer Psaki, a veteran Dem spokeswoman, will be White House press secretary.
Biden's press team will be led by Kate Bedingfield, a longtime Biden aide who served as his campaign comms director.https://t.co/RVhdZHIr6Q
Salting the ground
By installing Trumpers in positions where they can’t be fired, and naturally will work against any Biden agenda:
Despite losing, Trump is pressing ahead with his plan to remove civil service protections.
— Don "Big Chooch" Moynihan (@donmoyn) November 23, 2020
OMB is the first agency to list employees who can be fired by partisan actors:
*88%* of its career employees are being forced to become political appointees. https://t.co/0Z9mJKFLg0