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Just Sayin’

Pro Tip for Catholic Charities PR Team: Maybe not host an adjudicated rapist credibly accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women if you’re trying to rise above your own church’s history of sexual abuse. – GeoffBrown82

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As If We Don’t Already Have Enough Existential Dread…

The system that moves water around the Earth is off balance for the first time in human history | CNN


Destructive land use, mismanagement and climate change are fueling a water disaster set to wreak havoc on economies and lives…
CNN|LAURA PADDISON

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“For the first time in human history, we are pushing the global water cycle out of balance,” said Johan Rockström, co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water and a report author. “Precipitation, the source of all freshwater, can no longer be relied upon.”

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Thrills and Chills

Enigma: Screen Before The Mirror (2000)

I’ve been a fan of Enigma since they arrived on the scene thirty four (!) years ago. As I’ve written before, one of my most profound memories of Engima was their debut disc playing in my headphones as I took the 24 Divisadero Bus to The Lion’s Pub on rainy San Francisco night a little over a month after the passing of my first partner in 1991.

Screen Before the Mirror, probably my favorite Enigma release, gives the astronomer geek in me chills from the very first track with the emotionless, disembodied female voice quietly reading off the astrometric statistics of Mars and those chills continue through the remainder of the album.

When I set out to rebuild my CD collection two years ago I really didn’t have a roadmap set out of what to replace. My inventory of what I’d owned was catastrophically out of date, and while it had all been ripped to iTunes, discerning which of those 2200 albums in there had come from my original CD collection, were ripped from vinyl, or had been aquired from “other sources” was impossible to sort out.

My original inventory was a good jumping off point, but as I’ve learned over the past twenty four months or so, there are a lot of discs that I didn’t realize were missing until I saw them on Amazon, eBay, or Discogs…or just out in the wild. So that’s where this latest haul comes from. With the exception of Sympathique and Bare, none of these were in my records, but I knew I’d owned them all at some point.

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