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Gawd I Needed This…And I Didn’t Even Know It

I consider myself neither a Streisand queen nor a Broadway queen, but goddamn, I put this on today—after not hearing it for 20 years or more—and it was like diving into a cool, clear, stream.

I won’t say that I have specific memories attached to this album, but rather more of a feeling; a Joie de vivre from the 80s.

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It’s a Beautiful Thing







Nazi Monuments Being Destroyed At the End of World War II.

And a note to confederates: these monuments weren’t kept as “history.” These monuments celebrated horrible things and we BLEW THEM UP.

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“It Just Works”

Another Apple rant. Quelle surprise.

I ran across a post today that was pointing out it’s been 22 years since Madonna released Ray of Light (something I noted here last month.) and this made me realize I hadn’t heard the album in quite some time, so I went to fire it up in iTunes. It wasn’t there.

This was odd because I know I’d purchased the album years ago and if I wasn’t mistaken I’d even transferred it to my phone about six months ago. I checked my phone, and it was conspicuously absent as well. I looked up my purchases so I could download it again, thinking that perhaps I’d inadvertently deleted it from iTunes.

Sure enough, it was showing “purchased,” but there was no option to download it again. After about a half hour of sleuthing, I discovered that it—and in fact MY EVERY PURCHASE I EVER MADE THROUGH ITUNES—was now located in “hidden” purchases!

It didn’t seem that I was missing music from the library, and several of the “hidden” purchases played just fine, but nevertheless I started manually unhiding all the purchases, ONE BY ONE—because Apple—of course there was no option to unhide everything all at once. (Actually there was a button to “unhide all,” but once again—because Apple—clicking on it didn’t do a damned thing.) I gave up after restoring the two missing Madonna albums that were actually gone from my library and about a couple dozen other items, because I realized this is not how I intended to spend the rest of my afternoon.

After the two missing Madonna albums were visible again, I was able to download them.

What’s weird is that it looked like the rest of my purchased music was still in my library…

IT JUST WORKS. IT JUST WORKS. IT JUST WORKS, GODDAMNIT. YOU’RE JUST USING IT WRONG!

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The Mandalorian

Once again I’m late to the party.

Being the STAR WARS fan that I am, it wasn’t like I didn’t want to see The Mandalorian. I did. But much like my situation with Star Trek: Discovery, I didn’t want to see it enough to pay for a monthly subscription. But Verizon once again came through, and with a free one-year subscription, it’s giving me the opportunity to catch up.

I’m only five episodes in, but it’s ticking all the boxes and OH. MY. GOD. This is what the last six Star Wars movies should have been. Now I understand why people have been raving about it.