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It is cause for celebration that the Jazz Is Dead label has released their eighteenth record, and it features the work of drummer Tony Allen, who passed away in 2020. The session that resulted in this album was recorded in 2018, and the fact that five years have passed, two since Allen's death, make you wonder if maybe they didn't think they had a solid record to cull from the sessions.

A few months ago, my co-worker, Laura*, invited a magician to our office Zoom party. He showed us a few tricks and we giggled and struggled to figure them out. At the end of his act, he answered some of our questions. “Do you believe in real magic?” Laura asked. The magician thought for a minute, then described an interview with Michael Jackson. In it, Jackson is asked how he wrote the song Billie Jean, but he can’t seem to come up with an answer.

The author of Uncultured recently released a reel on the cult glaze. The thousand-yard stare. It also goes by the Mormon stare. Dead-eyes. Daniella Mestyanek Young is a survivor of the Children of God cult. Today she’s a cult scholar and group behavior researcher, my fellow memoirist and friend. We frequently find overlap in our experiences, although as an evangelical fundie, I would’ve sworn I had nothing in common with the Children of God sex cult.

With the announcement yesterday that an Eagles–Steely Dan tour is upon us, my thoughts immediately went to the corporal connective tissue between the two groups: Timothy B. Schmit. Before he was anointed as the bass player of the Eagles in 1977, he had been a loyal soldier in the Steely Dan recording corps, serving for a few years as a go-to backing vocalist. If there is anyone who understands both the backstreets of Barrytown and the corridors of Hotel California, so to speak, it’s Timothy B.

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Twenty-five years ago today, Hackers was released. Audiences got to see a big-screen Hollywood look at cyberactivism, watch Crash and Burn go from rival hackers to a couple, hear a collection of fantastic electronic songs, and were introduced to the iconic words: “Hack the planet!” If you know me at all you know that I love Iain Softely's 1995 film. I missed it in theaters and only saw it for the first time a few years ago but it quickly became one of my favorites.

The other week a Chinese vessel was detained by Malaysian authorities off the coast of Johor, under suspicion of having plundered old WWII era shipwrecks in the region. HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, both of which sank in Malaysian waters in 1941, have had large sections of their bodies and armaments stolen in this way. The practice has been going on for years - these raiders targeting shipwrecks which are also effectively war graves - but this was one of the rare occasions when someone was seemingly caught in the act.