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This is Medium Rotation, a newsletter about the bands we used to play on my college radio station, 88.3 WSBU-FM, St. Bonaventure. Today, we’re looking back at Seattle-via-New York indie-rock band Say Hi, who are still making music. Sometimes a song defines a movie or TV scene for everyone who watches it, like the extended “Layla” coda in Goodfellas. But sometimes a song only defines that scene for you. I like those moments because they feel like secrets that make sense entirely in my own head.

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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. —John 15:13 So many acquaintances; so few friends. Has such a sentence ever rung more true than in our era? For years now, a good number of us have had several hundred “friends” on social media. Being lightly acquainted is no evil thing, of course, but in the same era when friendship is seemingly ubiquitous, it is strangely hard to find true friends.

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“Olivia was having to be the waitress, which turned her into a hummingbird of naked nerve endings — she spilled everything. It made you hysterical to watch her, so I volunteered to pour wine and the next thing you knew I was being a waitress for three months for free. I loved it more than any… ncG1vNJzZmirk5a%2Fuq%2FOqKOsmZScvLCwwbKcZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cL%2FCmqmyZZOkvK150pqbZp%2BfpLGjxcRmams%3D

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” Elizabeth Gilbert I’ve been thinking about marriage lately and the ways it can break us or shape us, depending on the partner we choose. How long-term partnerships can trigger and deepen our wounds or allow us to examine our pasts and heal ourselves. How they can encourage us to double down on the most negative parts of our personalities or allow us to trust enough to become our best selves.

I got into an interesting conversation this morning about the Schiaparelli lion dress that got me thinking about the tacit properties of the current cultural climate. On one hand, the culture has been advancing a collective agenda to challenge the slopes of the status quo by advocating for compassion. How this compassion plays out depends on the cause, … ncG1vNJzZmiklZa7pb7AppqooJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqybmJ6usa3RnqOloaNiuaq7zWabq52jqA%3D%3D

On the morning of Monday, January 29th 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer began shooting her rifle at students waiting to enter Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. She ultimately killed the school’s principal, a custodian, and wounded eight children and a police officer. She then barricaded herself in her home. When a reporter reached her on the phone during the standoff and asked her why she’d done it she responded, “I don’t like Mondays, this livens up the day.

Can you imagine a teacher putting this image up on the projector and then teaching... english?   Well, at some schools (I suspect more than we’d like to admit), it’s happening, with or without administrator approval. And unfortunately, I think the root can be found on the slippery slope that started when “climate change” started being taught in schools without any discussion of “where energy comes from.” How many schools discussed why a Tesla burned for 4 hours after a crash, took 32,000 gallons of water to put out, was charged with 56% natural gas (that being the make of of the Texas grid), and why batteries in electric cars can be risks to bridges and highways?