Peaches are a desperate and weird flex for Connecticut, and it needs to stop. Doesn’t Georgia already own the peach brand?

What a tune! It’s all in the rhythm - oriented towards resolution on the 4 and kind of a deceptively anacrusis-like 1. No wonder Monk loved it; it’s all disjointed.

Sock, shoe, sock, shoe? No Sock, sock, shoe, shoe? Still no Sock, sock, pants, shoes? Yes

How much of the water in the ocean, if any of it, is still the original water that was there when the ocean was first created? And if it is all or mostly different water is it still the same ocean?

I just realized that I’m part Pomeranian. #facts 🐾

Just read that Marlowe is more Brooklyn, and Shakespeare is more Manhattan.

Someone's behavior can cross a certain threshold in which they are given the opposite of the benefit of the doubt in contentious situations - the liability of the doubt. This should be officially obtained through courts and the person should be required to wear a badge.

Two things that have saved my day so far: 1. Sarah Vaughan singing Send in The Clowns 2. Bach’s Oboe Concerto in D minor

BIG NEWS: Mars is buying Cheez-Its, Eggos, and Pringles.

It's Bill Evans' birthday. Which means you should be gentle and warm and heartbreakingly beautiful with everyone you encounter for the rest of the day. Thank you.

“Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.” Dr. Kerr L. White

I almost forgot how awesome this band is. How did that happen? Taraf de Haïdouks - "Clejani Love Song" youtu.be/PzrxvpG2_Sk?si… via YouTube

Weird craving for chocolate-covered onion. Maybe I should just go to sleep.

Before you get started (on whatever it is), you should listen to some Mississippi John Hurt.

First ever documented use of the term "Founding Fathers" in 1916: “We ought to be as genuinely American today as when the founding fathers flung their immortal defiance in the face of old-world oppressions and dedicated a new republic to liberty and justice.” Warren G. Harding

And if you think that sentence is awkward, essayist H.L. Mencken agreed. He likened Pres. Harding's English to "a string of wet sponges" or "stale bean soup".

This is one of them. The other contender is probably Live at The Plugged Nickel.

Rare use of the word “chorus” as a verb (not noun) in the The Wall Street Journal. How thrilling!

What is the latest iteration of the group of friends in New York sitcom, like Seinfeld, Friends, Mindy Project, etc? Is there something new in this category?