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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Speaking of Bjorn Ulvaeus, he is interviewed in the article "The Next Scene" by John Seabrook in this week's issue. If you want to get a sweeping idea of what the music industry has been through in the last 30 years or so, it's worth spending your time on this longish article about Lucian Grange, head of Universal Music Group. What a plum assignment! Seabrook gets to interview everyone from Bono to Edgar Bronfman.
Front-Ranger:
I'm still not finished with the February 5 issue, it was so meaty. Today I read about the shenanigans in upper Vermont where a misguided developer was used by a con-man to funnel hundreds of millions from foreign investors into factories, ski areas, boutique hotels, and residential developments. Today it's a hot destination, but the developer and con-man have served time.
Now, I'm starting the wildfire article by Elizabeth Kolbert. Mind-boggling how much territory has been lost to fire in Canada. :'(
Jeff Wrangler:
I've fallen way behind again. I'm still working through the woman in the cave. I may not finish it. It's really not engaging me.
Jeff Wrangler:
I didn't finish the article about the cave woman.
I had two issues with me when I was just at my dad's for a week, and I just wasn't motivated to read either of them. :(
I've read Elizabeth Colbert.
Friends, I believe we are living in the End Times.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 11, 2024, 04:57:26 pm ---I didn't finish the article about the cave woman.
--- End quote ---
Good call. It's tough to abandon an article you've spent time on, but if it's not engaging you there are all kinds of other things you could read that would.
--- Quote ---Friends, I believe we are living in the End Times.
--- End quote ---
If this extends beyond the religious sense, I fear you might be right. According to my phone, high temperature in the next 10 days will only once dip below 30 and only three times dip below freezing. In Minneapolis. In February. There's no snow on the ground, and only 7" have fallen all winter. I've heard of Christmases here that weren't white, but never whole winters that weren't.
Last winter it was 90", but that's weird, too. Recent years have broken all kinds of weather records.
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