If you’ve been wondering where America’s pride is, we keep it in Hawai’i waiting for occasion to use it.
We’re honestly not sure what this means, but one guesses we should be proud at doing something better than has happened in almost 75 years.1
On Friday, the UK’s five-year bonds tumbled by the most since at least 1992 after the government rolled out a massive tax-cut plan that may only strengthen the Bank of England’s hand. Two-year US Treasuries are in the middle of the the longest losing streak since at least 1976, dropping for 12 straight days. Worldwide, Bank of America Corp. strategists said government bond markets are on course for the worst year since 1949, when Europe was rebuilding from the ruins of World War Two.
‘rah!
Brown Noise is like White Noise but with overtones of chocolate.2
As for whether brown noise is more effective for focus or sleep than any of the other types of this immersive noise, the answer is no, said Yamalis Diaz, an assistant professor in the department of child & adolescent psychiatry at N.Y.U. Langone Health, who specializes in A.D.H.D.
Emphasis ours. That’s from a maybe thousand-word piece with graphics.
Hawai’i ranks 51st among the best states for teachers. The top scorer, New York, scores 59.33 on an index incorporating salaries and amenities, like schools not built from construction trailers, and other factors. Hawai’i came in at 33.36.3
The weird thing is that we don’t have a lot of teacher strikes and when we have them, they don’t accomplish a lot. Teachers are flat-out abused here.
Did we mention this before? We can’t believe not, but in the event:
KURAYOSHI, Tottori -- A special exhibition on the theme of replica food, an artisanal form unique to Japan, is now being held in this western Japan city.
A total of 120 elaborate models of sukiyaki, ramen, "katsudon" (fried pork cutlet on a bowl of rice), and other dishes that look appetizing like the real things are on display at Kurayoshi Figure Museum in Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture, until March 13, 2022.4
Maybe we noticed the date?
The Funkadelics “Maggot Brain,” both the tune and the eponymous album, as a before-and-after moment in musical history.
The conversation that led the shy, sensitive guitarist Eddie Hazel to play the epic 10-minute soul cry of a solo on “Maggot Brain” is one of the most repeated stories in Funkadelic lore. “Yeah, I knew we needed one of those serious sad songs, so I told Eddie, ‘Imagine your mother died’ — and me and his mother, Grace, are real close — ‘and then you find out she ain’t really dead,’” Clinton recounted to Spin in 1985. Hazel recorded the solo in one take. Clinton removed most of the instruments from the mix and saturated it with echo, leaving a desolate, ethereal landscape. Clinton claims the professional engineers in the studio didn’t want their names on the record because of his wild mixing. “What you hear on the record is basically the second echo. The source is very rarely used on the record,” Clinton said.
The result is one of the most powerful and influential guitar solos ever etched into wax. Hazel died in 1992 at 42, but the “Maggot Brain” legacy has survived. Most likely finding kinship with its mix of underground weirdness, naked emotion and timeless rock bravado, many guitarists of the alternative rock boom have tried it live, including Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis, Wilco’s Nels Cline and the masked wheedler Buckethead.5
Fans of our powerhouse newsletter will recognize “Maggot Brain” as the lead tune on our ketamine therapy playlist. This is a good story about the album, the people whose music it built from, and the people who built from it. Worth checking out if you can.
That it, comrades.
(Musical contributor to this post was Big Star, “#1 Record.”)
Bloomberg on bond rates.
Too late to sample the replica food, sadly, but the memories linger in pictures.
The New York Times on music before and after “Maggot Brain.”