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Gracelessly aging* writer, copy editor and translator. Curator of #SaveOurSubs. Based on the Continong. ____ * No "e" after the "g", eh. Glad we've got that cleared up.
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In case anyone missed this yesterday, here is part 4/4 of my story of EMI/Abbey Road Studios. It includes the end of The Beatles, Fela Kuti making 2 albums in 2 days and the making of The Dark Side of the Moon. Retweet it if you enjoy. 🙏

Tie a Yellow Gibbon #ChangeOneLetterRuinASong

Disco's flirtation with lyric hooks in French - "Le Freak, c'est chic", "voulez vous coucher avec moi?".... What was that all about?

If you're not bound by an obligation, you're "exempt", but if you're excluded from a right or benefit, as here, you're "disqualified". #SaveOurSubs

Ninety-two years ago, Hitler became the German chancellor, with a democratic mandate, in the month of January. The Enabling Act, enabling the executive to dictate laws with no parliamentary oversight, was enacted in March. By April, Dachau was being built. Once in motion, this stuff moves fast.

I honestly don't care, as long as the eventual appointee's pronouns are he/hymn.

American Primeval on t' Flix: Utterly ace telly. #IncisiveReviews

The obvious question I haven't seen anyone asking yet is why a military helicopter was flying at night within 600 yards of the runway of a busy commercial airport. Surely no helicopters or any other small craft at all should be flying anywhere near where passenger jets are taking off and landing.

Career deadbeats gonna deadbeat.

Hojlund has been United's 9 for one and a half seasons. He's not going to get any better, is he. He's basically Antony with muscles. #FULMUN

See also "the La Brea Tar Pits" in California: "the the tar tar pits".