It's Friday, though. Distracting thoughts are given greater latitude to develop and a wider tapestry than they would otherwise receive on other less tolerant week days. So you have permission to follow that last link and spend 31 seconds watching a commercial from 1983. If this were Monday through Thursday (or even Firday), maybe you wouldn't get that permission, so take advantage of Friday while he's here. The popular dude has stopped by for his regularly scheduled weekly visit, always much anticipated. Or, as James Lileks tweeted last night, "I hear Friday coming up the block, whistling a tune, kicking a can. The best day of the week."
Also, I hit a small patch of black ice this morning, as I tootled along the ridge by our house. I never saw anything other than what appeared to be dry pavement, but all of sudden the car did that feels-like-it's-folding-in-half quick-side, the DSC kicked in to right things almost instantly, and the little red "I just saved your arse" light blinked at me a few times in the instrument cluster. All this at the whopping speed of 25 MPH, no less. Still, I was suitably warned that things might not be as they appeared and took things even easier until I got to the well-worn arterials.
On the music front, what an amazingly good playlist shuffled up this morning! The tunes, the artists, and even the mix were all excellent. That the opening intensely-electric riffs of Ellipsis, from the legendary Pat Martino, were whipping up as I slipped into my parking spot put the cherry on top of the sunday.
The full playlist:
- Wilco: Poor Places
- The Shins: Your Algebra
- Kurt Elling: The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing
- Matthew Perryman: Breaking Out the Windows
- Big Head Todd & The Monsters: Cold Blooded
- Pat Martino: Ellipsis
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