Michael Thornton

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

Marriage is a force multiplier.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

I don’t have much to add to the talk about Dolly Parton, except to mention the great 1981 cover of Jolene by the Rhode Island punk-country band Rubber Rodeo, with these atmospheric washes of sound that hit like waves of disquiet and dread.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

@FYesterdays I’ll go with Catherine Howard.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

Ran into this excellent documentary on Kanopy.

[Donne Foundation @Donne_UK]

#DonneRecommends Women Composers, a film by Kyra Steckeweh and Tim van Beveren. 🎬 When the pianist Kyra realized that her repertoire was almost exclusively composed by men, she began searching for pieces written by female composers.
Read more: https://t.co/J3umjTBqh2 #DonneUK

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

I tried to ask Gemini AI a non-loaded, non-partisan question about ballot mechanics yesterday and it would only give an unresponsive deflection. @JoeSquawk on @CNBC this morning mentioned he ran into the same thing with several AIs. We just can’t have nice things.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

Yesterday it seemed like being in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, but now I’m thinking it’s more like “The Stepford Wives”.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

After a negligent fellow traveler took my bag from the carousel and got away before I could stop her, Sandi at the @JetBlue baggage office at the Miami airport was tenacious in tracking down the bag and getting it returned in good time. Big thank you to Sandi!

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

RIP Robbie Robertson. Sounds like the Lennon/McCartney split had nothing on The Band’s: Oh, once were brothers/Brothers no more/We lost our connection/After the war/There'll be no revival/There'll be no encore/Once were brothers/Brothers no more

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

@TyBurr Nice piece in the “Watch List” today about Tom Verlaine. He was my guy too.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

@DrDavidVernon Grieg’s piano music — complete set by Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

@StevenIsserlis The bonus disc to the 1963 Beethoven #5 — I suspect I’m not the only 12-year-old for whom this was a gateway drug.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

After some research, it appeared that I was a day behind my wife (and the rest of the world). Had to reinstall Chrome to get back in sync. Lost my statistics, though.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

Noticed this too today. This is not right!

[Alyshia @thebaglelady]

What’s going on with #Wordle, @nytimes? For more than a week, my husband and I have had different words.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

@BostonGlobe's idea of customer service, as stated in a mailing this week: We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your subscription or product for any reason, with or without notice and without further obligation. You will not be entitled to a refund in these circumstances.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

Sure, some people are prepared for nuclear fallout or if the power grid goes down. Me, I’m prepared for somebody coming by who needs continuous-feed paper for a dot-matrix printer.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

@TerryTeachout1 “Invaders from Mars” (1953), on TV in the 60’s.

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

Superb version of Dowland's "Come Again, sweet love doth now invite" by Julie Hoeltzel, with Austin Hoeltzel on guitar.

https://t.co/KSQJUUfcqy

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

@CheerLights oldlace

[Michael Thornton @thourny]

Check out @kcbaskin's article in @BostonGlobe about my cousin-in-law's wine bar in Littleton:

https://t.co/snDA4HvaPs

#salutwinebar #littletonma