Rufus Wainwright - "Not Dark Yet" (Dylan)

Richard Thompson - "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"

I was in Marjorie Crater Queen's district for a while yesterday afternoon...

…and saw lots of yard signs. I’m wondering whether they’re this years signs out early or if people are just too lazy to take down last year’s signs. Most of the signs displayed the phrase “Flood The Polls”.

How 'bout some fine art here in the GD forum.

Ellsworth Kelly: Yellow Relief Over Blue, 2012, oil on canvas

New book by Bob Dylan this fall: "The Philosophy of Modern Song"

According to a press release, Dylan began working on The Philosophy of Modern Song in 2010. The book contains over 60 essays that Dylan wrote about songs by artists including Stephen Foster, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, and Nina Simone. “[Dylan] analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal,” according to the press release. Dylan will narrate a portion of the audiobook, with a mix of other voices, too.

https://pitchfork.com/news/bob-dylan-announces-new-book-the-philosophy-of-modern-song/

Darol Anger , Sharon Gilchrist & Emy Phelps - "Cherokee Shuffle"

Mike Marshall & Bryan Sutton - "Cherokee Shuffle"

Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) does story time for 2nd graders.

Larkin Poe - "Start Me Up" (Rolling Stones cover)

Also at Stake in Ukraine: the Future of Two Orthodox Churches

KYIV, Ukraine — Standing in the cobblestone courtyard of a medieval monastery, with an icy wind whipping his black robes and artillery shells booming in the distance, Archbishop Yefrem is tormented by the war that is slowly engulfing his city.

But while Ukraine’s government is calling on every able-bodied male to defend the country against the Russian invasion, the archbishop sees things a little differently. Because Russians and Ukrainians are one people with one religion, he said, the Russian army is not an enemy. Believers in Ukraine should “pray for peace, not for victory.”

Launched by President Vladimir V. Putin to reassert Russian influence in the region, the war in Ukraine is also a contest for the future of the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches.

The Russian church — of which Archbishop Yefrem is a part — has made no secret of its desire to unite the branches under a single patriarch in Moscow, which would allow it to control the holiest sites of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world and millions of believers in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, for its part, has been slowly asserting itself under its own patriarch, reviving a separate and independent branch of Eastern Orthodoxy, after the independence of Ukraine in 1991.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/russia-ukraine-orthodox-church.html