Lyle Mays died in February, just before things started getting weird. (Other causes)

An internet radio station happened to play this from one of his solo albums the other day. It's a nice piece… cleaves neatly in two, with a rock part and a tender part, kind of like Layla.

I'd forgotten how strong his work was apart from the Pat Metheny Group. So much of their strength seems to have come from his eager embrace of dramatic arrangement.

I see that I missed out on the Branch Covidians yesterday.

Stolen from a quarantine diary:

Day 10 – Struck up a conversation with a Spider today. Seems nice. He’s a Web Designer.

Day 11 – Isolation is hard. I swear my fridge just said, “What the hell do you want now?”

Day 12 – I realized why dogs get so excited about something moving outside, going for walks or car rides. I think I just barked at a squirrel.

Day 13 – If you keep a glass of wine in each hand, you can’t accidently touch your face.

Col. Schlichter regarding "is it time for a military coup?":

Yeah bitch, you take point.

https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1254532041569218562?s=20

Iowahawk:

yOu DiG a hOLe, yoU pUt A sEeD iN, yOu PuT diRt oN tOP, aDD wAtEr, uP cOMes tHe cOrN

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1254733928042299392

When your daughter finally gets used to life in college:

https://twitter.com/ChuckeEChaves/status/1254562951522136067

That seems a little...extreme.

Pt. 1: They had $1B+ to solve vagrancy in LA. Instead of building in an area providing safety for all, they squandered our tax $. Now, they will SNEAK vagrant housing into all of our beautiful neighborhoods under the guise of a “crisis.” The LA we knew is history.

https://twitter.com/LAVagrants/status/1254643675600052232

“Because Georgia’s annotations are authored by an arm of the legislature in the course of its legislative duties,” he wrote, “the government edicts doctrine puts them outside the reach of copyright protection.”

The “animating principle” behind the doctrine, the chief justice wrote, “is that no one can own the law.”

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/document/XJRCAN0000000

Tyson Foods chairman warns that ‘the food supply chain is breaking’: In recent weeks, the poultry producer has temporarily suspended operations at plants across the country.

This needs immediate attention, but it also calls into question the wisdom of having a relatively small number of huge processing plants staffed by cheap, often illegal, immigrant labor.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/368743/

Breaking News: sources tell me @GenFlynn will be completely exonerated this week. It was a total fraud. A Set up. More tomorrow

https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1254518803888734217

Mayor Bill de Blasio and wife Chirlane McCray didn’t let coronavirus stop them from traveling 11 miles from Manhattan to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for a leisurely stroll — eliciting outrage from New Yorkers, online video shows.

“Seriously, you guys have a park. You live in the middle of a park. You don’t need to non-essentially travel to Brooklyn,” Twitter user Darren Goldner says, referencing Carl Schurz Park near Gracie Mansion, in a clip posted to Twitter Saturday.

Hizzoner responds, “C’mon guys give it a break,” as he and the first lady continue to walk away.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/27/bill-de-blasio-chirlane-mccray-stroll-through-prospect-park/

I see both Austria and Sweden have shut down the last of their coal-burning power plants, which is nice.

Explaining why Italian Renaissance paintings feature naked fat people on couches.

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1254804783875141633

Lyle Mays died in February, just before things started getting weird. (Other causes) ~ Crid at April 27, 2020 2:30 AM

Cool. The piece, not the death.

I hadn't really paid attention to the various players in Matheny's group. I may start.

Yes, IRA, I've been thinking about it a lot... in the future we need to maybe think of ways food production, medical services, and other important things can be scaled up or down.

Would there be a way to quickly gather the animals, slaughter and salt them or something?

Same with the milk... could we send in the national guard or something to get the milk, boil it down into condensed milk or powdered or dulce de leche or whatever, and save it for the famine stockpile? Even in bulk-size cases?

And I get tht it is a scale thing... if a local dairy farmer here couldn't sell his milk, I could certainly scrounge up a bunch of housewives to turn a bunch of it (maybe not all) into caramel sauce stored in jars from our recycling pile... doesn't work as well when it's on a huge scale like Tyson.

I mean there's always a famine somewhere... couldn't we save it and send it to wherever it was needed if we didn't end up needing it ourselves?

We just need a way to scale up and scale down.

Same with medical people... if too many people train to be medical personnel and flood the market, too many end up jobless. But if you have the right amount for normal times, you're short during a pandemic... is there a way to have a sort of medical reserves, like the army reserves, that have a few skills like giving shots or taking swabs or emptying bedpans or whatever, that can free up people with more training to do more? People who aren't normally medical professionals who have some other job in normal times?