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FWIW:

A Post Mortem Autopsy: From A Diddy Party to a Pity Party https://shorturl.at/eIVYI

Introducing The Paycheck to Paycheck Voter https://shorturl.at/6AIkb

Remember Remember the 5th of November https://shorturl.at/PFtAJ

The Red Badge of Courage Being Called Uncle Tom https://shorturl.at/onCf7

Black Women Blaming Black Men For Harris Loss https://shorturl.at/mq0kH

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With reference to your comments on Quincy Jones, Austin Kleon also wrote in his substack about him this week: “Anyone who says they’ve figured out how to make records sell more than 50 million copies is lying and smoking Koolaid. It doesn’t work like that. You just find a group of songs that touches you and gives you goosebumps. I go by my goosebumps.” RIP “music titan” Quincy Jones. He shows up in one of my books, and might just show up in the next. I bought his book 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity a while back and I’ve been meaning to watch Quincy, the Netflix documentary co-directed by his daughter Rashida Jones. (If you’ve never read his 2018 Vulture interview with David Marchese, it is a wild ride”).

Austin’s whole substack / blog is well worth a read for anyone pursuing the creative life( he’s the author of the bestselling ‘Steal like an artist’ - his latest post is here https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/dont-let-your-dreams-give-up-on-you)

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