Skiz Fernando just published a DOOM book that supposedly gets into this to some degree.

a "closed sesame." if you will.

It’s like I used to tell musicians when I wrote about music: If you can be dissuaded, you will be.

But only among Black folks ha. Don’t think I ever sold one of those tapes to a white person

I sold a lot of Peabo Bryson tapes back in the ‘80s

That meant more rain once they made landfall, and while hurricanes are rated as threats by wind speed, they do the most damage through storm surge and rain. Obviously that’s on my mind today, along with all the folks I know and love in East Tennessee and all the folks in Western NC /2

No joke

It sounds like mostly she hung out with other French expats, but one of them knew Morrison, and then there he was! But it’s good either way.

Also, as someone else alluded, the fact that decades ago we Americans decided en masse that we can’t abide taxes. It’s kind of a cartoon version of the story, but that’s why the burden of supporting public colleges shifted from state support to tuition, kids.

Totally fair and accurate. I had the enlightening experience of trying to explain some Higher Ed 101 stuff to some journo students recently. I ended up going back to the fact that state support is typically one of the biggest state-budget line items not considered untouchable. 1/?