Covered this week; How the Beatles wrote ‘A Day in the Life’… Roger Moore dies at 89… People selling their cars in favor of Uber and Lyft… The Democrats battle for Montana… Comparing Apple and Google Maps over a years time… Gregg Allman dies at 69… the Doves typeface resurfaces…
May 22, 2017
Fifty years after its release, A Day in the Life, the sprawling closing track on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band remains a testament to the Beatles ambitious songwriting.
The song for reference.
May 23, 2017
Roger Moore, the dapper British actor who brought tongue-in-cheek humor to the James Bond persona in seven films, died on Tuesday in Switzerland. He was 89.
May 24, 2017
Nearly a quarter of American adults sold or traded in a vehicle in the last 12 months, according to a Reuters opinion poll published on Thursday, with most getting another car. But 9 percent of that group turned to ride services like Lyft and Uber as their main way to get around.
May 25, 2017
“Gianforte’s record of suing to block access to a fishing easement on his land – in addition to donations his foundation made to a Bozeman group that advocates the transfer of federal lands to private control – has given life to a narrative that he wants to fence off Montana’s wild spaces, or sell them off to the highest bidder. Gianforte denies this. But he has lined up behind Trump at the very moment the president is threatening to remove federal protection from dozens of national monuments – including Montana’s Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, a spectacular area of limestone cliffs and cottonwood forests.” Hoping Rob Quist defeats this dope in Montana…
May 26, 2017
Are you a map geek like me? If so, here’s a read that’ll keep you busy for a while.
May 27, 2017
Gregg Allman, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, the incendiary group that inspired and gave shape to both the Southern rock and jam-band movements, died on Saturday at his home in Savannah, Ga. He was 69.
May 28, 2017
After a dispute between its creators, the Doves Type was left to lie in the Thames. A century later, it has finally resurfaced. This is the story of its rescue.
Taking a few weeks off, back on June 26th.
