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Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Instead of getting caught up in the depressing Ukrainian vortex on Twitter today, why not try somethin' else?
I actually think I like Miles Davis on SOMETHIN' ELSE with Cannonball Adderley more than I like him on any of his albums with his Coltrane quintet/sextet at the time except KIND OF BLUE. Just another Blue Note jazz classic.
ASCENSEUR POUR L'ÉCHAFAUD is one of Miles' most fascinating projects. Louis Malle got him to score it when he was visiting France, and Miles did it by watching the film and then having the band improv to emotional themes from specific scenes. Glory.
It's pretty obscure in the Miles Columbia discography though, because it's only 26 minutes of material. I think it's on JAZZ TRACK, which is otherwise a post-KIND OF BLUE odds & sods album.

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Feb 26
The world is now being reminded about the abiding truth behind Russian military power, from the 16th century to 10:45pm Chicago time: mass and numbers can blot out eventually, but will not cure, sloppy tactics & poor training.
Russians actually suck at war on a point-of-contact level. Good at dying en masse, not so much when it comes to quick victory. Artillery and siege is all they know. But Kiev will not be Grozny, should they attempt such a folly. It will be Stalingrad.
See, that's the funny thing about invading someone else's country: every Ukrainian has now become a combatant whether they like it or not.
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Feb 25
In case Russia feels like moving on after Ukraine, here's a captcha for Vlad: Image
SPOILER: all nine panels plus an extra 27 to your left, right, and rear.
No, a tweet by a rando sitting in Chicago will not.

Memories of 1940 Russo-Finnish War, however, this time possibly re-run with NATO backing? That scares him.
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Feb 25
You can gloat about this, but I think about his mother, and his eternal soul, and how badly he was used and abused by Russia, who he pledged his life to.
Took 40 years and I've never loved the album as a whole, but this song finally clicked for me today.
"Some mother's son lies in a field
Back home they put his picture in the frame.
But all dead soldiers look the same
While all the parents stand and wait."
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Feb 25
I want to try something difficult here: interpreting the Biden/Dem team's foreign policy vis-a-vis Russia in the last 2 yrs in the best possible light, as opposed to "look at these comical bunglers." (It's an extremely healthy exercise for your mind.) And I have some thoughts...
In a very real way, Biden just happens to be the unlucky guy in office paying off the accumulated debts of the Trump, Obama, and Bush 2 admins as far as Russia is concerned. This is critically important to remember. I think this still happens if Trump is reelected; you may not.
And also, in a very real way, I think both the Biden team and State and the IC have actually handled themselves extremely well in the past two months. You will scoff given the bombs raining on Kiev, but in terms of our sometimes rusty diplomatic apparatus, we actually did good.
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Feb 25
Linguistics nerd in me thinks maybe at least people will start paying more attention to Slavic languages now? And lack of definite article in Russian?
This is a very dork observation to make, but one reason it's so easy to parody "Russian speaks English" in both prose and verbal performance is that lack of "the" or "a/an," the definite article, in Slavic. Immediately sets it apart from Germanic or Romance Indo-European langs.
Here's the thing about German articles: the retention of Proto-Indo-European's cruelest mistake, the Neutral Gender. Okay, if for some stupid reason you have to gender your nouns, fine. English solved this a millennium ago, but you do you. But NEUTRAL??
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