Not a bad pull from the local record shop today.

Trying to grow my funk collection so Slave was a good find. And I can never pass up some vintage Costello or any Brian Eno.

Thanks Record Exchange Boise!!

#cratedigging #recordpull #music #elviscostello #armedforces #brianeno #anothergreenworld #slave #makebelieve #therecordexchange #boise

This is a whimsical mini linocut of the blue Batbearoo, a widely unknown, & quite possibly, completely imaginary composite creature. Despite its looks & its name, the Batbearoo is neither bat nor bear, but a flying marsupial most closely related to the quolls.

The Batbearoo (Dasychiroptera ursus) shares a common ancestor with the marsupial quoll family of Australia, & …

#imaginary #linocut #printmaking #compositeCreature #bat #bear #marsupial #illustration #makeBelieve

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kKBmSU9_eNY&feature=share
#EdithDay #HowettWorster #MakeBelieve #ShowBoat #musicaltheatre #78rpm #columbiarecords #audiorip

"Makebelieve is key to illiberal projects around the globe.

Makebelievers pretend, as children do, that the world is something that it isn’t. They makebelieve that they are the victims of some kind of conspiracy of dark, secret, malevolent forces against which they must pass laws to protect themselves and 'their way of life.' If you ask what these dark, secret, malevolent forces are, the reply is going to be like Bethany Mandel’s."

#woke #BethanyMandel #MakeBelieve #conservatives
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John Stoehr writes,

"We should see 'woke,' not as signifying a concrete meaning, but as a mirror. It reflects back at the illiberals their imagining of the world. It reflects how they imagine themselves and their enemies. We can say, as many have said, that Mandel wrote a book about a concept she can’t define. We can also say she wrote a book about makebelieve."

#woke #BethanyMandel #MakeBelieve #RightWing #conservatives
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https://www.editorialboard.com/bethany-mandel-and-the-makebelievers/

Is this all just #makebelieve? #covid

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-20-covid-virus-never-isolated-shown-to-cause-disease.html