Bird called him "Lily Pons" because he sang so beautifully. Born on this day, the wonderful Johnny Hodges, who came through Memphis with Duke Ellington when I was a boy. Many of Duke's musicians stayed in our home as there were not adequate hotels for musicians of color. Heaven.

I wrote a book. Pre-order it here: amazon.com/Data-Baby-Life…

Psyched to duet again with Jim Reid, William Reid and the Marychain in London tomorrow💛🎶 Have so missed duetting after the massive shock of losing Mark Lanegan so early last year💧❤️‍🩹

I am very happy for Susannah and very eager to read this book.

Still blows my mind that half of R.E.M. currently plays in a band who only writes songs about baseball, just because it's a lot of fun. I don't think there's a better example of four musicians who decided to stop being rock stars and meant it for real.

"This impulse – the creative dance – that is now being so cynically undermined, must be defended at all costs, and just as we would fight any existential evil, we should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world." theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making…

This outrage should absolutely be a national story and a cause for journalistic solidarity. Shame these people … Police stage 'chilling' raid on Kansas newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/pol…

I just finished one of the finest memoirs I’ve ever read, Five Days Gone, by the English art critic Laura Cumming I read the hardcover; it was republished in paperback under what I suppose is its original British title, On Chapel Sands. What a beautiful book.

The NFL delivers no end of on-the-field competition. But it's off-the-field NFL action where the real drama and intrigue lives. Seth Wickersham's reporting beat is off-the-field NFL action. His copy is must read.

Make sure to watch “Zero Gravity”, the fascinating new documentary about Wayne Shorter. Airs tonight on Amazon Prime, on Wayne’s 90th birthday! A must see!

This is a great profile, by a great reporter and writer.

Our story “Untold” required so much of so many — from our colleagues at @ESPN who supported it start to finish to the women who were asked to tell their stories after decades of silence. Thanks to Center for Sports Communication & Media for recognizing not only our work but also the testament of those voices.

Thanks to Esquire for taking "The Falling Man" from behind the paywall.

This is remarkable.

.Bronwen Dickey has written the definitive history of pit bulls, the breed and the bans. And she has this exactly right.

Absolutely MIND-BLOWING! 🤯 A zoom out of the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars... Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson......

What kind of man runs for nine miles in the NFL? Frank Gore might be the last running back ever to do so, and now he talks about the secrets of survival and how he might pass them on. A story about the Last Running Back...and the next. espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

Hard Work‼️ Mindset‼️ WATCH what you can do‼️ espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

"Author Alice McDermott on linking the dramas of women's lives and wartime Saigon" Alice McDermott was on All Things Considered. Listen here: npr.org/2023/12/21/122…

A Simile is like a Metaphor that doesn't believe in itself. A Metaphor is a Simile that takes itself too seriously.