yeh not sure how you got that

I was being serious.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/21/afr...rnd/index.html

American drowns after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzania

Yikes.

Sounds like he dodged a bullet.

Correct, which is why I said it really needs it's own discussion separate from the stats we were going over as well as the minimum wage itself.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/6-y...fter-incident/

Florida police officer fired after arresting pair of 6-year-olds

100% siding with the cop here. I don’t care what the article says.

Vivisect the little bastards!

Hey Macarthur Grant, nice taste. Excited to see if any particularly ambitious projects come out of this.

Mary Halvorson Wins 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant

Nice. I’ve been intermittently reading a book on free jazz from the 60’s recently and was surprised to learn how important private grants and university and government funding were to the genre. Cecil Taylor, Mingus, Art Ensemble of Chicago for example - according to this book - they survived more on financing by subsidies to the “black arts” than by gigging, touring, and record sales.

I definitely think Halvorson is a fantastic choice, the perfect choice even, and we’re going to get some great ****ing music out of it.

This isn’t jazz but I wrote about this on Freak Fighter because these avant garde composers really did need those sweetheart tenured profs jobs.

https://www.musicbanter.com/2064349-post1026.html
https://www.musicbanter.com/2064350-post1027.html

Wuorinen may come across as an entitled child by our standards but none-the-less his music needed to exist.

"Jazz is the music of unemployment."

- Frank Zappa