HeyJaredAll My Stars
by Joanne McNeil Recommended books, films, exhibitions &c. Sent once a week or whatever a week is in my mind.
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a bale of harps, a pride of harps, a congregation, a blessing (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, I went to help out a friend with a work assignment at a space on the west side I was unfamiliar with called “The Harp Center.”I got there and walked in, and—Hark! There were harps, actual harps! One harp is special to see, but have you ever seen dozens of harps of all sizes but mostly big? A forest full of these, the unicorns of musical instruments. Tall ethereal stringed creatures. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hfz0!,
another blank (opens the original)
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Back in your inbox after a couple of days or almost a year. I sent a letter out on Sunday that felt a little bit more like shouting in an empty forest than newslettering already leaves me. It turned out there were DNS errors and it was marked as spam to most subscribers.This sounds way more technically advanced than it is, and it’s helpful to know if you’ve ever wondered if a message misfired. If you open up the raw header (in Gmail, you can see it when you click the “show original” menu option
saving the blanks (opens the original)
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It’s been a while since I’ve searched for lyrics to a song half-remembered or plot elements of TV episode from decades ago (eg “murder mystery woman cat purple dress locked out of apartment”) without accessing the name (and sometimes grainy VHS rips on YouTube) in one click.But recently I got stumped. Visiting The Clock at LACMA a couple weeks ago, I was struck by one of the clips between 5 and 6pm.There’s a teenage girl pacing around a bedroom where an old woman is lying down. The room is full
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