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Mike Baron (aka Bloody Red Baron) was the longtime album reviewer for Pop Geek Heaven. With the closure of that legendary power pop newsletter, we are very happy to host his latest round of album reviews here at Remember The Lightning. Jordan Jones’ minimalist packaging belies the richness of his songs, which approach Explorers Club serendipity, particularly the first song, “Envelope of Skin,” and particularly The Explorers Club’s Grand Hotel, when the Club expanded beyond their Beach Boys inspiration to embrace Burt Bacharach.

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(Above: Teddy and Archie sunning in our garden atop Telegraph Hill on Lombard Street when we lived in San Francisco.) I have always kept a line of social media demarcation between what I write in my posts on Instagram and Facebook and what I write here at SES/SUMS IT UP. But I am making an exception today because I want this to be in my archives here. Plus, I’m not sure how much of an overlap finally there is between the two types of readership.

Lawrence Sperry, inventor of the first airplane autopilot, just after landing his tiny “Sperry Flivver” airplane on the east plaza of the US Capitol complex in 1922. The plane took longer to slow down than he expected, so as a braking technique Sperry steered it up onto the steps to the Senate chamber. (Library of Congress.)The news pegs for this post are the recall order last week for 2 million Tesla cars; the FAA and NTSB announcements this week about stresses on pilots and controllers in the commercial air-travel system; and the flood of holiday-season travel that ramps up today and is expected to pass pre-pandemic levels in the coming week.

If you’re new here, welcome! To ensure you never miss an issue of The Weekly Dirt, click here to subscribe 👇 Hi, guys! It won’t be long now before the weeds show up. I typically pull them up by hand or tool. A nice layer of mulch goes a long way toward preventing them from taking hold, and when they do, they pull up easily. In the lawn, I ju…

Do alpha males even exist? And if so, are they the bad guys? In this week's blizzard edition of Living Manly, I ask whether masculine men are also alpha male, if that even exists. Spoiler alert: Yes, alpha male tendencies are real. I'll show you that by walking you through four species of dimorphic, sexually reproducing animals (giant cuttlefish, red deer, rats, and gorillas) to learn the difference between mere dominance and actual alpha male drives.

Before incels, men and women have found themselves asking this question. With the complete earth shattering heartbreaks that come with the seemingly purest emotion people have wondered if actually, is it worth it? Is it worth the rejection, the pain, the sometimes humiliation, the fierceness and the crushing blows. There’s a reason some men have gone to join the French Foreign Legion after heartbreak (and still do), because sometimes with painful heartbreak, war seems like an easier option.

The Houston Astros of recent vintage have been so consistently good that it became easy to take them for granted. From 2017 to 2023, Houston either made the World Series or came within a Game 7 of it six times in seven seasons, winning a pair of titles and four American League pennants. Along the way, the team had a high-profile cheating scandal, but then achieved a measure of vindication by continuing to win after taking their punishment.