We’re keeping it low-key tonight, staying in with the cats. May not even make it to midnight. 2024 will get her either way. I hope it brings us all good news and happiness.

NOBODY GOES TO POUND TOWN FOR ITS EXCELLENT MUSEUMS OR SCENIC RIVER WALK, WHICH IS A SHAME.

I LOVE MY NEWLY AUGMENTED DRUM SET SO MUCH. I'M LIKE THOSE SALAD WOMEN FROM THE PICTURES.

College football playoff selection makes Ohio politics look like it’s on the up and up

I have some work to do.

I am *thrilled* to announced that I have been awarded a University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Special Events Grant for $12,000 to help pay for a concert performance of John Quincy Adams and the Subterraneans!

Clear your calendars, folks - 3:00pm, April 20, 2024, HFA Recital Hall, UMN Morris, Morris, MN! There should be a livestream too!

PREPPING FOR SANTA'S ARRIVAL BY INSTALLING AA GUNS IN THE YARD. THE WAR ENDS THIS YEAR! IO SATURNALIA!

Thanks to Daniel J Cosio and friends for incredible performances! Here’s video and audio:

https://wesflinnmusic.com/2023/11/15/performances/

In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-very-rare-move-pope-dismisses-conservative-us-bishop-strickland/ar-AA1jLtyr

105 years since the Armistice. Something I wrote on its centennial. I think we lost something when we transitioned from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.

We shifted our focus from the end of the fight to those who fought. Warriors are very often noble. War very often is not. When we celebrate the nobility of the warrior we run the risk of forgetting the ignobility of war.

https://www.masson.us/blog/centennial-of-the-armistice/

@mattsledge I would have beers with Tom.