1000 incarnations of the rose - when will we see its like again?

 it's the third anniversary of the 1000 incarnations of the rose american primitive guitar festival. 

american primitive guitarists from all over the planet gathered in takoma park (fahey's birthplace) for a festival of american primitive guitar. though (curiously) it was named after a robbie basho tune. 

when will we see its like again?

increasingly horsemouth thinks that it was robbie basho who was the genius player of the scene and that john fahey was just the originator.

philip k. dick spent some time in the washington suburbs (he went to school in silver spring maryland) when he was growing up. (horsemouth has learned from reading lawrence sutin's life of him divine invasions). dick found it conformist and dull. it was the setting for one of his non-SF novels, puttering about in a small land. 

in our parallel history of the paris commune (1871 to the present) the aristocratic edmond goncourt wakes to bad news. (and yet for all his reactionary bluster he sees it as it is)

'on awaking this morning, I saw that the fort at Issy, which I thought had been taken, was still flying the red flag. so the versailles troops have been thrown back again...

why this stubborn resistance? because in this war, the common people are waging their own war and are not under the army's orders. this keeps the men amused and interested, with the result that nothing tires or discourages or dispirits them. one can get anything out of them, even heroism.' 

meanwhile (back in the dreadful present) news that the minister for social care, helen whately,  despite earning £113,612 as an MP and minister, claimed £3,250 in housing rent from the taxpayer each month between april and november 2020 – £26,000 in total during those eight months alone.

if whately claims £3,250 a month for the whole of 2020/21, she will receive £39,000 towards her rent during the financial year. this is on its own higher than the estimated average annual pay of her constituents, the average full-time earnings in the UK, the average nurse’s salary – and over double the average full-time care worker’s pay.

horsemouth, for the life of him, can't see that the representation of social care being achieved by this vampire is worth the money spent on her. in the sea with it snarls horsemouth.