The Times

Published on September 7, 2025

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Music

• A couple by C. Diab: Tiny Umbrellas and Crypsis
• The beginning of Cats Cradle (Iris) by Hannah Epperson
• Dawning and Wind by Shida Shihabi
• A couple from Ceeys: Neighbour II and Union

Notes

• I really enjoyed reading both Lew Irwin’s Deadly Times: the 1910 Bombing of the L.A. Times and America’s Forgotten Decade of Terror, and Bread and Hyacinths: the Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles, by Lionel Rolfe
• As an, at this point, long-time Angeleno, I highly recommend visiting the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.