One of the main guys from Fountains of Wayne died of COVID yesterday. I never liked the band’s music well enough to learn any of their names, but when I listened to a few of their songs I found I still knew all of the words. It was one of those revelations when you find a fully plaqued memory and suddenly decades of accretion melt away and there it is, stale, tucked into a forgotten corner of your heart.
Let’s see what is on the news today:
Court Tells Lying Cops That Someone Asserting Their Rights Isn’t ‘Reasonably Suspicious’ - Tech Dirt
Charles Koch network pushed $1 billion cut to CDC, now attacks shelter-in-place policies for harming business - The Intercept
Dolly Parton donates $1m to finding to finding a cure for deadly illness - Sky News
Gender reveal party sparks 10-acre fire in Florida - WPTV.com
Queen of Malaysia has been cooking for hospital workers - MSN.com
Adam Schlesinger, a musician an songwriter highly regarded for his work as a member of Fountains of Wayne, dies of Coronavirus Complications at 52 - Variety
Coronavirus: US Surgeon General says California’s aggressive measures helped flatten COVID-19 curve - ABC 7 News
US Box Office totals for the week of March 20-26 was $5,179. This time last year, it was $204,193,406 - Box Office Mojo
Americans Can’t Sign Up for Health Care Insurance During a Global Pandemic, Trump Decides - Vanity Fair
Defying Florida governor, Miami archbishop says there will be no Easter masses - Miami Herald
Arnold Schwarzenegger personally delivered a cargo of 50,000 masks to doctors on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic - Politico
More than 1,000 in U.S. die in a single day from coronavirus, doubling the worst daily death toll of the flu - USA Today
Dr. Anthony Fauci forced to beef up security as death threats increase - CNN
Calgary Man Charged With Threatening to Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People - VICE
I’ve just noticed…all of these headlines don’t really phase me. Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night, and the glow of the TV is dimly lighting the room and you’re switching channels and you catch just snippets of all of this programming that someone paid for, that someone or something scheduled to appear at that time, and as the channels the change the room goes briefly dark, just oscillating on loop. Being in this news deluge is like that. There’s so much that nothing lands properly or deeply. I wonder if future generations will not have this problem processing news.
