First-time listening for JANUARY 2026

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26978. (Bill Haley) The Dec­ca Years & More [disc 1]
Nige­ria 70 – No Waha­la: High­life, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973–1987:
. . . . 26979. (Odeye­mi) “Oni Suru” 
. . . . 26980. (Prince Nico Mban­ga & Rocafil Jazz) “Sick­ness”
. . . . 26981. (Felix­son Nga­sia & The Sur­vivals) “Black Pre­cious Colour”
. . . . 26982. (Sina Bakare) “Africa”
. . . . 26983. (Sax­on Lee & The Shad­ows Inter­na­tion­al) “Spe­cial Secret of Baby”
. . . . 26984. (Osay­omore Joseph & The Cre­ative 7) “Obonog­bozu”
. . . . 26985. (Inter­na­tion­al Broth­ers Band) “Onu­ma Dimnobi”
. . . . 26986. (Don Bruce & The Angels) “Kin­uye”
. . . . 26987. (Rogana Ottah & His Black Heroes Int.) “Let Them Say”
. . . . 26988. (Etubom Rex Williams & His Niger­ian Artistes) “Psy­che­del­ic Shoes”
. . . . 26989. (Vic­tor Uwaifo & The Titibitis) “Iziegbe [Ekas­sa No.70]”
. . . . 26990. (M.A. Jaiyes­i­mi & His Cres­cent Bros Band) “Mundiya Loju”
26991. (George Shear­ing) George Shear­ing on Stage!
26992. (Chet Bak­er) The Ital­ian Sessions
26993. (Erroll Gar­ner) Con­cert by the Sea
26994. (Rug­gero Leon­cav­al­lo) Gli Zin­gari [com­plete opera; d. Bon­com­pag­ni; Galli, 
. . . . . Bot­tion, Scor­soni ‑1970]
26995. (Bud­dy DeFran­co) Bud­dy DeFran­co en Argentina

READING — JANUARY 2026

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(William Brei­d­ing) Leavings:
. . . . 25501. (Phil Paine) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 25502. (William Brei­d­ing) The Sen­su­al World [arti­cle]
. . . . 25503. (William Brei­d­ing) Out Into the Woods [arti­cle]
. . . . 25504. (William Brei­d­ing) Coups d’etats of Child­hood [arti­cle]
. . . . 25505. (William Brei­d­ing) Beyond the Mask [arti­cle]
. . . . 25506. (William Brei­d­ing) Ron­nie Daw­son “Rockin’ Bones” [arti­cle]
. . . . 25507. (William Brei­d­ing) Patron Saint of the Honky Tonks [arti­cle]
. . . . 25508. (William Brei­d­ing) Dead Pop Stars [arti­cle]
. . . . 25509. (William Brei­d­ing) Pop Mat­ters [arti­cle]
. . . . 25510. (William Brei­d­ing) Craw­dad Train [arti­cle]
. . . . 25511. (William Brei­d­ing) Crate Dig­ger [arti­cle]
. . . . 25512. (William Brei­d­ing) Julia Elliott [arti­cle]
. . . . 25513. (William Brei­d­ing) Armis­tead Maupin [arti­cle]
. . . . 25514. (William Brei­d­ing) Leav­ings: 2015 [arti­cle]
. . . . 25515. (William Brei­d­ing) You’ll Be Dead [sto­ry]
. . . . 25516. (William Brei­d­ing) A Tale of Romance [arti­cle]
. . . . 25517. (William Brei­d­ing) What’s Up With Led Zep? [arti­cle]
. . . . 25518. (William Brei­d­ing) Mis­fits in Milan [arti­cle]
. . . . 25519. (William Brei­d­ing) Nasty Boy What Went Wrong? [arti­cle]
. . . . 25520. (William Brei­d­ing) San Fran­cis­co and the Big Beat [arti­cle]
. . . . 25521. (William Brei­d­ing) How To Go Deeply Into Debt [arti­cle]
. . . . 25522. (William Brei­d­ing) The Lar­ry Chron­i­cles [arti­cle]
. . . . 25523. (William Brei­d­ing) Down Among the Lau­rels [arti­cle]
. . . . 25524. (William Brei­d­ing) The Skele­tons of Win­ter [arti­cle]
. . . . 25525. (William Brei­d­ing) My Sister’s Fake Hus­band [poem]
. . . . 25526. (William Brei­d­ing) Page From a Fucked Up Diary [poem]
. . . . 25527. (William Brei­d­ing) About To Begin [poem]
25528. (Andrew Ross Sorkin) 1929 ― Inside the Great­est Crash in Wall Street History 
. . . . . and How It Shat­tered a Nation
25529. (Lau­ra Diet­rich, et al) LBK Out­posts of Eil­sleben: Hunter-farmer Encounters 
. . . . . in the Bor­der­lands of Ear­ly Neolith­ic Cen­tral Europe [arti­cle]
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Image of the Month — JANUARY 2026

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FILMS — DECEMBER 2025

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(Mack­endrick 1955) The Ladykillers
(Booth 1900) Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost
(Lean 1947) Great Expectations
(Jew­i­son 1967) In the Heat of the Night
(Mar­rin 1938) A Christ­mas Carol
(Ban­gu­ra 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.137 ― The Devil’s Work
(Clements, Hall, Musker & Williams 2016) Moana
(Izatt 2018) A Christ­mas Carol
(Wilkin­son 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.138 ― Book of the Dead
(Roley 1965) Lost in Space: Ep.9 ― The Oasis
(Zemeck­is 2009) A Christ­mas Carol
(Gib­son 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.139 ― Claws Out
(Hall 1941) Here Comes Mr. Jordan
(Spiel­berg 1993) Juras­sic Park

First-time listening for DECEMBER 2025

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26971. (Hrdza) Neskrotený
26972. (Peter Sculthor­pe) Irkan­da IV for Vio­lin, Per­cus­sion and Strings
26973. (Farya Fara­ji) “Noël Huron” [sin­gle]
26974. (Clan­nad) Anam
26975. (H. P. Love­craft) H. P. Lovecraft
26976. (H. P. Love­craft) H. P. Love­craft 2
26977. (Great Big Sea) XX

READING — DECEMBER 2025

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25481. (Sum­it Kumar) Decolonis­ing Jus­tice in India: A Sol­i­dar­i­ty-Based Approach to 
. . . . . Post-Colo­nial Jus­tice [arti­cle]
25482. (Vladimir F. Nicules­cu) Non-genet­ic Mech­a­nisms in Can­cer Evo­lu­tion: Senescence, 
. . . . . Uni­cel­lu­ar­iza­tion, and Cycles of Stem­ness Recov­ery [arti­cle]
25483. (Dominick Gra­ham) The Price of Com­mand ― A Biog­ra­phy of Gen­er­al Guy Simonds
25484. (Vera Zam­ag­ni) An Eco­nom­ic His­to­ry of Europe Since 1700
25485. (Har­ry Boyte) The Black Cit­i­zen Teach­ers Who Changed the South [arti­cle]
25486. (Hédi Bouraoui) Ain­si par­le la Tour CN 
(August Strind­berg) Six Plays of Strind­berg [tr. Eliz­a­beth Sprigge]:
. . . . 25487. (Eric Bent­ley) On Strind­berg [pref­ace]
. . . . 25488. (August Strind­berg) The Father [play]
. . . . 25489. (August Strind­berg) Miss Julie [play]
. . . . 25490. (August Strind­berg) The Stronger [play]
. . . . 25491. (August Strind­berg) East­er [play]
. . . . 25492. (August Strind­berg) A Dream Play [play]
. . . . 25493. (August Strind­berg) The Ghost Sonata [play]
25494. (John T. Koch) Con­ver­gence in situ: the For­ma­tion of the Indo-Euro­pean Branches 
. . . . . and the Bronze-Iron Tran­si­tion [arti­cle]
25495. (Philippe Aubert de Gaspé) Les anciens Canadiens
25496. (Zhizhou Zhang, et al) The Evo­lu­tion of Cog­ni­tive Abil­i­ties in Marine Ani­mals: A
. . . . . Hypoth­e­sis Based on Insights about Cog­ni­tion Gene Poly­mor­phisms in 
. . . . . Coe­lo­canths and Lung­fish [arti­cle]
25497. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) Intro­duc­ing Malavak
25498. (Vera Zam­ag­ni) The Ital­ian Economy 
25499. [3] (John Hen­ry Cut­ler) Tom Stet­son and the Giant Jun­gle Ants
25500. [3] (Lee Sut­ton) Venus Boy

Image of the Month — DECEMBER 2025 — Art of Paul Kane

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Paul Kane (1810–1871)
“The Sur­vey­or: Por­trait of Cap­tain John Hen­ry Lefroy” paint­ed c.1845
The artist died in his home, a short dis­tance from my apart­ment in Toron­to, and is buried nearby.

FILMS — NOVEMBER 2025

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(Lean 1957) The Bridge on the Riv­er Kwai
(Leach 1983) The Pirates of Penzance
(Pathé bros. 1908) La Vie chez les Lapons
(de Chomón 1908) The Lunatics
(Méliès 1908) Long Dis­tance Wire­less Pho­tog­ra­phy [Pho­togra­phie élec­trique à distance]
(McGowan 1963) The Lit­tlest Hobo [orig­i­nal series]: Ep.30 ― Double-Cross
(Hus­ton 1963) The List of Adri­an Messenger
(1908) The Last Car­tridge, an Inci­dent of the Sepoy Rebel­lion in India
(Pathé Frères 1908) The Island of St. Kil­da, Scot­land [L’Île de St Kilda]
(Horn 1965) Lost in Space: Ep.8 ― Invaders from the Fifth Dimension
(Coop­er 1908) Dreams of Toyland
(Deed 1908) Le cos­tume blanc
(Spiel­berg 1975) Jaws
(Polan­s­ki 1965) Repulsion

First-time listening for NOVEMBER 2025

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26963. (Clan­nad) Legend
26964. (Johann Got­tlieb Nau­mann) Piano Con­cer­to in B‑f
26965. (Great Big Sea) Fortune’s Favour
26966. (Clan­cy Broth­ers & Dublin­ers) Irish Drink­ing Songs
26967. (Zap Mama) Zap Mama
26968. (Clan­nad) Macalla
26969. (Jón Leifs) Geysir, pre­lu­dio per orches­tra, Op.51
26970. (Great Big Sea) Safe Upon the Shore

READING — NOVEMBER 2025

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25464. (Sebas­t­ian Sali­cru) Emo­tion­al Free­dom Tech­niques in Men­tal Health Care [arti­cle]
25465. (Patrizia Nanz) What Kind of Inno­va­tion for Europe’s Future? Uni­ver­si­ties as 
. . . . . Anchors for a Rad­i­cal Change [arti­cle]
25466. (Mark Lil­la) The Reck­less Mind ― Intel­lec­tu­als in Politics
25467. (Philip Men­sah) Strength­en­ing Mar­itime Secu­ri­ty for Ocean Sus­tain­abil­i­ty within 
. . . . . Namibia’s Green Econ­o­my Tran­si­tion [arti­cle]
25468. (Her­shey H. Fried­man) The Edu­ca­tion Irony: When Col­lege Degrees Lead to 
. . . . . Unem­ploy­ment, Mind­less Think­ing, Debt, and Despair [arti­cle]
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