The normality of it all

This is a pager message, an alert received on a Goldman Sachs server about a potential system problem on a market data feed from another broker:

( Machines and Humans and Tragedy )

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"Sleeping Is the Only Love" by The Silver Jews has my Favrit Lyric EVAR for today:

You might as well say fuck me cause I'm gonna keep on,
Keep on loving you.

( Music! )

And has there ever been a more cheerful song about existential despair than Bishop Allen's "Little Black Ache"?

Sounding like a Leonard Cohen album played at 45rpm, we start

Sleeping on the subway in my interview tie
Wander through the rain, sit and wonder why
I haven't got a plan, I haven't got a clue
I've only got one lonely thing that's gonna see me through

I've got my little black ache

And then the chorus comes back like the Rayettes:

(What you got?)

Pure win!

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What a world, with such a Celestial Jukebox in it.