I fell asleep, woke up, saw Rachel Maddows pull an exact quote from her anti-war book “Drift” about Lincoln warning against the worst and most King-like oppression of the people of a President making war, and then saw a totally unknown as far as I know but passable act called Eric Turner, who looks like the new Bob Dylan but with a band that could take the Roots in running fulls. Almost worth staying up, now that the computer is laplike and sparkling, for something promising called White Rabbit on Fallon –although I thnk I am taping M. Ward the former future farmer (?) on another channel — and bowling with Christina Applegate.

edit to add: still no idea who Eric Turner is but while fact-checking the ? regarding M. Ward and Future Farmer I diverted somehow to the fact that Esperanza Spalding recorded for Hush Records and Merge Records as a sideperson, as early as 2003, notably on “Transfiguration of Vincent” with M. Ward.

edit to add: he is an American, from Boston College high, lives in Sweden, teaches Math as a day job and is on Capitol Records, with this video, and the additional digression — wow, this is a great half-awake lat night surf session or a very vivid dream, who knew that Janelle Wang

Janelle Wang speaks mandarin on NBC and was a gunn cheerleader???

of local NBC affiliate is a former Gunn High cheerleader?

this might be important: