Via our faithful chronicler, we are reminded how on this day in 2016, on the first episode of the show 
following the US presidential election, Kate McKinnon, appearing in character as Hillary Clinton in their signature white pants suit, performed the cold open for Saturday Night Live singing a sombre and poignant rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah (a moving anthem that famously the artist took five years to finish and had upwards of one hundred eighty draft verses, which cycled in and out of live shows, demonstrating that good things take time), as tribute both to her alter-ego for losing to Trump and the death of Cohen himself, which had occurred in the preceding days as well. “I’m not giving up and neither should you.”
following the US presidential election, Kate McKinnon, appearing in character as Hillary Clinton in their signature white pants suit, performed the cold open for Saturday Night Live singing a sombre and poignant rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah (a moving anthem that famously the artist took five years to finish and had upwards of one hundred eighty draft verses, which cycled in and out of live shows, demonstrating that good things take time), as tribute both to her alter-ego for losing to Trump and the death of Cohen himself, which had occurred in the preceding days as well. “I’m not giving up and neither should you.”
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synchronoptica
one year ago: Connections (with synchronoptica) plus Remembrance Sunday
seven years ago: a German true crime mystery that’s partially never been solved
nine years ago: gasholders plus a photography clearing house
ten years ago: taxi cab confessions plus Roman Mainz
eleven years ago: some nimble and sure-footed goats
