Upfull Living Or, A Tale of Two Album Covers
Sean MurphyPart One: Pharoah Sanders Maybe you have to be a Jazz aficionado to get excited by an album cover, but come on: How can you not love this? How can…
How Caddyshack Explains Everything (Exhibit A: The Deficit)
Listening to the disingenuous whining of the G.O.P. regarding the outrageous and irresponsible debt Obama is creating provokes various reactions. Here are ten of them. (But first, the image it conjures…
Sexism Sells…But Who’s Buying?
Our attitudes toward sex tell us just about everything we need to know about ourselves. Go ahead and open a book, put on the TV, pop in a DVD or turn…
We’ve Come A Long Way, Kind Of…
From today's NYT: On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The…
One Small Step for Man’s Mind
Listen: there are people who actually believe that the moon landing never happened. Lots of people. Not that it didn’t happen, necessarily, but that it was an elaborate, carefully staged…
A Mile High Is No Place To Be Dry
Not everyone is man enough to join the mile high club. It's all a matter of taste. I have learned, with the wisdom that comes with hard experience and…
The Washington Post + Integrity = Cygnus X-1
At this point, I figured I'd said all I could possibly say about my disgust with (and embarrassment for) The Washington Post. Granted, they keep finding new ways to distinguish themselves…
Here Comes The Flood
Sometimes your condo gets flooded. It's odd, but since it wasn't my fault (some clown on the fourth floor installed something, or had something installed, that malfunctioned, dripping its incompetent pain…
(Some Things Never) Change That We Can Believe In
First off, even if this photo is doctored (and there is no way that it is) it's still genius. Epic. Some intial takes on the matter, in real time, sent…
Mingus Ah Um: An Open Letter to the 20th Century
1959 was, by any measure, a watershed year for jazz music. Some all-time great recordings were released during this year, including Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis), Giant Steps (John Coltrane),…