Life Imitating Art Imitating Life…
Sean MurphyRoger Cohen, again. One needs to be either peculiarly observant or exceedingly self-absorbed to behold, in another's writing, traces of one's own. But for the second time in one…
William Dowd, RIP–and some thoughts about the harpsichord
A life well spent? That's the goal, isn't it? For any of us. Not necessarily to be enshrined in a newspaper's obituary (although few people would protest such a proposition),…
Song of the Day: Mingus, “Pithecanthropus Erectus”
You know, this picture has always killed me. It pretty much says everything that needs to be said about Creationism, the Religious Right, and the intelligence-insulting "debate" about teaching Intelligent…
Introducing MWine122
mwine122: What do you make of this: mwine122: (from Chris Kraus' introductory essay from Pornocracy, the novel that is a companion piece to Catherine Breillat's film, Anatomy of Hell)…
It’s All Part of Der Process
From Andrew Sullivan's invaluable blog (TheDailyDish), comes the following (quoted from Roger Cohen's typically sane and salient perspective--this one, here is must reading--via The New York Times): Of the 770 detainees…
Woolworth’s RIP
Woolworths Goes Down: Last week Woolworths officially filed for bankruptcy If anything screams America, it's Woolworths. (K-mart too.) For me, the '70s mall scene is incomplete without Woolworths. And, of…
The Whiteness of the Whale (or, It Was 40 Years Ago Today…)
Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar…
Song of the Day: Daniel Barenboim (Sonata No. 14, 3rd Movement)
Beethoven again. It seems impossible to believe that Daniel Barenboim is only 66 years old. It feels like he has been around forever. Possibly it's because the music he plays--the…
Keeping Alaska Safe from (and for) Turkeys
Re. Palin's latest: Are you kidding me? There are so many levels to this, it's impossible to even begin. You could make a career out of this one clip (literally--Palin…
Song of the Day: Up from the Skies
Really no commentary necessary. Jimi Hendrix. Vernon Reid. Enough said. I'm smart enough to just get out of the way and enjoy.