I’m not anal enough to have my disks alphabetized — how else would one randomly find stuff! Anyway, well before Nils joined the E-Street Band and before Springsteen’s break out album of ’75 (Born to Run) I thought Nils should have been as big as what BS did eventually become. Who could forget the elegiac “Keith…
“Just look at my sweater, you disgusting monster.” “Only the most flamboyant offal would be seen in a miscarriage like that. You must have some shame or at least some taste in dress.” “You awful creature. You huge thing.” “I will probably spend several years at the Eye, ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital having this…
One of the most insightful industry commentators talks about the Popcorn “bomb” and the company I’m involved with — mediAm. digital distributionmediAmmonopoliespopcorn timetom locke
Here is the preliminary call. Michael OakeshottMichael Oakeshott Association
“Everyone has an anthropology,” wrote Walker Percy, right on the money as usual. “There is no not having one. If a man says he does not, all he is saying is that his anthropology is implicit, a set of assumptions which he has not thought to call into question.” James Parker, The Twee Revolution, The…
A new paper by Jack Birner CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceFriedrich Hayekjack burnerphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindthe sensory order
Now this is what I call a teacher — the teacher happens to be Toole’s biographer. a confederacy of duncesCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy TooleLiteratureteaching
Good find — H/T Edmund Neill Below, my favorite version of one of my favorite pieces of music (To the Memory of an Angel) alban bergcolin davisgidon kremermusicTo the Memory of an Angeltwelve tone
JazzLouis Armstrongmusicnew orleanspopsSatchmo
A snippet from yesterday’s funeral. JazzLionel Ferbosnew orleanssecond line
