Stu died on this day.
Having now listened to this tribute to Ian Stewart three times I am of the view that it’s a most dignified and worthy tribute to this very shy and dignified chap — Stu. Even “Fats” would approve. Here are Ben’s sleeve notes and full album details. Job well done!
North Sea Jazz Fest
Ronnie Lane Band
A week in which we’ve lost yet another . . . but think about the richness they have provided us. A life well lived.
The Naturally N’Awlins chef has died.
Obituary in The Telegraph. 
As a lecturer Dr. Talc was renowned for the facile and sarcastic wit and easily digested generalizations that made him popular among the girl students and helped to conceal his lack of knowledge about almost everything in general and British history in particular (p. 110).
Thelma being . . . Thelma . . . what with the ubiquitous piano. (Also I’ve just noted that the excellent documentary on Toole, a collaboration between Toole biographer Corey MacLauchlin and film-maker Joe Sanford, has been updated — and there is now a transcript which I’d have found handy when writing my forthcoming review of “Butterfly”).
An eloquent review of the final season of Treme from the LA Times.
the series takes its form from the city’s substance; it does not so much present a point of view as embody a perpetual argument….It is romantic and naturalistic at once, as dreamy and earthy as the place in which it takes place — a place where when you die, they strike up the band.
This from the NYT (h/t to Shannon Selin). We will see . . . but me thinks the results (as with neuroeconomics) will be over-stated. Still, great marketing ploy for the author and his publisher. Check out The Science of Art and Brain and Art. This is a very good culturally informed and salutary article that one should read.
But the real quantitative science will come later, Mr. van der Werf said, when the researchers measure the novella’s effect on the 50 readers. They have asked Mr. Grunberg to try to keep each chunk of text limited to one dominant emotion, and have tracked where his cursor was at various points in each writing session, to match his words with the physiological data. The 50 readers will read the novella on an e-reader, to allow similar tracking.
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