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A Disco Dialectic?
I've had this blog for a long time now and was so stunned by how feng shui my first post was that I just couldn't bring myself to add anything. Perhaps it's finally time to ruin the balance I had so...
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Arriving to the future?
If this is going to be an actual thing, there’s got to be a plan.These are McCarthyisms for Your Work Week, and there will be something waiting here for you every Sunday morning, bright and early,...
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Moving, Part I
On the fourth Sunday of every month I'll be posting something that's too long for a blog. I anticipate that these will tend to be essays or short stories, but like everything else you find here,...
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progressive jazz banjo
The Smothers Brothers might be best known for causing a ruckus over at CBS, but the way that story often gets told, it might seem as if Tom Smothers was just another promoter of a counterculture that...
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talking politics
Miss Manners, with the eloquence and keen insight I’ve come to expect from her column, got down to one of the basic reasons why the “politics rule” of social etiquette makes sense today: it is less...
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not my idea of happiness
This is getting up late this week, and believe you me, there are a lot of excuses. I almost waited to revise it through the next week, but I decided that the blog is designed to prevent me from being...
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Terry
Last week was a week free of McCarthyisms because I was upstate attending what was without a doubt the most simply elegant wedding I've ever seen. I was very grateful to be invited. It was hard coming...
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I kind of accidentally wound up reading about printing and music printing. This might be a theme I'll return to later, so what's here is just an introduction.Most people will probably remember all the...
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ice coffee
Every year, just a bit after the Fourth of July, it starts to feel like it does after the Fourth of July. Summer this year doesn't feel anything like it did when I wrote this little ditty, and that's...
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time to read
Despite my uncanny ability to imagine scenarios far more miserable than even the worst possible outcome of any given situation, even I could not not have foreseen how poorly my apartment search would...
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Quince and Color Field
When a performance of new music is as thoughtful and joyful as that by the Quince and Color Field Ensembles this past Good Friday, it’s easier to focus on the relationship between a composition and its...
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Being White is Better. Now What?
An old joke has been in fashion of late. It’s a recurring gag on 30 Rock and it’s standard fair for white comedians who want to touch on race. Though it’s a cheap trick, I have found one version...
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File sharing? It's nothing personal. Seriously.
A recent blog post by Emily White for NPR’s All Songs Considered has been getting some backlash from my musical facebook friends. It wasn’t a particularly interesting post, and as Mike Teager...
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Performance, Process, Theory
Brooklyn has been making the most of summer’s full with some great arts events, and I’ve had a chance to enjoy a couple of them. Last weekend Brooklyn had its “Go” event, with 1,708 artists opening...
View ArticleThe Politics of Detroit's Bankruptcy, or, Who Are You Calling Bankrupt?!
Even with all my Michigan friends on Facebook, it was probably only my daily newspaper routine that brought to my attention the foolish decree by emergency mismanagement making Detroit the largest city...
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