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From Facebook to the Times
I’ve got a couple of man-in-the-street quotes in today’s The New York Times article about the mayoral election. It mentions my Monday Facebook status (“Mike, the more you call me, the less likely I am to vote for you,’ which … Continue reading
Eight Days of Names
As I write this, family members are reading the names of those killed in the attacks eight years ago. In previous years the reading was broadcast live on the radio, almost an hour of names tolled one per second, every … Continue reading
Ready For War
An unpleasant reminder of ongoing horror came in the mail yesterday, in the form of a seven-inch single. It’s John Cale’s “Mercenaries (Ready For War),” released in 1980, from his punk masterpiece, Sabotage/Live. The A side is a brutal song … Continue reading
Yes, I’m Glad They Shot the Pirates
I woke up this morning to the news that the Navy had killed the the three Somali pirates, and rescued Captain Richard Phillips, and I gave a little internal cheer. As I continued with my online reading, I found quite … Continue reading
Frost/Nixon — Fail
I saw Frost/Nixon last night with rednoodlealien and doodlegoat and was rather disappointed. On its own as a film it is in some ways magnificent — Frank Langella in particular is very good — but fails in that it sets … Continue reading
Racefail??? Are you kidding???
I am peripherally associated with the science fiction community and have been most of my life. As a teenage I was a typical “fan,” going to conventions and subscribing to the magazines and idolizing people like Isaac Asimov and Robert … Continue reading
Protected: “Our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken. You cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.”
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“He’s a no-account son-of-a-bitch”
William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath’rin’. William Zantzinger, immortalized by Bob Dylan as a racist murderer in “The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll“, … Continue reading
The Grand Inquistor
mary_wroth got tickets to the The Grand Inquisitor, a one-act play at the New York Theater Workshop based on the only chapter of The Brothers Karamazov that I liked (Part II, Book 5, Chapter 5), in which Christ returns to … Continue reading
An End To Cynicism?
For the first time in some months I updated the songs on my MySpace profile. I hate the site and its miserable UI, but it’s the most important social networking site for a musician, so I should pay more attention … Continue reading