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Notice!

I’m making major changes to how I handle incoming email, so if I’m not responding to messages, or if you get bounces or anything when you email me, please let me know right away. Email me at my LJ address, … Continue reading

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Frippery in Manhattan

Robert Fripp is one of the very few guitarists who are recognizable almost as soon as they play a note. Most of the others in this category — Jimi Hendrix, Richard Thompson, Muddy Waters, Mark Knopfler — are emotional players … Continue reading

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Service Advisories

This great piece of what the Times calls “Op-Art,” by Evan Eisenberg, is for some reason not at all available online, so I’m reproducing it here. The image is large but worth it. (Update: The Times fixed their site and … Continue reading

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Surprise: Rudy Sells Out NYC

So the Daily News just now noticed that Ghouliani has absolutely no principles? After everything that creep perpetrated in this city, it takes a baseball game to wake them up? But at least they provided a spiffy new userpic with … Continue reading

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The scientist versus the creationists

’55 ‘Origin of Life’ Paper Is Retracted Homer Jacobson taught my first-semester progamming course at Brooklyn College in 1983 — for which I wrote PL/I on punch cards and waited as long as 45 minutes for my jobs to run … Continue reading

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Protected: The 1,200-mile week

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Why I Live In New York City

Cephas & Wiggins Originally uploaded by kenf225 Kickass harmonica playing on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Madison Square Park. Drinks with (and, unfortunately, all over) friends at Live Bait. And then night two of the Sheriff Sessions, listening to and … Continue reading

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Protected: Staten Island Gig

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The Sheriff Sessions

Punch Brothers Originally uploaded by kenf225 Last night was the first night of the Sheriff Sessions, one of NYC’s best roots music events. A trio of great NYC bands opened the show, and then headliner Chris Thile (ex-Nickel Creek) took … Continue reading

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Protected: 100 miles

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