The Guardian reports on Susie Dent’s publication of a list of 101 years worth of “buzzwords”:
Every year has its buzzword (“a word or expression from a particular subject area that has become fashionable by being used a lot, especially on television and in the newspapers”) and a new book lists 101 of them, one for [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
October 27th, 2004
WNUR Jazz Show, 21 October 2004
Once again, I brought a few things from home that play fast and loose with the label “jazz”, particularly the great Haruna Ishola’s Nigerian apala music. We’re not here to toe any lines, folks.
The new live David Murray/Kahil El’Zabar record isn’t bad, although the sound quality is pretty rough. Not unprecedented for small-budget [...]
October 17th, 2004
Credit Where Credit is Due
While surfing the net today, I came across a collection of jazz resources at Columbia University. It has a couple of interesting things like close analysis of Lonely Woman and Haitian Fight Song, with audio links directly into relevant segments of the songs.
It also has a little page for “Jazz History” which reproduces Art [...]
October 17th, 2004
WNUR Jazz Show, 14 October 2004
This week’s show broke into a few big blocks. The first hour or so was on the mellow and almost ambient side. It’s a little hard to start the show that way now that there’s a hip-hop program on before me — normally I’d want some tidier sonic “flow” — but I like [...]
October 13th, 2004
Voter Payback
I’ve always thought it would be great if voters could get something as a reward for displaying their voting receipt on election day. I’m not talking about vote buying, but just some modest rewards for people doing their civic duty. Like a free cup of coffee or a donut or something like that.
Well, [...]
October 13th, 2004
WNUR Jazz Show, 7 October 2004
I was teased by the “Don Cherry featuring Ornette Coleman and Steve Lacy” disc, which turned out to be just a collection of music from other albums. Still good music, but I thought it was something other than it turned out to be.
I don’t know the story behind it, but I was curious to [...]
October 3rd, 2004
WNUR Jazz Show, September 30 2004
I would say that Gamelan is good 5 am music. The whole 5 o’clock hour was generally on a pretty nice and mellow vibe, which is particularly appropriate now that I’m riding my bike to the station instead of driving — no stop at White Hen for coffee! Although it was a good [...]
October 3rd, 2004
World’s Most Annoying Bug (at the moment)
For some time now, Apple’s Safari web browser has had this bug which drives me crazy. When filling out a form in a “pop-up” window, if you type shift-tab (to go back one field), the browser crashes immediately.
I often leave a bunch of windows open for later reading, especially when I’m working through my [...]
October 1st, 2004
You Call That Leading?
Joe in politricks
In the “Whitewash As Public Service”, published in the October Harper’s, Benjamin DeMott writes a scathing critique of the 9/11 Commission Report, a document which was released to a lot of positive commentary and, amazingly enough for a government document, brisk sales as well.
In summary, DeMott documents how the report attempts to dole out blame [...]