Calm Down
If I find time, I'll do more post-election links tomorrow, but I thought I'd preface them with one from Kevin Drum, We Should Probably All Calm Down a Bit, since I want to quote virtually all of it. He...
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Some scattered links, as usual. But first, the quote of the week comes from Maureen Dowd (of all people): Last time, Obama lifted up the base with his message of hope and change; this time the base...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20679 [20644] rated (+35), 616 [625] unrated (-9).Juggling a lot of things right now, including above-average political blogging, trying to update the metacritic files before...
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In 1947, when the UN attempted to partition Palestine, it allocated the Gaza Strip and adjacent land extending up the Mediterranean coast more than half way to Tel Aviv to the Arab part, simply because...
View ArticleMusic Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20699 [20679] rated (+20), 626 [616] unrated (+10).Don't know what to attribute the low rated count to. I only did enough Jazz Prospecting to keep this week's post alive, the rest...
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Turkey Shoot Invitational 2012
In 1984 and then again every year inclusive from 1988-2005 Robert Christgau published a "Turkey Shoot" edition of his Consumer Guide, almost always in the edition of the Village Voice that came out...
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Some scattered links I collected over the previous week: John Cassidy: Gaza: More Funerals, More Questions: A thoughtful piece putting the small picture in big picture context. As is often the case in...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20724 [20699] rated (+25), 619 [626] unrated (-7).Francis Davis' Jazz Critics Poll (7th Annual) is coming up -- ballots due December 6, if I recall correctly -- so it's time to...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (November 2012)
Held this back to let the Thanksgiving Day Turkey Shoot run first: that way the Jason Aldean review below would be new, instead of recycled (like here). Also thinking I might pluck more turkeys from...
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Some scattered links I squirreled away during the previous week: William Astore: Generals Behaving Badly: Among other things, this answers one question I've been wondering about: how damn many generals...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20754 [20724] rated (+30), 615 [619] unrated (-4).After two straight sub-30 weeks, seems like I broke out of a slump, not that the net effect is much different. More (and better)...
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Recycled Goods (102): December 2012
Aside from two Rodney Kendrick albums, I've taken a break from the last couple months' practice of raiding the old unplayed shelves. Didn't really plan it that way: the month snuck up on me with just a...
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A Downloader's Diary (25): December 2012
by Michael TatumMy grandmother had no idea I wrote a music blog -- by the time I began writing "A Downloader's Diary" in August of 2010, she had been for all practical purposes permanently silenced by...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20786 [20754] rated (+32), 592 [615] unrated (-23).Made a big dent in the new jazz queue, even a few vocal albums. With next to nothing incoming, I even feel like I'm liquidating...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20816 [20786] rated (+30), 583 [592] unrated (-9).Had a scare in the rated count when an editing mishap caused the count to drop, despite what felt like a lot of effort. Took a...
View ArticleMusic Week/No Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20844 [20816] rated (+28), 585 [583] unrated (+2).Taking a couple weeks off from Jazz Prospecting, partly because I made a big push the last couple weeks to cram in as much new...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (December 2012)
These monthly installments seem to be drifting ever later in the month. This month the big problem has been trying to wrap up the year in jazz on a slightly tighter schedule than Pazz & Jop. Aside...
View ArticleMusic Week/No Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20874 [20844] rated (+30), 586 [585] unrated (+1).Added a couple new jazz reviews to the draft, but still not enough new Jazz Prospecting to bother with. Rated count mostly...
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Recycled Goods (104): January 2012
Sort of pulled this one out of a hat. Ten days, maybe two weeks, ago all I had was a tiny little Mac Gollehon review, which as it turns out I've held back to February -- isn't that interesting, or...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20909 [20874] rated (+35), 586 [586] unrated (0).Skipped two weeks, so first Jazz Prospecting since December 17. Not sure how regular this will be in the near future, but when I do...
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