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The End of the Year 2013
Robert Christgau's 2013 year-end essay and A-list are available now. I thought I'd start this off by noting the records that made the A-list but didn't get reviewed in his Expert Witness column:Lady...
View ArticleThe David Brooks Problem
At some point during the past decade I came to the conclusion that the single most important economic, political, and social problem we face is growing inequality. The problem it supplanted, preeminent...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22768 [22739] rated (+29), 578 [574] unrated (+4).Sending out the publicists letter maked the last step in decoupling myself from Jazz Prospecting. Got quite a bit of mail today --...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (January 2014 Part 2)
With 75 records done by January 19, I figured it was safe to run two Rhapsody Streamnotes columns this month. The 31st rather snuck up on me, but I wound up with 83 records below, and still held a few...
View ArticleKristallnacht Redux
I finally got around to reading, as opposed to reading about, billionaire Tom Perkins' Wall Street Journal rant about "the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich.'" I was under...
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Weekend Roundup
Some scattered links this week: Jonathan Chait: Wall Street Journal: Okay, Obama Isn't Hitler, But He's Pretty Hitler-y: On the WSJ editorial doubling down on venture capitalist Tom Perkins'...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22805 [22768] rated (+37), 595 [578] unrated (+17).I'm dragging my feet on new jazz -- only five new albums below -- despite having gotten way too much in in the mail this past...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
Some scattered links this week: Uri Avnery: Netanyahu's Pipe Dream: In their neverending search to make peace terms as unpalatable as possible, Israel's right-wing has put a lot of emphasis in...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22850 [22805] rated (+45), 596 [595] unrated (+1).Rated count is very high this week. I've been snowed in all week and have wound up sitting at the computer, listening to old jazz...
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Books
I knew I hadn't done a book thing in quite a while, but was surprised to check up and find the last one was on July 26. To try to force myself to do these things more regularly, I decided to limit them...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (February 2014)
The first (and probably the last) installment for February. New records remain spotty, meanwhile I'm finding lots of old ones to recommend. Just to review, records that previously would have gone into...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22868 [22850] rated (+18), 596 [596] unrated (+0).Wrapped this up on Thursday evening so I would be ready to post it on Monday (assuming Internet access). So everything here...
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A Downloader's Diary (36): February 2014
by Michael TatumA month with no real pick hits encourages me to tell you that if you're going to spend your hard earned money on anything here, go for Babyface/Braxton and the New Mendicants before...
View ArticleMusic Week
Music: Current count 22868 [22868] rated (+0), 596 [596] unrated (+0). In other words, no change. I've been on the road all week. Didn't take any new unrated music with me -- just three travel cases...
View ArticleBack Home
Got back home last night from my long road trip to south Florida. Got as far out as Islamadora in the Keys, but having been to Key West before I didn't figure it was worth the extra effort. Drove 4,551...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22882 [22868] rated (+14), 614 [596] unrated (+18).Only a couple days since I got back from Florida, so not much here. That the quality level is fairly high owes to Michael Tatum,...
View ArticleThe Ukraine Cauldron
I rarely pay any attention to news when I travel, and my recent trip to Florida was no exception. When I left I was vaguely aware of violently repressed anti-Russian (aka "pro-West") protesters in...
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Guns: The Laundry List
I was looking for links for a Weekend Roundup post tomorrow, and came across one in Talking Points Memo about a woman who was killed while doing laundry: a gun fell out of a sock and fired, hitting...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22934 [22882] rated (+52), 611 [614] unrated (-3).I can't say that I'm fully recovered from the Florida trip. For one thing, I still have in front of me a large pile of notes,...
View ArticleMidweek Update
Meant to pull one of these together last Sunday, but I got sidetracked on the many horrors of gun mishaps. Brad DeLong: The "Bush Boom" and the Obama Stagnation: Big chart contrasts the very different...
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