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Music Week
Music: Current count 25911 [25871] rated (+40), 383 [388] unrated (-5).Running a day late here: internet went down ("for maintenance," says Cox) last night, which not only prevent posting, it also...
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Music: Current count 25944 [25911] rated (+33), 381 [383] unrated (-2).Didn't bother with a Weekend Roundup yesterday. I figure there will be plenty of opportunities in the future, and had something...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (December 2015)
I actually froze this file and opened a new one back on Sunday, figuring 144 records was enough for any one column (maybe more than enough). So while I've been busy as a bee between then and now,...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25987 [25944] rated (+43), 394 [381] unrated (+13).The Tenth Annual Jazz Critics Poll, which Francis Davis started at the Village Voice, then after the Voice tanked kept going...
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Music: Current count 26017 [25987] rated (+30), 396 [394] unrated (+2).Ratings down a bit due to the holidays -- I cooked traditional family fare for my sister and nephew on Xmas Eve, then next day...
View ArticleHow to Fish
Thought I'd share a recipe I evolved for two since I tried it last night, working mostly from memory and hunch, and it came out marvelous. My original idea was to write it up and mail it to a cousin,...
View ArticleSaudi Kills
I've missed doing this the last couple of weeks. I've had other things to focus on, and figured I'd wind up writing pretty much the same things about the same outrages when I returned as I would have...
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Music: Current count 26050 [26017] rated (+33), 395 [396] unrated (-1).One New Year's resolution that I've been able to keep is that I stop adding records to the previous year's list, so that now that...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (January 2016)
For the last few weeks, I've been obsessing over year-end lists, aggregating hundreds of polls, not so much to see who comes outon top as to discover interesting items on the fringes. Most of what...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26199 [26163] rated (+36), 412 [408] unrated (+4).Nearly everything here appeared in yesterday's Rhapsody Streamnotes -- the eagle-eyed will note that the exception is saxophonist...
View ArticlePost-Iowa
Postscript added [Feb. 6].No Weekend Roundup last Sunday, as I was trying to tie up the loose ends on aRhapsody Streamnotes column. Since then the ridiculous spectacle of the Iowa Caucuses happened....
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I threw this together rather quickly, but here are some links of interest this week: Thomas Frank: It's not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26231 [26199] rated (+32), 421 [412] unrated (+9).I don't have much to say this week. Most of the records below are still 2015 releases (11 are 2016, only one of those non-jazz)....
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I didn't really want to let myself get sucked into another post-election commentary like last week'sPost-Iowa, but enough links have popped up to be worth a brief post.On the Democratic side, it's...
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Music: Current count 26267 [26231] rated (+36), 422 [421] unrated (+1).Started to write a Weekend Roundup yesterday, but I lost a big chunk of time when we went out for shopping and sushi, and another...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26298 [26267] rated (+32), 420 [422] unrated (-2).Skipped Weekend Roundup again. Instead, I cooked up a relatively simple two-dish dinner for my wife's birthday (also my nephew's):...
View ArticleBook Roundup
Seems like these book blurb columns involve a lot of "hurry up and wait," or vice versa. Last one was August 9, and before that August 4, August 1, and July 31, 2015. At that point I was so backlogged...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (February 2016)
I suppose I should be looking past 2015 by now, but 77 (of 120, so 64.2%) new records below were 2015 releases. Also, all but three of the 43 2016 releases are jazz, almost all from my incoming queue....
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Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in South Carolina by a good deal more than I expected (73.5% to 26.0%). This has finally given the media carte blanche to harp on the viability of Sanders' campaign...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26339 [26298] rated (+41), 410 [420] unrated (-10).Most of this week's haul has already appeared inRhapsody Streamnotes, if you noticed. I was rather bummed when I posted a link on...
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