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Music Week
Music: Current count 27056 [27020] rated (+36), 370 [359] unrated (+11).PublishedStreamnotes last week, so most of the finds (4 of 5 pictured albums) are already known to you. I wrote there about...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 27090 [27056] rated (+34), 369 [370] unrated (-1).I've been having a lot of trouble thinking of things to listen to, although the list below is still pretty substantial. I finished...
View ArticleEnough Already
I didn't get around to writing up a Weekend Roundup yesterday. I was working on something else (more below) and, as I tweeted last night, I've really gotten sick and tired of this election and its...
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When I woke up this morning, I didn't have the slightest notion that today was the 15th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda hijackings that brought down the World Trade Center. It's not that I don't remember...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 27128 [27090] rated (+38), 374 [369] unrated (+5).Fairly ordinary week here. I've mostly been looking for recent jazz beyond what's come in the mail. I don't think there's any...
View ArticleLooks Like She Blew It
Trump up 44.6% to Clinton's 44.5% in TPM's tracking poll together. Electoral college split 254-242 for Clinton, 42 "tossup" (need 270 to win). I tweeted:Hillary Clinton trailing in TPM tracking poll...
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Mostly writing this today because I have various tabs opened to possibly interesting articles, and it's only a matter of time before my antiquated browser crashes. Better, I think, to note them briefly...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 27153 [27128] rated (+25), 376 [374] unrated (+2).First, I screwed up last night and misnumbered my Weekend Roundup post, so for various technical reasons the link I tweeted last...
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Streamnotes (September 2016)
Lot of jazz below (112 out of 126 new records, 88.9%; also 17 out of 23 old music, 73.9%). A big part of that was my decision to try to track down all of the jazz albums on Downbeat's Readers Poll...
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I don't plan on watching Monday's first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I'm not someone still trying to figure out where I stand on those two, and I can't conceive of anything either...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 27183 [27153] rated (+30), 381 [376] unrated (+5).Most of this week's list already appeared in last week'sStreamnotes. Since then I saw Steven Colbert's show-long interview with...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 27198 [27183] rated (+15), 390 [381] unrated (+9).Low rated count. Best explanation I can offer is that I took big chunks from a couple days to work on a drainage project in the...
View ArticleGolden Oldies
Finished copying theJazz Prospecting reviews into a work file that will eventually be folded into the Jazz Consumer Guide book(s). Next obvious step is to move on toRhapsody Streamnotes -- a much...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 27244 [27198] rated (+46), 401 [390] unrated (+11).High rated count, partly inflated by finding some old grades in old notebooks that had never been registered in the database (see...
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Continuing along as I dig through my oldnotebooks for jazz reviews. Here's my post from April 11, 2003, noting what turned out to be the high point of American triumphalism for the entire Iraq...
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Realizing I wasn't going to find much time, I started this early in the week, and added things when I noticed them without making much in the way of a systematic search. Since my last Weekend Roundup,...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 27263 [27244] rated (+19), 412 [401] unrated (+11).Rated count back way down again -- it was 15 two weeks ago, then jumped up to fairly normal 33 last week (not counting a...
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Continuing my slog through theonline notebook, picking up in mid-2004, just in time for another presidential election -- I think this was the one that Matt Taibbi called "The Stupid Season," fully...
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Music: Current count 27272 [27263] rated (+9), 418 [412] unrated (+6).One of those weeks that was just blown to shreds, as I came down with a stomach bug on Wednesday, spent a couple days pretty much...
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More tidbits from myonline notebook, which starting in 2005 became an archive and expansion of my blog.On February 15, 2005, I wrote about North Korea's newly developed nuclear weapons, and the...
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