Book Roundup, Part Deux
This is the second collection of forty of my little book blurbs in several days. Scratch file currently has 84 more, so I could very well dump two more of these next week. Not as important as the ones...
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Some scattered links I squirreled away during the previous week: John Cassidy: Paul Ryan in Wonderland: Chapter Six: Loosely following Brad DeLong's quote: Having wandered back into writing about U.S....
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21164 [21131] rated (+33), 586 [602] unrated (-16).Healthy rated count, split between Jazz Prospecting below and Rhapsody Streamnotes, which may come out late this week or early...
View ArticleTen Years of Infamy
Ten years ago this week George W. Bush launched his war against Iraq. He was almost solely responsible for the act, at least in the sense that had he decided not to go to war he would have met...
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The Apocalypse
In my books research, I came across a new anti-Obama hate book, David Harsanyi's Obama's Four Horsemen: The Disasters Unleashed by Obama's Reelection (2013, Regnery). The book description (at Amazon)...
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Some scattered links I squirreled away during the previous week: John Cassidy: Whither the GOP? A Republican Report Worth Reading: Well, not really. Focus groups show the Party to be...
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Music: Current count 21188 [21164] rated (+24), 595 [586] unrated (+9).Relatively light week, or maybe just a lot of distractions. One of my cousins, George Edward Hull, died so I attended to various...
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A Downloader's Diary (28): March 2013
by Michael TatumIt would be downright unprofessional for a rock critic to blame his occasional unpunctuality on "writer's block," but every now and then it certainly does feel that way. Then again, as...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (March 2013)
After a short February, up to 56 records this month. Most of the good ones were first identified elsewhere -- cf. Jason Gubbels on Bomba Estéreo; Christgau flagged Monroe, Musgraves, Nash, Overall, and...
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Music: Current count 21217 [21188] rated (+29), 591 [595] unrated (-4).Average week. Blah, blah, blah. Some new stuff in the queue may be promising, but the old stuff I've been playing (not to mention...
View ArticleMidweek Roundup
Missed Weekend Roundup on Sunday -- was working on another post that didn't quite work out -- but I hit a few scattered links today that I might as well post now. Chris Hedges: The Treason of the...
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Recycled Goods (107): April 2013
Short month. Not only did I not work on this much during the month, I put virtually no time into topping it off. Given more focus, it might have grown more. I noticed the Leon Thomas sets in my...
View ArticleNo More Mister Nice Politics
Occasionally I look at No More Mister Nice Blog, and a couple posts on practical politics caught my interest. One asks, Why Gay Marriage and Not Other Issues? Indeed, we're suddenly seeing an...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21257 [21217] rated (+40), 605 [591] unrated (+14).The huge rated count is the result of working on May's 1960s-themed Recycled Goods, using Rhapsody rather obsessively to quickly...
View ArticleMusic Year/No Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21275 [21257] rated (+18), 606 [605] unrated (+1).Not enough Jazz Prospecting to bother with this week -- just three notes in the scratch file. Can't point to the distraction of...
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Some links and comments. Originally started last week, then postponed to mid-week, then a bit later: Gerry Adams: Thatcher's Legacy in Ireland: On the late UK prime minister: Margaret Thatcher was a...
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Weekend Roundup
Some scattered links of special interest. Caught most of them today, which shows it isn't all that hard to find trouble these days: Joe Conason: Protecting the 'Second Amendment Rights' of Thugs and...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21302 [21275] rated (+27), 618 [606] unrated (+12).Big week in that I have three -- count 'em, three -- A- records, but the inside story is that two of them took an awful lot of...
View ArticleBook Roundup, Part Drei
Still trying to unpack the overhang accumulated up to the March 14 post, with a second installment on March 16, although this one is delayed about as much as I should normally do -- one result is that...
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A Downloader's Diary (29): April 2013
by Michael TatumI'm delighted by the symmetry of touting two pick hits from Mali featuring the ngoni (I'll explain in a minute), both distributed by German imprint Out Here. Unfortunately for me --...
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