Miscellaneous

Background on how the cover of

Posted on June 13, 2008
Background on how the cover of Blood on the Tracks was shot and processed. (Via Dreamtime.)

I had a mediation with this guy

Posted on June 12, 2008
I had a mediation with this guy a month ago.

Listlessly scrolling around the

Posted on June 11, 2008
Listlessly scrolling around the dial these past few nights I came across a couple of artists I hadn't thought about in a while. The first was James Taylor-- it's funny to think about how he was once just about as big a name as there was in the biz, and then dropped off the table...

What I think is the saddest part

Posted on June 09, 2008
What I think is the saddest part is that people are still in denial about the energy crisis that we're in. I hear folks say all kinds of dumb stuff about energy costs, but my two favorites are, ?It?ll go back down,? and ?They?ll come up with alternatives to oil...

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I'll take Holland in the Euro Cup.

Posted on June 08, 2008
I'll take Holland in the Euro Cup. I like Rumania's song, though.

I am troubled and puzzled by the

Posted on June 07, 2008
I am troubled and puzzled by the idea that some HRC supporters are having a difficult time coming around to supporting Obama. Although I found her platform and her record profoundly flawed, and although she has been a disappointment as my senator, the idea of Hillary Clinton is not something I have a problem with...

15 Republican Rumors about Barack

Posted on June 06, 2008
15 Republican Rumors about Barack Obama."10. He?s never around when Frozone appears."(Popdose is indispensable.)

Dylan endorses Obama. Well, you

Posted on June 06, 2008
Dylan endorses Obama. Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor."But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...

Submitted without comment. (Found

Posted on June 04, 2008
Submitted without comment. (Found on No Smoking in the Skull Cave.)

Howard Dean's leadership of the

Posted on June 03, 2008
Howard Dean's leadership of the Democratic party seems to have accomplished several subtle goals-- and if the Beltway insiders are whining, maybe what that tells us is that they still don't understand what Dean has set out to do. First, for the first time that I can recall, every primary has been contested, and every primary has mattered...

The Bo Diddley beat is so primal

Posted on June 02, 2008
The Bo Diddley beat is so primal that it's a little odd to think of it as having been invented, but it was, and it's inventor died today.Buddy Holly?s ?Not Fade Away,? Johnny Otis?s ?Willie and the Hand Jive,? Steppenwolf?s ?Magic Carpet Ride,? The Who?s ?Magic Bus,? Bruce Springsteen?s ?She?s the One?, U2?s ?Desire?-- think about the songs that Bo Diddley didn't get credit for writing...

Women's Lib Arrived on Bicycle

Posted on May 30, 2008
Women's Lib Arrived on Bicycles.

I'm sure he was more surprised

Posted on May 30, 2008
I'm sure he was more surprised than anyone, but once he became governor David Paterson seems to have had a pretty clear notion of how he wanted to run things. Here is an interesting piece on his judicial appointments to date.

How much discomfort would you go

Posted on May 29, 2008
How much discomfort would you go through rather than see Sex and the City?

At Lawyers, Guns & Money, a discussion

Posted on May 27, 2008
At Lawyers, Guns & Money, a discussion on the perils of an elected judiciary.

We had a party for the board and

Posted on May 24, 2008
We had a party for the board and staff of SqueakyWheel at Big Pink last week, which turned out rather well, I think. I didn't really have a clear vision of the menu until a couple of days before-- all I knew I was that I wanted to smoke a bunch of salmon, because that could tend to itself pretty much, while I did other stuff...

I despise Surrogate's Court, and

Posted on May 23, 2008
I despise Surrogate's Court, and never go there. I have said for years that it exists to concentrate graft adn to steal the pennies from dead men's eyes, but my witicism pales compared with Robert F. Kennedy's remark. He called Surrogates "a political toll booth exacting tribute from widows and orphans...

When I worked for Elinore Klein

Posted on May 22, 2008
When I worked for Elinore Klein she would sometimes teasingly mock my efforts at legal research on those occasions when I cited a case that was ten or twenty years old. "Where'd you find this?" she'd scoff, "One Hun?". New York's legal reporters-- the books that decisions were published in-- used to be named for the editor that compiled them...

Although I have one ("26.2") I

Posted on May 22, 2008
Although I have one ("26.2") I have come to think in recent days that the white oval country tag that has become ubiquitous has past its sell-by date. Nine times out of ten I can't figure out where they are supposed to be from, or what they are supposed to mean and while I suppose that's part of the game when I see one it is a little like being confronted by a rebus...

EGA has observed that when you

Posted on May 21, 2008
EGA has observed that when you ask someone about their tattoo they can tell you a long story about the significance of whatever it is, but they can't tell you why they went and got inked in the first place. "Because it's awesome" doesn't count, and "Because I think it's pretty" is ridiculous...

Congratulations to CLA, who learned

Posted on May 20, 2008
Congratulations to CLA, who learned this morning that she has been accepted into the Edgar Fellows Honors Program at Geneseo. It's pretty impressive to pull that off on top of a challenging first year-- the program admits twenty students a year, ten as incoming freshman and ten as rising sophomores...

Interesting article on what went

Posted on May 19, 2008
Interesting article on what went wrong with the Clinton campaign. "Running as the incumbent" and not having a start to finish plan in place are probably two different ways of saying the same thing, but it is still surprising that someone with her experience-- and detail oriented background-- would approach the project in that way...

I'm not a huge fan of Steve Banko,

Posted on May 17, 2008
I'm not a huge fan of Steve Banko, who is one of those guys that reckons that because he was in the military his opinion has greater value than it would otherwise, but from time to time he makes a valid point. His "My View" column in yesterday's Buffalo News is one of those times...

Bob Dylan's "Theme Time Radio Hour"

Posted on May 16, 2008
Bob Dylan's "Theme Time Radio Hour" has an old-timey sound- hardly surprising when you consider that 50% of the material was recorded before 1960. Makes sense in the context of his life and work, too. What did Bob listen to when he was growing up, after all? Buddy Holly was the fresh new sound on the radio, and the airwaves would have been filled with a lot of the country sounds he still favors...

The bench and bar in Britain want

Posted on May 15, 2008
The bench and bar in Britain want to update their look. This is a very bad plan, as the illustration accompanying this post demonstrates. It is true that the horsehair wig Brit barristers wear resembles a dead cat. It is also true that the English legal tradition, and the quality of English lawyering in general have a legendary status that gives them the sort of brand name recognition that is unique in the world...

David Remnick's list of the top

Posted on May 14, 2008
David Remnick's list of the top 100 jazz sides. 28 are on my shelves, in part because Remnick over-relies on box sets; more notably, there are 20 artists that aren't represented as leaders on the list but not in my collection. The nice thing about music is that there are always subjects for further research.

The Champions League final is May

Posted on May 13, 2008
The Champions League final is May 21, Chelsea v. Man U, the first time the match will feature two English teams. Because I am a proud American, any reference to Manchester United must include a comparison to the New York Yankees, and this article presents Chelsea as scrappy underdogs in the tradition of the Mets...

I like cartoons, but what I really

Posted on May 09, 2008
I like cartoons, but what I really like is the over-analyzation of cartoons. I also like comics that are waaaay too over-analyzing, like this fine example, from Living Between Wednesdays.. Of course, what makes this panel so terrifically great is that it shows Cyclops doing what Cyclops does better than almost anything: being consumed with self-pity...

From Esquire, The 75 Skills Every

Posted on May 08, 2008
From Esquire, The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master. 75 is a lot, but I think I'm okay. (Via Flutterby.)

I'm not seeing the breakdown by

Posted on May 06, 2008
I'm not seeing the breakdown by district, but if Lake County isn't in, I don't think HRC can claim to have won Indiana. As I write this I am listening to her speech, and I think she knows she has lost. She's running for VP right now.

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