Category: Music

  • The dream plus 40 years

    I Have a Dream, “the last great city-on-the-hill vision of America that we’ve received.”

  • Clouds, reflections, and robots

    I just posted a photo album called Robots over at TypePad. It starts from downtown Oakland where I couldn’t resist taking some pictures of clouds. Longtime readers will know I find the sky endlessly amazing, especially out here at the western edge of things. On BART, the reflections from the door windows likewise drew me…

  • Transmigration of the memes

    For a while I’ve been posting trendy idea-oids and “news of the weird”-type links-with-commentary to Meme List. This was meant to be a stake in the sand for a MemeWatch site where we’d do fun GoogleHack kind of tricks to track the rise and fall of phrases like “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” and so…

  • Warren Zevon on Hunter Thompson

    Nice VH-1 interview with Warren Zevon on making music in the face of death, witty observations about Hunter S. Thompson and more: The first exchange we ever had was about 10 years ago, when my daughter and I arrived in Aspen. I said, “Dr. Thompson, I’ve got the most terrible headache you can ever imagine.…

  • The ebb and flow

  • Hot pizza