Category: Musicology

  • Democratic party weblog

    The Democratic National Committee has started a blog called Kicking Ass at the democrats.org site. I guess it beats faxing the talking points around, and I like the way they’ve jumped in with both feet. There’s no calendar or forward-and-back links from individually archived entries, so I can’t tell when the first post was. Most…

  • I cried tonight

    I was watching the Frontline documentary on how 9/11 impacted the religious faith of various people involved either directly (such as those who lost loved ones) or indirectly (the rest of us who were terrified by the diabolical spectacle) when a Conservative rabbi started singing a text with the intonations of a cantor, as if…

  • Bomb threat at Moscone

    Well, I was sitting next to Ross Mayfield and across from Tim Bray in the speaker’s lounge at Seybold when they told us that a bomb threat had been called in to Moscone North and South (where the Oracle conference is taking place) so just to be safe they asked us to evacuate Moscone West…

  • Warren Zevon, R.I.P.

    Warren Zevon died Sunday, September 7, at the untimely age of 56. You know one of the things I most admire about the guy is that when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer the first thing he did was hit the studio and record a new fucking album. The man who wrote “I’ll Sleep When…

  • Profile of Dean's blogger-in-chief

    This Boston.com article (A hired gun who muses with fingertips) profiles Matt Gross, who first proposed to the Dean campaign that they should enliven their official web presence with a weblog. Incidentally, the Dean campaign if looking for a sysadmin (with a well specified skillset) willing to move to Burlington, VT, and work long hours…

  • Very, very greasy

    David Lindley’s ’80s band El Rayo-X reunited recently for some shows and I saw them play last night at the Fillmore with Michael Z. and Suki. What a great show! So many highlight, I’m not sure where to start. Perhaps the biggest crowd pleaser was “She Took Off My Romeo” during which Lindley had the…

  • Yowza! (temblor)

    I just bolted off the couch when a very sudden sharp earthquake (rather vertical in its motion) flashed through our house. It was followed by some rapid juddering that shook the chandelier. Apparenlty it was about a 5.0 (felt like more) and centered near Piedmont (no wonder, that’s just a mile or so from here).…

  • 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

  • Vantage

  • Metamemewatch: Minding the Planet

    Paul Ford’s Ftrain is in full effect and from it I ended up at Nova Spivack’s Minding the Planet, wherein he asks the musical question Do You Like This Blog? Help Me Spread It Like a Virus!… If you like this blog – help me spread it like a virus to others who might like…

  • Do not walk on pipe

  • Blue sky at Point Molate

  • His built-in iPod

    Browsing cheesedog (aka, Garret Keogh to those antiwebbers out there reading this), I found a link to the dependable Onion (I have an iPod… in my mind) which cracked me up so hard it inspired this unfortunate urge to post a link to an Onion bit, in lockstep, no doubt, with hundreds of other webloggers.…

  • Sunbaked parapet

  • Building is enormous basket

    Longaberger makes baskets, and their building is a 16x scale model of one of their more popular products.

  • Diversity in the real world

    In People Like Us, noninsane conservative columnist David Brooks writes Maybe somewhere in this country there is a truly diverse neighborhood in which a black Pentecostal minister lives next to a white anti-globalization activist, who lives next to an Asian short-order cook, who lives next to a professional golfer, who lives next to a postmodern-literature…