Archive for August, 2010
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Moroccan TV Commercials
I have been trying to keep very quiet the past few days, as I have found myself increasingly disgusted by the extremism back home. It is as if we have turned ourselves into the exact mirror image of what we believe is so radical about “them”.
Ironically, during this same period, I have spent a few […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Adding to the List
I have recently finished reading The Sultan’s Shadow: One Family’s Rule at the Crossroads of East and West by Christiane Bird and Geoff Dyer’s ode to Jazz, But Beautiful. The Sultan’s Shadow was slow at the beginning, often with great emphasis placed on things that had little interest to me (like the details of the […]
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
The Threat of the 14th Amendment
The Colbert Report
Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
3 Comments » - Posted in Essays by eric
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
New Acquisitions
Here are some recent additions to my Jazz library:
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious in Action: Recorded Live at the Five Spot Café
Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan: Two Minds
The Gigi Gryce and Donald Bird Jazz Laboratory and the Cecil Taylor Quartet: At New Port
Anthony Braxton: Six Monk’s Compositions
Steve Lacy: Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk and The Straight […]
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
A Tautology
From Tom Toles.
