Discovered while adding album art to the podGoober, this non sequitur: Customers who bought Boulez conducting Stravinsky also seem to have an affinity for Sgt. Pepper. One wonders if Sgt. Pepper is one of those super-nodes, like Kevin Bacon or Paul Erdos.
One thing that frustrated me in the creation of smart playlists on my new podGoober was the apparent inability to use both “ands” and “ors” for logical grouping of music: like “music by the Supremes or Frank Zappa” and “hasn’t been played in a week”. The iTunes software lets you “and” various criteria or “or” …
I have a bit of a quandary. Regular Inkstain readers will know of my podGoober Project, wherein I load all music I own into my new Portable Music Device, in the process listening to everything. I’m pretty close to completing it – down to the last few CDs, and a pretty marginal group it is. …
From Robbert Heederik’s web page on Michael Kenyon, The Illinois Enema Bandit, we find an advertisement for Johnny Cochran’s law firm, specializing in theft/armed robbery. No mention of whether Cochran defends enema cases, though the legend suggests Kenyon’s odd predilection was not, in and of itself, a crime.
I’ve always liked relics. I don’t remember whose house we were at Dec. 11, 1976, but it was our ritual to gather to watch Saturday Night Live. I do remember the episode: the killer Christmas trees and the horrifyingly hilarious holiday carole: “Let’s Kill Gary Gilmore for Christmas.” And Santi-Wrap. It must stand as one …
reading 1: Andrew Dessler’s Prometheus post on scientific uncertainty and the making of policy sparked a good discussion. And a copy of his new book, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change, with Edward Parson, arrived over the weekend. Good so far. reading 2: Back when I first started thinking about drought in the …
I tried to write a blues song once. It went something like this: Well it’s floodin’ down in Texas. All the telephone lines are down. Yeah it’s floodin’ down in Texas. All the telephone lines are down. I’ve been tryin’ to reach my baby To tell her to bring the patio furniture in.
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