Was That What I Think It Was?

Sunday, April 13 at 3pm
West Houston Street

Oh, Come Now

Certainly I can't be the first person to have noticed this.

Now I REALLY Don't Know How to Fill Out Those Forms

I'm referring to the forms that ask you to list your ethnicity. I usually put "Other," just to push us one nanometer closer to a post-racial society. And now I read in The Rest Is Noise, by Alex Ross, a confusing description of the music scene in New York during the 1920s and 30s, when "Jewish, African-American, and even Caucasian composers were working shoulder to shoulder, trading ideas, borrowing themes, plundering the past, and feeding off the present." Did I miss something?

Today Only

The 60-Second Man Gets It Done in 50 Seconds.

The Eli Interviews: March 14, 2008.

Listen.

What's He Still Doing Here?

(That's funny, I remember asking the same question during the last year of Clinton's second term.)

I mean, I'd be in favor of letting Spitzer stay, if it weren't for the fact I've started a campaign to expand the list of deadly sins, with Hypocrisy taking the #1 spot.

It is hard not to think of his Lt. Governor's legal blindness as some kind of metaphoric wish fulfillment.

Update: I guess he reads The Next Best Thing. Next order of business: anyone want to start a band with me called Client 9?

The Return of the 60-Second Man

Today, Episode 3: "Subway Mozart!"
Heard at 10:41pm, February 29, 2008
on the downtown #1 train approaching 42nd St.

Henry Louis Gates, Chris Rock and I

going mano a mano (a mano) in the Guardian.

Although they probably don't know it yet.