Via Marvin over at New Sophists’ Almanac, here’s a bit of news that brings me joy, about the finding of a lost 1957 recording of a Carnegie Hall show performed by Trane and Monk from that mysterious time when they were playing in a band together. I feel like having a party. You can listen to a few tracks at the above NPR link, too! (It’s what I’m doing as I post this, of course.) The photo above is by Don Schlitten.
Month: October 2005
A Riff on Woody Allen Groucho Marx as Quoted By Woody Allen
Didn’t Woody Allen say something to the effect that he had severe misgivings about joining any club that would have him for a member? Well, I’ve got a different take on that. Frankly, I look around and I have misgivings about joining any club that would take certain other people as members. And yes, I know, that’s judgmental. Sorry, but everyone’s judgmental in certain departments. Everyone judges a convicted rapist, for example, or a guy who deals crack to teenagers and gets busted for it. Everyone acknowledges that there are criteria which, within a given culture, such as Western culture, …
CahootsMagazine.com Is Live
For a few weeks I’ve been working pretty close to constantly on this website I’m building for a couple of friends in Saskatoon who’ll be launching an alternative womens’ magazine called Cahoots. Well, after much painstaking work, backtracking, studying up on php, and even begging for help from a Canadian woman named Mary, the CahootsMagazine.com website is finally live. The site is powered by WordPress, and is using the Wuhan theme (which, yes, I know means that we have to contribute money to WordPress; it’s on the editor’s list of stuff to do). And it’s almost completely done, by gob. …
My Jeonju Sori Festival Writeup
I recently mentioned the Jeonju Sori Festival and how much I was enjoying it, and how I wanted to write about it, but had been asked to write a piece for translation and inclusion in a Korean magazine. I decided to simply write the magazine piece and post it here — for the time being, unless maybe I can submit it somewhere else — in one shot. Some of the people who attended the festival this year had some pretty negative things to say about it, and I can understand some of their disappointments — although the complaints tended to …
Marry, F—, Kill
I don’t have much to add to this discussion that I happened upon earlier this year, except to say (a) Wow, and (b) the reason horror movies suck is because nobody with this kind of imagination is writing them.
What’s Left To Do This Weekend?
Cook this defrosted chicken. Finish building that magazine website. Re-edit my column for that same magazine. Write a 1300-word piece on the music festival I attended last week for translation and inclusion in a Korean magazine. Clean up, take out my recyclables, and mop my floor. Clean off my hard disk by burning several (maybe a dozen) DVD-ROMs. Call that guy in Seoul who owes me W1,500,000 for the plane ticket I canceled during the summer. And that’s not even mentioning all the stuff I need to do for me, like, you know, read a book, and work on my …
Mayomi
Also via Lifehacker, here’s a very cool site called Mayomi that offers a utility that lets you create a mind map. Useful for self-organization, as well as for teaching writing in the classroom, if you do that sort of thing. Something tells me Cuccu would like it. :)
Planarity.net
Planarity.net is a big timewaster. But now I know you’ll go there anyway. Found at Lifehacker.
Mad Charlie’s Trike Update
For those who know my friend Charlie, who’s cycling round Australia on a recumbent trike right now, you might want to check out his site about the trip. You can also subscribe to his mailing list, and if you’d like to know how, just email me for the info!
Poptrash
Over on the UKMIX forums I found a link to Poptrash, a site built to allow likeminded antifans to bash certain mainstream stars.