Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Goldilocks, red dwarfs, and arsenic: are we any closer to finding extraterrestrial life?

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http://www.freshwallpapers.info Three recent news stories have increased the buzz about the likelihood of there being extraterrestrial li...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

Can Terry Collins turn the Mets around?

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It's a tough call. He did manage a turn-around for the Angels in the late 1990s, taking them from a losing team to one that finished se...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Bulls crush 'Canes in OT; Boise State unhorsed.

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My alma mater has a way of pleasantly surprising me on the gridiron, as the South Florida Bulls did Saturday with their 23-20 overtime vict...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving is a contested holiday. Enjoy it anyway.

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First off, let's talk turkey. Actually, let's discuss whether we should be eating turkey at all. Back in the early 1980s, Calvin T...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

College football update: Harvard wins The Game, but not the Ivy; Sunshine State stays in top 25.

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Once again, I missed The Game. Only effete Eastern liberal elitists like me call it The Game. (Wait a minute: I've usually thought of...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Free, "All Right Now"

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Music that I hear while traveling often gets deeply engraved in my memory. In October of 1970, taking my first vacation from my first full-...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Harvard grad leads Bills to first victory, and other football musings.

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On Sunday there was an epic battle of the beatens, with the Buffalo Bills, winless in eight starts going into the game, hosting the 2-6 Detr...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

Client 9, the downfall of Eliot Spitzer.

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Eliot Spitzer's self-inflicted political undoing seemed puzzling to me , as to many. I've also commented about his neckwear . So, I...
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Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, "Even Heroes Have to Die"

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"Many are the beauties of the fall."
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Comments on the election? How about a cute doggie video?

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Actually, this is kind of like me for the past 24 hours or so, chasing after scraps of good news. Here in New York, it has been mostly good...
Monday, November 01, 2010

Why I wanted the Giants to win the World Series

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(By the time I finish this, it may be a done deal--the last I looked the giants had a 3-1 lead going into the eighth.) The last time the Gia...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Mussorgsky-Chernov, "Night on Bald Mountain"

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Boris Berezovsky (the pianist, not to be confused with the exiled oligarch ) does a breathtaking rendition of Chernov's piano transcri...

S. Neil Fujita, 1921-2010

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A year ago last May, I did a post here with the title "Jazz and the Visual Arts" , which included an image of the cover of Charl...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

I just got a robocall telling me to vote for Dino Rossi.

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"Patty Murray is a Washington, D.C. insider", the authoritative male voice said. "She's on Harry Reid's side." R...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Is there a pot of gold in Park Slope, Brooklyn?

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Photo taken by my wife from an office on Garfield Place, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The CalTex Series

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With both the Phillies and Rays eliminated, I lost both teams I could have a strong reason (Tampa is my old home town; Pennsylvania my nati...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Video of bike ride across the Brooklyn Bridge

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I've posted several times before about my almost daily walks over the Brooklyn Bridge and back, including documenting one such, on a ch...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Classic Dylan, for the first time.

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Five days from now, on October 19, Columbia Records will release a "Bootleg Series" two CD set of early Bob Dylan recordings, The ...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Amygdaloids, "Brainstorm", with Lenny Kaye and Steve Wynn

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I've posted before about the Amygdaloids , a band consisting of New York University science professors and graduate students whose rep...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Rays are gone.

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It appears I really did manage to curse both the Twins and the Rays by supporting them in their respective division series. At least I'm...

Braves are out, and I'm sort of sad.

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Yes, I know: not quite a month and a half ago I wrote here that a Yankees-Braves series would leave me with the vain hope that both could l...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Va fa Napoli, hipster.

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I've posted before about culture war in Brooklyn , focusing on the fight between middle income car drivers who live in the outer parts ...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Sahr Ngaujah and company do songs from Fela! at St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn

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This Monday evening, Sahr Ngaujah and the band from the Broadway show Fela! , a tribute to the Nigerian musician and political activist Fel...
Saturday, October 02, 2010

Gliese 581g, the "Goldilocks" planet.

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By now you've likely read the news that an Earth-like planet has been found in the solar system of a nearby star, Gliese 581. According...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Maine, again.

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We made our annual summer visit to Maine a bit late this year. As usual, we stayed with friends in Cape Elizabeth, near Portland, and I took...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

New Marshall Chapman video: "Going Away Party", and a plug for her new book.

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Marshall Chapman is a favorite of mine, so it's always a pleasure to find a new video of her in performance that I can share with you. ...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

College football begins, and a belated farewell to Vic Ziegel.

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The Harvard Crimson are the consensus favorites to win the Ivy crown this year, though the New York Times' Thomas Kaplan likes ...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The worst baseball season ever?

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We're up against stiff competition: strike-blighted 1994, scandal-scarred 1919. OK: I'm seeing this as a Mets fan and Yankee hater, ...

Happy 65th, Van Morrison.

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In the immortal words of Paul Schiffman , "Live forever, kid!"
Monday, August 30, 2010

S-A B is five today!

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Somehow, I've managed to keep cranking out the posts for half a decade . Thanks to all my regular readers (I'm not sure how big an ...