Wes Phillips

Greg Sandow has written three long posts about why this might be the end of the classical music era. The link below takes you to the third, but you can scroll down the page and read them in order.

Erstwhile Stereophile scribe and Audio editor Corey Greenberg has a new mission: To bring back the manly art of wet-shaving with a badger hair brush and a "real" razor. No matter how obscure the subject, Greenberg's always an entertaining read.

______ "who receive electric shocks carry the device around in a backpack and wear the electrodes 24 hours a day; some are also monitored at all times by at least one Rotenberg Center employee."

Philip K. Dick, far from being too paranoid to be prophetic, might not have been paranoid enough. After all, even my comments section makes you prove you're not a robot (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and there really are cameras everywhere for our protection (Through a Scanner Darkly). Oh yes, and legislation aimed at protecting us from terror may have invaded our privacy (Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said).

Jake Shimabukuro is the Jimi Hendrix of ukulele. You laugh—but listen to this guy!

Bagheera detects an interloper.