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Who'd a thunk it?!
It just goes to show, you never know <I>what</I> lurks in some men's souls. White House press spokesman Tony Snow playing a not-at-all-terrible blues flute. For the video (via YouTube and Matt Yglesias' blog), click <A HREF="http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/06/your_moment_of_…;.
All Your Table Belong to Us
Huckleberry, on the other hand, just brazens it out. <I>What table? Oh, the one beneath me? Are you sure that counts? Well, I was tired of sitting here anyway.</I>
Not a Table
Bagheera, like all cats, is a lawyer. <I>It's not a table, it's a counter, in the sun—in the cattery.</I>
Landfall of the Tub Toys
Those <A HREF="http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070428/bob9.asp">rubber duckies</A> oceanographers have been tracking since 1992 are about to make landfall in the UK. Not the first time Old Blighty has been menaced by an armada.
Award Winners
The Jazz Journalists Association, a group of mainly New York-based jazz critics and writers, handed out its 2007 awards Thursday afternoon. Here are the winners, followed in parentheses by the musician that I voted for in each category:
The Entry Level
A few things contributed:
The Sound of Silence
"The same acoustic silence, embedded in two different excerpts, can be perceived dramatically differently," writes Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis in an article in the June issue of <I>Music Perception</I>.
More Pepper?
<I>Living In Stereo</I> argues that, far from being the best Beatles album <I>SPLHCB</I> was the worst . . . least best . . . um, not greatest non-soundtrack album.
The Cavern Club at 50
"A stinking, rat-infested cesspit that would never be tolerated now." And your point is . . . ?