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I'm looking forward to the new Bill Callahan album, Woke On A Whaleheart, not only because I have this aching feeling that it's going to be a beautiful piece of work, one that I can relate to and fall in love with, but also because I think it's going to offer excellent sound quality, and I just can't wait to hear it on the hi-fi. This is interesting to me because I never looked forward to an album for its sound quality before. Even when reading our own Stereophile record reviews, I've paid little attention to the number of stars placed besides the "Sonics" heading, except to make…
"I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it."
A wonderful modern-day tall tale.
Observations:
a heap is formed
a streamer ejects
the outgoing jet rises
hits the incoming jet
ends the Kaye effect
a heap is formed
a streamer ejects
the outgoing jet rises
hits the incoming jet
ends the Kaye effect
And it's bee-you-tee-full.
Stereophile's Robert Deutsch will be covering the Montreal Festival Son & Image electronics show starting April 13.
A cardboard listening "room." I'd call it a pod, myself, but in a small space like that surround sound probably is essential. I do dig the look of laminated construction, though.
Mutually agreed cooperation on the disputed NAS drive chassis (it's warm, it vibrates, and it's next to the monitor).
Yeah, it looks cute, but Huckleberry is making his move to take over the whole thing. When he has annoyed Bagheera enough, she'll leave in a huff—or else haul off and smack him. Since he's always up for a ruckus, there's no downside.
On my morning stroll through the intertubes, I hit Freakonomics, as is my wont. Today, Stephen J. Dubner is raving about Jeff Henderson's Cooked. Henderson, the new executive chef at Cafe Bellagio, leaned to cook in prison, where he was incarcerated for dealing crack.
Dubner excerpted a passage on the economics of prison cooking—not the cost per serving of the entrees, but the pay-offs and hidden economics of getting things done. Gosh it's good writing—detailed, tight, and fast-paced. So I went looking for another excerpt and found a nice, long one at abcnews.com. It's even better.
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Alicia Zuckerman has a nice coda on Kurt Vonnegut over at the HufPo. She gets the final word on Vonnegut's epitaph because she actually asked him what he wanted it to be.