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Saturday night, Jeff Wong, my wife, and I went to see the Holmes Brothers at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. Wowsers! State of Grace has been one of the most-played discs I bought in 2007, so we expected to be entertained.

We were completely knocked out. The Holmes Brothers came to play and within minutes of hitting the stage, Wendell Holmes, Sherman Holmes, and Popsy Dixon turned a bar full of jaded New Yorkers into a down-home tent meeting. They ended the set with a medley of "Amazing Grace," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," and "Jesus on the Mainline" that had people speaking…

"It's getting cold again," he said.

"Yes."

There's a point on Third Street where it bends into Newark Avenue. You've got Pop Merrigan's to your left and some unremarkable storefronts to your right. Right at that point, where Third bends into Newark, we were stopped by several old, wooden chairs, haphazardly set out on the narrow sidewalk. They were for sale. Yellow light poured forth from a storefront which, in my experience, had always been hidden by…

It requires more, but we're strapped for time. We were supposed to ship to prepress yesterday. "Recommended Components" always ships late, and no matter how careful we are in our proofing, there are always&#151always&#151mistakes. John caught errors that I didn't catch, I caught errors that Elizabeth didn't catch, Elizabeth caught errors that John didn't catch, and round and round and round, but there are always more errors.…

"I want my Maypo!!!"

To paraphrase the Doobie Brothers, what was once ridiculous has now become absurd. To the Nth power.

Here's the deal with Sony's latest effort to fight piracy, the piracy by the way that they allowed occur in the first place, an idea straight from the boys in accounting and legal: Platinum Musicpass. You go into a Best Buy, Target or Fred's and purchase a credit card with fancy artwork for each album you want to download in what the press release calls, "high-quality MP3 files." Each card costs…

We keep our supply of back issues in a medium-size storage room. Inside, there is the smell of glossy paper, cardboard boxes, and good work. After we've shipped an issue…

You should watch this show. That's it. Just watch it.

I feel like Art Dudley, I feel like Sam Tellig.

I'll be sure to watch this Sunday's episode. I will sit on my orange couch…

"My Grammy ballot. I don't even know who most of these punks are," he said.

"Like who?"

"Any of them, other than the classical section. I guess Bob [Ludwig] and Greg [Calbi] know who these people are, since they mastered most of them, but I have no clue about any of the popular stuff."

"I've always suspected that's why the Grammies seem so removed from reality," I said. "I reckon half the people in…

And, just in case you missed it, here's a lovely assessment of what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi actually did for the Beatles, especially Lennon. Having never met Lennon, it's fatuous for me to say that some of Michael Gerber's insights ring true, but this line seems like it must be: "John Lennon always needed two things: something to do, and something to fight."