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40 Years On

I don't know about you, but I got a little bit bored with the wall-to-wall coverage of the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's last week. So why am I linking to Jody Rosen's article on the subject? Because it actually has something to say and says it well.

A Shander fer de Goyim

Michael Chabon on The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Yiddish, and being exiled from exile.

I've been on the fence about this novel. I loved Kavalier and Clay and Wonder Boys, but The Final Solution, not so much. This interview gives me hope.

Tour de France

A beginner's guide.

Happiness is a warm...MP3

You gotta hand it to The New York Times; they do try and cover the audio industry. And when it comes to dumbing it down, they truly aren't fucking around. Rather than have to read an article from last week's Circuits section on how MP3's might someday sound better, A Quest for That Warm Sound of Old (June 5, 2007), which was printed just above a piece entitled Making Tunes a Fixture on the Patio (snaring more Jersey readers is obviously an NYT priority) here are the some beauties, salient or otherwise. "The more you turn it up, the punchier it sounds…" "…tries to sweeten digital sound by…

Roky's Back!

And his elevator goes all the way up, not just to the 13th floor.

F1 Confidential

Heikki Kovalainen gives us the driver's perspective on the Spanish Grand Prix.

Forensic Anthropology

Gladiator graveyard gives it up.

Happy Birthday JA

It's Johnny's birthday
It's Johnny's birthday
And we would like to wish him all the very best
It's Johnny's birthday
It's Johnny's birthday
And it's so nice to have you back to be our guest.

Right?

WP: You do know tomorrow's his birthday, right?

SM: Now I do! And now that I'm in love with iTunes, I'll make him a mix CD with some of my favorite demo material.

Pub Rock Returns

This 2-CD set sounds essential. This is what we old fogeys used to listen to, young 'uns.