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The "Summer of Love" didn't swing quite as hard—or at least not as ubiquitously—as rumor would have it.
You know how sometimes you can't tell how wonderful an audio component is until after you've removed it from your system?
Same thing with managing editors.
Ours has gone on that weird thing called "maternity leave." Personally, I don't get it. I spoke with Elizabeth on the phone today, and she sounds totally fine. What's up with this? If I were her, I'd get my ass in the office¹.
And you know she was sneaky about that sex stuff. She planned the birth to coincide perfectly with our biggest, most arduous, issue of the year. Fancy that. Nice move, E., leaving me here…
I’ve been cramming to make a deadline all week, much of it spent out of town reporting, but here’s a quick preview of bloggings to come:
First, those in the NYC area should make it to the Blue Note at least one night this coming week, as Charlie Haden plays duets with various pianists: Kenny Barron on Tuesday, Ethan Iverson (of The Bad Plus) on Wednesday, Paul Bley on Thursday, and Brad Mehldau from Friday through Sunday. Haden, of course, was the bassist in Ornette Coleman’s original quartet and has ever since been spinning that “harmolodic” magic whereby a musician plays around the…
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Hat tip to JA
"Much of the science being done today in many fields will turn out to be wrong. Being wrong is an essential part of investigating the universe."
S. L. Price writes about his initiation into the newspaper business. "I was, as everybody there can attest, an instant master—at overwriting, at missing deadlines, at trying to invest my stories with an importance they didn’t deserve. But with another daily paper in town, I had to hustle or lose, and fear of humiliation was only one reason I got better. The fact is, battling on a beat is one of life’s few, clear-cut, post-athletic competitive venues. Each morning, readers open up a newspaper to see who won the game. Each morning, sportswriters open up a newspaper to see which writers won the…
Mitochondrial DNA research reveals some interesting facts about the Black Death.
The New York Times is ending its TimesSelect program, which charged subscribers $50/year for access to "premium" content, meaning most of their regular columnists. We're going to hear a lot of piffle about how the Times only had about 250,000 subscribers because the content was so widely pirated, but I think that's horse-hockey.
By putting Dowd, Brooks, Rich et al behind a pay portal, the Times effectively reduced their impact on public discourse. The rise of awareness of Salon and Slate in the same period wasn't simply because they were publishing good work (although in the case of Slate…