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Who can resist an article that begins like this? "The sniffles of a diva are like the tantrums of La Nina: a tropical depression in the Pacific is ready, by the time it gets to the North Atlantic, to produce lightning bolts, pelting hail and a deluge of biblical ferocity."
Really want to protect New Orleans? Restore the Mississippi Deltaic Plain. The Army Corps of Engineers—those busy little khaki covered beavers—have much more than those sub-par levees to answer for.
Remember all that furor over research results indicating women's brains are hard-wired to prefer pink? Well, you needn't.
Dr. Ben Goldachre gives the data a right going over. I love this guy—and Bad Science is a weekly delight.
Blogging on Stereophilia will be sporadic this week because of CEDIA—although the chaos kitties will make their Friday appearance as usual.
For more bloggy goodness, join Kal Rubinson and me for our CEDIA blog over at Stereophile.
Fred Hersch is playing six nights of piano duets at the Jazz Standard in New York City this week, pairing off with a different pianist each night, and Tuesday’s opening set was a marvel, further evidence that Hersch, not quite 52, is one of the two or three most harmonically imaginative jazz pianists on the scene and keeps carving new pathways—more intricate and probing, but no less swaying or lyrical.
His duo-partner last night was a former student of his, Ethan Iverson, 34, best known as the pianist in The Bad Plus but deserving acclaim as much, much more. I wrote recently about Iverson…
It's funny, but everybody knows the Edsel was a flop and a wretched car. Everybody that is, except people who own one. I've known four people who were proud Edsel owners and their cars were all great rides.
Besides, when you're behind the wheel, you don't have to look at it—coming and going it had two completely different personalities.
Hiya, E.
Nice to hear from you. Things are the same here: Busy, and I'm looking forward to your return.
We ship November next Tuesday/Wednesday. Meanwhile, I've sent all the charts to Nerissa for the Buyer's Guide. Pip continues to be a big help; I don't think I could keep everything straight without her. The sales guys are at CEDIA, and Ariel's back in school, so it's a bit quiet today.
Lots of reading to do, and I'm also working on the opening essay for the Guide. Did I mention I'm looking forward to your return?
How are things at home?
SM…
My bus was early, so I almost missed it. I sprained my ankle on Monday, so I can barely hobble down the aisles. Denver is humid. CEDIA is an A/V show.
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
Yet, within minutes of entering the Denver Convention Center, I had a huge grin on my face because there was tons of two channel—including the appearance of an actual retail-ready Thiel CS3.7, a fascinating digital stereo, and a turntable from an unexpected source. And that was just the first two aisles.
Unless I hit the mother-lode in the first hour, this is gong to be an interesting CEDIA.