Happy To Be Me
Huckleberry is one smug kitty.
Wes Phillips
Free Music and Free Jazz
What a combination, as Forums participant jazzfan would say. I just discovered Destination: OUT, a website that posts MP3s of out of print jazz discs. Lots of good stuff there. Play nice.
Words and Music
Speaking of great jazz websites, Rod from Loughborough has a dandy 'un in wordsandmusic. It's just what the title says: thoughtful words on music Rod likes, linked to examples, deep references, and videos.
Hurray For Captain Pamphile!
OMG, there's a Dumas novel I haven't read? (A Dumas novel I haven't even heard of?)
A Confederacy of Dunces
Evan Thomas and Jeffrey T. Richelson have written books that chart the CIA's legacy of arrogant wrongheadedness.
Building a Viola
The first time I met PSB's Paul Barton, he mentioned that his love of music had been kindled by, among other things, his father building him a violin when he needed a better instrument in order to become a better player.
Al Alvarez on Losing "It"
The list of poetry editors with whom I am not familiar is not a short one, but until I read this appreciation of Al Alvarez in The Scotsman, I only knew his name from my tattered copy of The New Poetry—a book that lived on the transmission hump of my 'lime green 69 Plymouth Valiant and got quite a workout as I waited (endlessly) for my waitress girlfriend to get off shift at the IHOP.
Props to Carl Zimmer
I enjoy reading science writer Carl Zimmer and browse his website The Loom frequently. The post I link to below is a great example why.
Some Days You Eat the Bear
I was desperately cruising the web looking for a final post for the day when Jon Iverson sent this tea partay.
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The Big Carnival (Ace In The Hole)
Mark Evanier's News">http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_01_21.html#012795">News From ME points us to Wednesday's TCM broadcast of Billy Wilder's The Big Carnival. Why should you care? It's about as cynical a meditation on media manipulation as you're likely to see—and it is rarely shown. Paramount hated it (and its floppo status) so much that it deducted its Big Carnival losses from Wilder's Stalag 17 profits.