The Thought Criminal

"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Will Susan Collins And The Other Senators Yet Come Round To Doing What Mitch McConnell Wants Them To?

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As a number of people have said, Mitch McConnell was busy all during the long holiday weekend trying to come up with some version of the app...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Hall Overton - Piano Sonata (Ethan Iverson, piano)

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I always liked Hall Overton's music ever since I played a little piece of his called Mood published in a collection called  "A...

Bela Bartok - Cantata Profana - György Lehel Conducting

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József Réti, the oldest of the brothers Adrás Faragó, the father Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra György LEHEL, cond...

My Provocation For The Day

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I read the article in the Los Angeles Times about how when the fifth president, James Monroe died on July 4th, 1831, after both John Adams ...
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Bartok Plays Pieces From The Mikrokosmos Volume 5

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1 #125. Boating 2 #126. Change of Time 3 #128. Peasant Dance 4 #129. Alternating Thirds 5 #130. Village Joke 6 #131. Fourths 7 #133....

Bartok Plays Bartok From Volume 6 of the Mikrokosmos

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140, Free variations 141, Subject & reflection 142, From the dairy of a fly 143, Divided arpeggios 144, Minor seconds, major 7th ...

Walter Brueggemann teaching Sunday School on Psalm 73 - A Fourth of July Post

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I have posted this before but I listened to it again the other day and I noticed an interesting passage starting about 27:55 in which ...
Monday, July 3, 2017

What Do You Think Of Peter Beinart's .....

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While having been published at The New Republic isn't necessarily a sure sign of being a jerk, having edited it, especially during the y...

First Speak No Ignorance - Turning a Dying Baby Into A Political Football

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L ike just about anyone I've read on the topic, in the past half hour, I know next to if not absolutely nothing about nucleoside bypass ...
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Vote Up Crock

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I think there is a rule to be made from the observation that someone who is reduced to accusations of violation of standardized spellings ha...
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OK. That Post Was A Bit Depressing

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Here's something I remember and have watched at a couple of the lowest points in the last five months. Her last bit of advice is wo...

Holiday Announcement

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To write or not to write, that is the question.   It's been my blogging experience that holiday weekends, especially the extra-long on...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Anyone Know?

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There's another thing that Arch Oboler wrote and directed that I wish I could see or at least read the script for,  an early TV episode ...

Just Bob And Ray [7]

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Bob and Ray   There's a little of that degradation mentioned below in this recording but it's not very long and it's wort...

There Will Be No "Golden Age" Of Audio Drama, You'll Never Get It From A Zenith

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S imels, here and at Duncan's Daycare for Doddering Duffers, accused me of "going on about the golden age of radio" last night...
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Saturday, July 1, 2017

Dinah Washington - Clifford Brown - No More

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Dinah Washington, vocal Clifford Brown,trumpet Junior Mance, piano Keter Betts.bass George Morrow, bass Max Roach, drums Lover C...

Second Feature - The Mystery Project - Becker - The World Of Mary Hunter

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The World of Mary Hunter  and  An Expensive Bottle of Poison I figured I should post something Canadian for Canada Day an...

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Sears Radio Theater - The Afro-Westerner - A 4th of July Special

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The Afro-Westerner  "The Afro-Westerner" starring Brock Peters and Parley Baer, with Lome Greene, host. The story of a yo...
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More Independence Day Weekend Commentary

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I'm looking forward to Kellyanne Conway being hauled in front of a hearing or a grand jury under oath or being questioned by the FBI abo...

"You Don't Have A Sense of Humor"

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What do you want, pies in the face?  Seltzer down the pants?  An idiot cue telling you to laugh?  A laugh track?  An emoticon?  (the inter-n...
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