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

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Claudio Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine

Monteverdi Choir London Oratory Junior Choir Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School John Eliot Gardiner English Baroq...

Zen Christianity?

W hen I began blogging, away back in 2006, I made my theme why the left has failed and how it could stop failing, gain office and change law...

Friday, January 17, 2014

On Green Dolphin Street (Tali Rubinstein - jazz recorder)

Update: Pardon me if I point out that this kid really can play jazz. These kids, actually. And this was three years ago. She's go...

"Religion" Is Declining And Why That's Good News For Religion

J im Hinch, at The American Scholar, has an interesting article about the reported decline of the evangelical churches from their high poin...

Thursday, January 16, 2014

This Made Me Smile

Melodica Czardas ~ ピアニカ・チャルダッシュ | Suguru Ito He clearly cares a lot about his music, which is the first and last requirement of mak...

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Can the Alternet Atheists Read? Does Alternet Care?

I don't have the time to go into depth, but one of Alternet's atheists, CJ Werleman has yet another distortion of a Pew study up t...

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Chick Corea Eternal Child Tali Rubinstein

I'd heard of this remarkable young student at The Berklee College but hadn't looked her up until now. She is remarkable, very cl...

"It was, of course, what we would call a radical movement, because the Gospels are radical." This is refreshing, and quite ...

Someone Tells Me I'm Not a Leftist

I 'm getting tired of people who tell me I'm not on the left when they're far more to the right than I am. It's often on th...

Monday, January 13, 2014

Buscando a Huevito/Gabriel Alegria

Mixed World Ensemble, Berklee College of Music, December 2013 Directed by Alain Mallet Arrangement by Osmar Okuma Violin - Layth Sid...

John Coltrane - 26-2: Tali Rubinstein

John Coltrane 26-2 Tali Rubinstein

Left Wing Hate Talk Radio

O nly it's not on the radio, the left being rarer on the radio than plate spinners on prime time TV, it's online. The left is almos...

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Vodou

A nother interesting program, this one about Vodou , from Krista Tippett's On Being this morning. I'm having a lot of trouble with...

Friday, January 10, 2014

Carla Bley and Steve Swallow: Remember

Answer to an Old and Rejected Comment

A pparently someone has found evidence that my many posts dealing with the relationship of Darwin with eugenics in England, North America a...

Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Young Tradition Lyke Wake Dirge

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

"Art is long, a soprano recorder is short." My friend "X" came by to try to cheer me up, he brought a funky little rec...

Scene On the 13th Day of Christmas X: So, Christmas is gone by again. Y : Yeah. X: Kind of sad in a way. Y: Yeah, not like my Aunt...

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

True Confession: I'm a Rocket Stove Porn Addict

While other people are watching other stuff, I'm addicted to watching YouTubes of low-tech stuff. And of all the many stove videos I...

Monday, January 6, 2014

Oh, Great

Well, I fell down on the ice and broke my arm in two places this evening I could kill my brother for not sanding, though I'll have to wa...

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