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, August 2, 2014

Mary Lou Williams Lullaby of the Leaves

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Mary Lou Williams  Lullaby of the Leaves With a really wonderful arrangement which sounds like her style.  I can't find who the band...

Mary Lou Williams Waltz Boogie

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I love this so much.  Mary Lou Williams was a great composer, easily as good as many of the men who are more famous, at times reaching up...

A Quick Lunch Hour Post

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Just when you thought that the Salon, Alternet, etc. sex articles couldn't get any stupider. " Why do so many straight women pref...

A Book Read Fifty Years Too Late

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I am going to have to work today so here's an old piece I wrote for Echidne of the Snakes in March of 2009.    M y thanks to the ano...

I Prefer to Think You Are Polite

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I noticed, just now, that either I've got the most indifferent or the most polite readers online.  No one has pointed out that I provide...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

Peggy Lee Goody Goody Your Friday Afternoon Ear Wrom

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Pseudo-Science The Right Likes and Pseudo-Science The Left Likes Is Sometimes Just About The Same Science

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O ne of the worst things about an ignorance of science while holding that science is the very embodiment of all that is good and great and w...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Akua Tuta Kashtin: Your Thursday Afternoon Ear Worm

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Akua Tuta (Take Care) by Kashtin Be careful what you do Be careful what you do with the things that has given to you. Be carefu...

Odetta At Noon

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On Opening Weber's Essays in Sociology

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I t was easy for the intellectual con men to con a naive country kid like me in my Freshman year of college.  I was always feeling intimidat...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

A Pastoral Letter on Child Refugees from the National Leaders of the United Church of Christ

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An Open Letter on Child Refugees Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The Council of Conference Ministers of the United Church of Chr...
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The Great Martha And The Vandellas: You've Been In Love Too Long: Your Wednesday Afternoon Ear Wrom

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And this is one rare case when the cover was pretty good too. Pre-post update:  Got sent home so I won't cough on the customers ...

John Coltrane At Noon

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The notes say that this is the only surviving footage of the one time that John Coltrane performed his great meditation, A Love Supreme, ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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Bela Bartok Sonata For Two Pianos and Percussion Joyce Yang  Joseph Kalichstein Pianos Markus Rhoten Timpany Steven Schick Percuss...

Jimmy Webb At Noon

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Somewhere Jimmy Webb said, Well, I didn't want it to be about a rich guy!  I wanted it to be about an ordinary fellow. Billy Joel came p...

Modernism As The Great Savior Is Total Crap Blessed By Academia

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S alon magazine has a piece by Stephen Eric Bronner , in praise of modernism as the great bulwark against bigotry.   The piece, presenti...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

I'm Just Wild About James Markey

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A while back I posted a trombone duet played by Michael Davis and James Markey .  Since listening more to James Markey I have to say he may...

Leon Russell: Tight Rope: Your Monday Afternoon Ear Worm

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I haven't played a Leon Russell record in so long that it's going to have to literally be the record, Carney, if I can get my 18-...

Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet At Noon

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You Can't Save Democracy Without Breaking A Few Sacred Cows So I'll Break Some More

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N ow that the mixed metaphor is out of the way, apparently someone is upset that I compared sacred  Marxism with the far right the other day...
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