Well, frankly, dude, you don’t. You look like your name should be something along the lines of “Russ Trayed”, and you look like you stepped out of the pages of gay cult artist “Tom of Finland”, who specialized in throbbing black and white illustrations of strapping young lads in motorcycle jackets and shades and nothing…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Socio-political notes from all over
God Bless Niall Ferguson! (Pretty much) It’s hard to think of anyone I have trashed so consistently and so contemptuously as Niall Ferguson, whom I once grudgingly praised with a thoroughly uncivil leer as a Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball, while also urging readers not to read his then most recent book, whose title will go unmentioned…
Egor Uzhva—“I Mean You”
Jazz from Kyiv! Featuring Egor Uzhva (apparently from Dubai), sax, with Oleksiy Bogolyubov, piano, Nikita Kovtunenko, drums, and Egor Abramov, bass. Kyiv Glier Academy of Music, 2020. Posted by Serge
Washington Post columnist empties his bladder on Washington Post column
Yeah, it’s not really a question of what WashPost Media Critic dude Erik Wemple had been drinking, but rather how much, and, judging by his recent offering, Depp-Heard case hinged on the world’s worst #MeToo op-ed, I’d say a good two liters at a minimum. It’s true that I beat Erik to the post, so…
Ilya Shapiro: Sometimes he looks like a martyr, sometimes he looks like a dick.
Well, he does! My Cancel-Culture Nightmare Is Over, writes Ilya in the Wall Street Journal, which, I’ve discovered, lets you read a “limited” number of articles for free, which I find convenient, since I would never support such a nauseatingly right-wing rag financially. Sez Ilya My long public nightmare is over. Tomorrow I assume my…
Cyrille Aimée—“I Mean You”/”You Know Who”
With Joel Frahm, tenor, Spike Wilner, piano, Phlip Kuehn, bass, and Joseph Saylor, drums. Lyrics supplied by Jon Hendricks. Recorded on September 26th, 2010 at Smalls Jazz Club, Greenwich Village, NY. Posted by Neal Miner.
What if they gave a Cold War, and nobody came?
I spend a lot of time grasping at straws these days, and Politico has kindly sent a couple wafting my way of late, viz., The U.S. Can’t Force the Rest of the World to Support Ukraine. Here’s Why. and A Forecasting Model Used by the CIA Predicts a Surprising Turn in U.S.-China Relations, said surprising…
Joe Biden likes being a Cold War President
It is common wisdom that presidents tend to concentrate on domestic policy when first arriving in office and then pivot to foreign affairs, where they can act without having to worry, too much, about the reception their ideas will receive on Capitol. It can be said of Joe Biden that he’s making the switch in…
Joey Alexander and Gábor Bolla—“I Mean You”
With Mattias Svensson, bass, and Morten Lund, drums. The Standard Jazz Club, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2014. Posted by Mister Red Panda
Donald Trump not a nice person, Jack Shafer discovers
I don’t mean to dump on Politico columnist Jack Shafer—well, actually, I do mean to dump on him, but I’d prefer not to admit it—but his latest column, Trump’s Alternate Reality Hits a New Crazy Note with Dr. Oz all too accurately describes the very real menace that Donald Trump presents to American democracy and…