And, yes, the big frog is telling the little frog, “See that bitch? I fucked her.” Well, probably not. But according to New Republic doubledome Jed Perl, in the midst of a tediously extended article mostly intended to let us know how smart he is, and how much he hates “Painter of Light” dude Thomas…
Author: Alan Vanneman
The Lynne Arriale Trio—“Bemsha Swing”
Recorded live at the Burghausen Jazz Festival, Germany, with Lynne Arriale, pianist, Jay Anderson, bassist, and Steve Davis, jazz drummer. Posted by Lynne. Dunno why she only gives us three minutes, so I’m also posting “Blackbird,” with Mike McGuirk on bass. Posted by “uvisni”.
Someone owes Ben Stein an apology (ugh)
So Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a swaggering, philandering grab-ass who, it seems, did not sexually assault a maid at the swank Sofitel New York in Manhattan. And so Strauss-Kahn’s career is in ruins even though, it seems, he’s not a rapist. And so it seems that in the case of the Duke lacrosse team preppie not…
Day of the Jacobins
OK, my chronology is a bit off, because the Jacobins really hadn’t made the scene yet at the time of the Tennis Court Oath, but the point is, today’s Tea Party crew is a lot like the Jacobins. Why? Because, despite all their talk of fiscal responsibility, what they really want to do is repudiate…
Stan Getz “Out of Nowhere”
Stan the Man in Dusselfdorf in 1960. Posted by “BGG1”
President declares victory, decides to stay
Good news! The tide of war is receding, as the President has announced. Just not very fast. Things are going so well in Afghanistan, according to the President, that a year from now we will only have twice as many troops stationed there as we did when he came into office two years ago. Quelle…
Modern Jazz Quartet: “Bag’s Groove”
OK, has Percy Heath metamorphosed into Ray Brown? No matter. Posted by “Behjoh” About forty years ago, I lived in Pittsburgh and stumbled across my dream radio program, “Just Jazz,” with Ed Beach, a two-hour syndicated program that I believe was available seven days a week. Ed’s taste in jazz just about paralleled mine perfectly….
Do we want to elect this man President?
Mitt Romney tells a joke: “I saw a young man over there with the eggs benedict,” says Romney. “He had the eggs benedict with a hollandaise sauce and the eggs, there. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce and hubcaps. Because there’s no place like chrome…
A tub for Petreaus
Over at Slate, Fred Kaplan notes that “The White House debate over how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan next month is really a surrogate for a larger, more fractious debate over the wisdom and strategy of the war itself.” And Fred, being Fred, also notes that this is really really important and we ought…
Slate Magazine Thinks I’m an Idiot. Or Do They Know I Am?
If you read an article in Slate Magazine, which I often do, you’ll see a column next to it labeled “Recommended for You.” I’m hoping, a lot, that Slate just lists whatever articles some dude is willing to pay them to list there—that is, that this isn’t one of those hip net things where Slate…