I’m a huge fan of Brad DeLong’s “Grasping Reality with Both Hands” blog. Like Brad, I’m a pro-stimulus Krugmanite (or at least “Krugmanite-ish”) with a special interest in economic history, particularly the whole “European Miracle” thing. Unfortunately, I part company with Brad on global warming. My position is, yeah, it’s getting warmer, and it’s definitely…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Suffering white Christians, suffering at Harvard
Ross Douthat, whom I in the past have unkindly—and even perhaps unjustly—referred to as Ross Dumb Fuck—is at it again, bemoaning the suffering of white Christians, citing a study by Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford for support. According to Ross, Espenshade and Radford provide “statistical confirmation for what alumni of highly selective…
At Least It Wasn’t A Jew Joke
Marine Commandant James T. Conway gets a little carried away at the thought of some down and dirty all-male action in the Corps: “Our men need to know they can count on each other in battle, and we can’t have them getting distracted by illicit romantic dalliances. Especially if one’s a little blond Adonis farm…
Yes, it’s a real beaver
Well, it is. The hand puppet that Mel Gibson talks to in his in the can but not yet on the screen (and apparently not going to get there any time soon) new flick The Beaver really is a beaver, a buck-toothed, tree-cuttin’, dam-buildin’ beaver. You were thinking maybe kind of a vagina dialogues kind…
Thelonious Dub—“Bemsha Swing”
Joe Bartone, guitar, Sean Rainey, drums, Kyle O’Donnell, tenor Sax, Brandon Schmidt, Acoustic Bass. Thelonious Dub is a group, with an eponymous Monk album available from cdbaby.com. OK, you know the story on Thelonious Dub, but what about “Bemsha Swing,” which I’ve been playing a lot? Monk wrote the tune with drummer Denzil Best, who…
Mike Titlebaum, Jeff Campbell, Tom Killian and John Stetch— “Bemsha Swing”
Pablo Picasso salutes the heroic workers of North Korea in their struggle to smash the forces of American Imperialism!
Over at Slate, Christopher Benfey has a nice slide show on an exhibition at the Clark Art Institute—located “in the Berkshires”—according to Chris, examining the impact of Edgar Degas on the illimitable and irrepressible Pablo Picasso. Among the works featured is the one shown here, Nude Wringing Her Hair (1952). Although clearly riffing on Degas’…
Well, at least he didn’t choke on a terrarium!
Over at Slate, heartless Jack Shafer is at it again, pounding the New York Times for running fake “trend” stories on the non-existent rise in teen chokings and the non-existent increase in the number of terrariums, both non-existent trends attributed to the mother of all non-existent trends, Youtube. Not content with trashing the Gray Lady,…
No tits allowed—Steve’s rules
James Joyce must be laughing now—as if he ever stopped. Steve Jobs has found a graphic version of Joyce’s Ulysses too hot for iPad, the New York Times reports. The Times doesn’t say so, but it turns out that Ulysses is also too hot for the Gray Lady, because the comics page provided by the…
Tony Malaby—“Obambo”
Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone; Ben Monder, guitar; Eivind Opsvik, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums. Live at The Jazz Gallery, New York City, January 24, 2009.