That’s right. I enjoyed The Rise of Skywalker to a reasonable extent because I had bailed on the “saga” decades ago and never bothered to catch up. I didn’t know or care about any of the characters, so I wasn’t disappointed that it didn’t make sense. Sure, I had a lot of questions, but I…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Aaron Diehl Trio—“Round Midnight”
Aaron Diehl with David Won, bass, and Quincy Davis, drums, live at the Players Club, New York City, 2010. Posted by Aaron Diehl
Fred Kaplan says it’s time to worry about war with North Korea “again”. Why?
Why indeed? But it’s not just Fred, though I think Freddie was first off the mark with “It’s time to worry about war with North Korea again.” (Dec, 17), but his shrill concerns have been ably amplified by none other than the totally unbiased New York Times “U.S. Braces for Major North Korean Weapons Test…
Roman Viazovskiy—“Round Midnight”
Arranged for guitar by Roland Dyens. Available on the CD “Zeitenwanderer“. Posted by TheUkrtv
Who the HELL does Robert Gottlieb think he is?
Robert Gottlieb is a serious high muckety-muck in the New York literary scene, formerly editor in chief, no less, of, successively, Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and the New Yorker. So why is he pissing on poor old Booth Tarkington? In fact, much of Bob’s take on Booth over at the New Yorker, “The…
“Respectable” Republican congressfolk are full of it, Ramesh Ponnuru thoughtfully observes
I won’t count the ways I’ve abused “thoughtful” right-winger Ramesh Ponnoru, because if I did I’d be up all night, but today I come to praise Ramesh, not to bury him. Ramesh has generally been a “on the one hand, on the other” guy when it comes to be the Trump impeachment, but it appears…
The War in Afghanistan has been a total disaster, the Washington Post says. After “selling it” for more than a decade.
Who could have seen this coming? The Washington Post has released, with great fanfare, “The Afghanistan Papers”, a massive study documenting what a massive disaster the War in Afghanistan has been. It’s too bad, however, that the Post has “forgotten” how earnestly it pushed that misbegotten war, as recently as August of this year, something…
Some conservatives starting to show some signs of some capacity for self-awareness and self-criticism. This is encouraging! Somewhat!
The recent, totally unsurprising news that President Donald Trump is wont to discuss official business in a totally unprofessional way over totally unsecured private cellphones that could be easily monitored by the intelligence services of unfriendly nations, done on purpose, moreover, so that his staff won’t know what he’s been up to, has been met…
Trump’s grotesque perversions of American foreign policy to ensure his own re-election probably not that big a deal, Ross Douthat explains
Yeah, sure, Donald Trump is awful, but he’s probably not that awful, you know? You know? And even if he is, well, who cares? You’ve got money in your pocket and the sun is shining, isn’t it? Let those Beltway blowhards blow as hard as they please, getting all hot and bothered because Donald Trump…
Round Midnight
A nice arrangement delivered by what might be a German high school or college band, posted by “aw DC” Misterious! Need more Monk? Of course you do, Go to Mostly Monk