Jazz bassist Paul Thompson, aka pdbass, salutes by imitation 15 legendary jazz bassists, over a century of pizzo n’ arco, starting with Pops Foster and concluding with Christian McBride. If these are merely names to you, well, it’s time you got yourself educated.
Carmen McRae—“Monk’s Dream”
Actually a Monk three-in-one from the incomparable Carmen: Monk’s Dream/Ugly Beauty/Rhythm A Ning. Filmed in New York back in 1990. No information on her rhythm boys. Posted by atube亨
Hypocrisy is the homage that Ross Douthat pays to virtue
If, as increasingly appears to be the case, Donald Trump’s wild career will end, not with a bang but a whimper, then, sighs NYT opinionist Ross Douthat, more in sorrow than in anger, there will not be any accountability for Trump’s soft enablers within the Republican Party. There was a certain political accountability when the…
I did not see this coming! The B-21 bomber is so dumb, even the Washington Post is making fun of it!
Hell no I did not! The Washington Post, not known for its skepticism regarding America’s military intellectual complex—because it’s a charter member!—just can’t stop snickering at the B-21 “bomber”, sounding a hell of lot like me! Noting that Congress has kept the big boy’s budget secret, and that the plane’s recent roll-out was as primly…
Karl Marx, plagiarist
Back in 2016, I wrote a post, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump, echoing one of Karl’s greatest hits, remarking as follows: In 1852, Karl Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, commemorating in contempt the seizure of power of Napoleon’s nephew in the previous year and coining the immortal one-liner, “History, Hegel tells…
Alan Vanneman is very disappointed in Paul Krugman
Fuck yeah, I am. The source of my disappointment is Paul’s latest, Why America Is Getting Tough on Trade, the very title an irritant for the homage it pays to the meme that “getting tough” is always a good idea. Paul’s “nut graph” (I think that’s what it is) reads as follows: This is a…
The new B-21 Bomber? Don’t you mean B-2B?
I have been making fun of the B-21 bomber, under development by the defense firm of Northrup-Grumman, and its bumbling predecessors in uselessness, the B-1 and B-2, for years. Well, we now have gotten our first look at the newbie, shown above, and, wonder of wonders, it looks exactly like the B-2, also produced by…
Oh, Donald! You silly, silly man!
Yeah, it’s Ross Douthat, actin’ all craven on our asses once more, “explaining”, and explaining away, the Jan. 6 riot as, perhaps, not really that big a deal after all, so why don’t those big-mouth Democrats stop talking about it 24/7 and, in particular, stop, you know, denouncing people just for defending it, because “However…
George Packer, Packin’ the Con in “Neocon”!
I’ve never actually met George Packer, but I have read him, in the current issue of the Atlantic, so I’ll go out on a limb and say I can probably throw him farther than I can trust him. Yes, I am hip to old Georgie’s jive, right from the get-go—right from his “head”, as a…