Daniel Follmann, Koos van der Hout (trombones); Michael Simon (trumpet); Ruud Bergamin, Stanislav Mitrovic, Kurt Schwab (reeds); Bart Egeter (piano and arranger), Dan Simon (bass), Julius Schulz (drums). Video by Anton de Vries. Recorded live July 7, 2017, at the Galerie Kralingen, Rotterdam. Posted by Rotterdam Jazz Lab
Joe Biden, last seen sinking deeper into the Blobby bog
Daniel Larison has an excellent—“excellent” as in “deeply depressing”—take on President Biden’s stumbling—“stumbling” as in “clearly and severely wrong-headed”—Iranian “policy”, which is, in fact, so bad that I’ve exhausted a whole week’s supply of quotation marks in one goddamn sentence, which means I’ll have to take out a loan, something I can scarcely afford to…
Hail to thee, Blithe Spirits! Well, one of them, anyway.
Almost seven years ago, writing in the Bright Lights Film Journal, in a piece rather enigmatically entitled “We’ll Roll in the Hey Nonny Nonny!” Antic Antiques to Keep a Drowsy Emperor Awake, if He’s Not Too Sleepy, I wrote about first my fascination and then my frustration with the 1945 film version of Noël Coward’s…
Hermano Faltz—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Priscilla Odinmah, vocal, Hermano Faltz, guitar, Iury Batista, bass. Posted by Hermano Faltz
You say “Gelasian”, I say “Gelasian”, let’s call the whole thing off.
Over at the National Review, Michael Brendan Dougherty assures us that The Realignment Won’t Purge Libertarians, to the effect, I guess, that the new, improved, Trumpified Republican Party won’t, or at least shouldn’t, exclude anti-woke libertarians “who emphasize free speech and inquiry” over tradition, particularly when it comes to religious matters. Trumpy conservatives like himself…
We Three from the Sphere—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Hrvoje Galler, piano, Saša Borovec, bass, and Darko Stanojkovski, drums, Split, Croatia, December 15, 2017. Posted by Brico St
President Biden proposes a $2.3 trillion infrastructure package. What could go wrong? Well, I can think of a few things.
Sure I can. For example, suppose we spend that $2,300,000,000,000 and end up with 1,000,000+ $2,000,000 bike shelters, like the one at the East Falls Church, Va. Metro station. Since that shed, the time that I visited it, was only utilized to, you know, 2% capacity, a lot of people—mostly Republicans, of course—might think we…
Mark Aanderud Trio—“Rhythm-a-ning”
The screwing of Matt Gaetz: A Fuller Perspective
A couple of weeks ago I raised the interesting question of whether Rep. Matt Gaetz, who comes across as a walking parody of “Florida Man”, complete with nudie pics on the cellphone, is being framed as a sex trafficking pedophile, when in fact his only “crime” is, well, being a “Florida man”. Well, the sometimes…
Roy Jenkins was part of the solution, and part of the problem. Was that part of the problem?
Roy Jenkins had a fascinating life. Born in 1920 in Abersychan, a mining community in Wales, he came from a strongly “Labour” family—his father, Arthur Jenkins, was a leading official in the Union of Mineworkers, eventually becoming a member of Parliament. Jenkins himself was elected to Parliament at the age of 28, working his way…