Back in the day, I used to work as a contractor with the National Commission for Education Statistics. Whenever we put out a report, we agonized, not over data, but over pictures. We have to send the right message here! We need Hispanic kids and black kids! The black boy is looking down the microscope?…
Mark Lockett Quintet–“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihr6aLpnkJo Live recording at Paris Cat Jazz Club, 2 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia. Mark Lockett, drums; Paul Van Ross, sax; Shannon Barnett, trombone; Mark Fitsgibbon, piano; and Desmond White, bass. Posted by MALockett08
Jamie Dimon, last seen talking out of both sides of his mouth
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is widely assumed to be a very smart man, as well as a very rich one. BloombergPolitics catches up with Jamie on his way back from a trip abroad to Israel, Ireland and France and reports the following: “It’s almost an embarrassment being an American traveling around…
For the Right, All Roads Lead Through Russia. Unfortunately.
For the “Respectable Right,” I mean—the Wall Street Journal Right, the National Review Right—the “Thoughtful Right”—I guess you could call them, Big Donnie’s recent speech in Poland, which I, uh, didn’t like, made their little hearts beat faster than Max Roach’s Night in Tunisia drum solo from the Jazz at Massey Hall album (which you…
ii-v-i orchestra–“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7gJ2DehqE From five years ago. The ii-v-i was once an Ann Arbor fixture, but seems to have fallen on hard times in the last two years.No personnel available, unfortunately. Posted by David Swain, who has more performances by the group.
Donald Trump, Defender of the Faith
Donald Trump’s recent semi-hemi-demi blood and soil speech, delivered during his visit to Poland, has provoked an hilarious outpouring of “thought” on the part of the Right, everyone from the National Review’s David French to Noah Millman at the American Conservative, to name two writers whom I frequently read without extensive sniggering. I’m not going…
Baby Driver: Jon Hamm doesn’t know Shakespeare
Actually, that should read “Edgar Wright, writer/director of Baby Driver, doesn’t know Shakespeare”, but Big Jon said it in the picture, and who knows Edgar Wright, amirite? But it’s all Edgar’s fault that poor Jon (aka “Buddy”) is stuck with the line “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?” when it should be “Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore…
Cass Sunstein, talking truth to no one in particular
Cass Sunstein doesn’t always get it wrong, so I’ve been told, but over at Bloomberg he can be observed lecturing Donald Trump on his manners—“A Graceless President, a National Betrayal”—which is rather like faulting a vulture on its breath.1 In the course of his peroration, Cass contrasts Trump unfavorably—as how could he not?—with Ronald Reagan….
Donald’s got a brand new tub!
A few weeks back, I noted that Donald Trump’s rejection of the Paris accords on global warming amounted to a “tub”, a high-visibility, low-significance virtual non-issue that would nevertheless promote much angst and heartburn among the liberal commentariat, both printwise and in talking-heads land, accompanied, in both media, by endless shots of El Donaldo’s great,…
University of Kentucky Mega-Sax Ensemble—Thelonious Monk’s Trinkle Tinkle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb9VQNuWwGE Different, right? Happy Fourth! Arranged by Dieter Rice. I can’t find personnel for the ensemble listed anywhere, but you can catch up with the guys here. Posted by Miles Osland