Virtual Memories

I’ve never listened to the Roots, but I liked this interview with drummer/producer ?uestlove, particularly for his take on the music biz ?ua biz. And his ‘fro, which I aspire to.

Ron Rosenbaum, one of my favorite living writers, is keeping a blog! Check it out! And he recommends another one! So there!

We watched a little of the Emmy Awards last night, before the finale of Deadwood started. Unfortunately, there was a typhoon going on, so we lost the picture for a while. Amy gave up on trying to catch that episode, and we TiVo’d a later showing for her viewing this evening. So, while she finds [...]

My parents were worried when Dr. and Mrs. Capers moved in next door; the house they built was shaped like an ark. “Do they know something we don’t?” Mom wondered. The Capers helped me grow up (sorta like in loco grandparentis) and they showed an awful lot of kindness to my mom after Dad left. [...]

It’s the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s whomping of the Gulf Coast. I’ve been down to New Orleans four times since then. I’ve tried to chronicle a little bit of the reconstruction, or at least my viewpoint on the progress. My perspective is limited, of course. Amy’s family lives about 25 miles from the city, [...]

I have zombie dreams every few months and they’re no fun, let me tell you. I figure they derive from a persecution complex that probably sub-derives from my family’s history as Jews in eastern Europe. The result is a pretty standard scenario in which I’m the target of a shambling mob (at least they’re not [...]

Sorry it’s been a quiet week, dear readers. I’ve been busy at work, but I’ve also found myself falling into one of my wheels-within-wheels paranoiac phases. It’s centered on trying to get at an understanding of the power-relations at play in the current Gulf War. Anyway, I gotta write an article on the benefits of [...]

At the Washington Post, Jim Hoagland has a column on Gunter Grass, while George Will writes about the Japanese shrine to war-dead, which drives China into a tizzy. It’s interesting, how we can’t bear to forget and we can’t bear to remember. Here’s Hitchens reviewing a book about the moral issues of firebombing Hamburg, Dresden, [...]

Thursday night, Amy & I watched Soapdish, which she hadn’t seen before. She enjoyed the heck out of it, but marveled over how much I liked the movie. I’d seen it a few years ago after a friend of mine told me, “It’s one of the only movies he’s in in which Robert Downey, Jr. [...]

Everybody lives in a coccoon. If you can laugh at yours, it’s a good sign.