Month: January 2018

The passage of time is flicking dimly upon the screen; I can’t see the lines I used to think I could read between. Perhaps my brains have turned to sand. That’s from “Golden Hours” by Brian Eno. It’s one of my favorite lyrics, as it captures my mood perfectly. As we age, I think that…

Hi, I have another jazz podcast. Really reflects a lot of what I’ve been listening to a lot lately. After years of listening mostly to older jazz and classic jazz artists, I’ve really begun to switch and listen to newer jazz artists. Most of the cuts today reflect that, although the last set features two…

It’s increasingly hard to stay apolitical in light of all that’s going on. The US government shutdown affects some of my friends directly (unpaid leave), and may affect all of us in very direct ways. C’mon, let’s get this government back in operation. Among the many people hurt in our new anti-immigration movement are El…

As part of my New Year’s resolutions, I was going to concentrate on writing more and doing more essays here. That’s yet to start, as I find it hard to come up with things to say on a weekly basis: how’s the weather; what am I doing today? It doesn’t help that my already bad…

It’s the start of a new year, and what a year it’s been already. Temperatures around here have been extremely cold (someone wondered, as they were looking at temperatures, if we had switched to the Celsius scale, with highs on a couple of days remaining negative). My eyeballs almost froze yesterday as I went to…

I still have 2017 music that I haven’t put out on a podcast. This time: Jazz. It was a good year for jazz, and some of my favorite tunes appear on the pod today. I listen to many kinds of music, and this is music that makes me happy. So let’s reflect on 2017 and…