So our friends the Brothers Judd added to their excerpt of my post below the YouTube link to the Blind Boys of Alabama singing “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” It deserves to be, of course, the authoritative traditional version. Here’s my first musical link, my Christmas gift to each . . . . Continue Reading »
Two versions of the American Christmas . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this month I fell ill with the horrible flu that is going around and lying abed in misery decided not to pay too much attention to the news for sanity’s sake. Of course, the space between not too much and no attention leaves plenty of room for discouragement and distress. . . . . Continue Reading »
A bad poet visited me earlier this evening, and like a rhapsode, I have recorded his song. “Fiscal Cliff at Sunset in Galveston” Come you and I To a place, where looking upon this cliff— At that which would in its necessary counting we can’t See, but which could determine the . . . . Continue Reading »
by watching movies about GRACE. Our friends THE BROTHERS JUDD add some more . About Schmidt might well deserve to be a classic, but it’s so depressingly realistic in its details that it’s a bit hard to watch. And that Kathy Bates nude scene . . . Feel free to add some more GRACE movies, . . . . Continue Reading »
Sorry about the light blogging of late, especially Songbook-wise, but I’m movin’ to Newport News for a “new gig” and travelin’ meantime back to my Cali home. Thanks to a tip from a tardy commenter on my epic essay on social dance , however, here’s a ‘lil . . . . Continue Reading »
As the American right emerges from its November defeat, I’m wondering how conservatives will relate their current situation to their memory of Ronald Reagan. What lessons of Reagan’s career are most appropriate for our current situation? One approach is to repeat heavily distorted and . . . . Continue Reading »
Which would be more depressing: eating at McDonald’s on Christmas Day, or working at McDonald’s on Christmas Day? If I were a Marxist, I’d say the latter. If I were a libertarian defender of the Lochner decision, such as the author of this pretty-good and definitely . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve always liked Jonathan Rauch and regarded him as sometimes singularly in touch with the facts. Here’s one example: For the most obvious reason, he’s all for same-sex marriage, but he knows it’s better for everyone if the courts stay out of the struggle. Here’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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