The Unbearable Lightness of Bulletins |
[This blog was originally posted at myspace.com/musicbydancook.]A couple of days ago, I posted a short and seemingly innocuous bulletin titled, "Hey everybody." The body of the bulletin was short: All...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:21:00 GMT |
Clinton vs. Obama |
OK, where to begin?I have never been a great fan of Hillary Clinton, but not for the same reasons as other people. I could care less about the "baking cookies" comment she made during her husband's fi...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:34:00 GMT |
The Mighty Thunderbolts |
0-7. 0-3. 0-4. 0-1. Such were the scores of the first four games of the Thunderbolts, the 8 and 9-year-old girls' soccer team I am coaching. Four games, 15 goals against, none for. Ouch.It wasn't for ...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:27:00 GMT |
Classical music: Dying or in a renaissance? |
I think it depends where you look. If you look at your local symphony orchestra, you might think it's dying. If they're playing programs comprised strictly of 19th-century warhorses to audiences...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:02:00 GMT |
Music and Words |
At the risk of sounding pretentious, I will admit that lately I've been "composing" music. Now, I could just call it "writing" music, which would sound considerably less pretentious and would be...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:32:00 GMT |
Giuliani and McCain |
Right now, the two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination are Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. This could change, of course: Mitt Romney is a close third and has a ton of money, and Fre...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:28:00 GMT |
The end of the world as we know it? |
After hearing Modern English on a Burger King commercial and Nick Drake on a Volkswagon commercial a few years back -- and more recently, Iron & Wine on an M&Ms commercial -- I really shouldn'...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:51:00 GMT |
Iraq -- We broke it, we bought it |
Am I the only person who thinks the current national "debate" about Iraq is completely unhinged from reality? Finally, nearly four years after the invasion, the American public has by and large come t...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:23:00 GMT |
Real Friends on MySpace |
I'm sure we have all joked at one time or another about the nature of friendship as experienced on MySpace. You know, being "friends" with someone you barely know just because you want to get your fri...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:21:00 GMT |
Flush technology? |
I spent the week of Thanksgiving at Edisto Beach with my wife, kids, brother, sister and mom. It was a quiet vacation, perhaps even boring at times, but mostly just a welcome week off with family, mag...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:25:00 GMT |
