Category Archives: Rants

Ack! Get the Popo off my Back! Soy-free Gluten-free Vegan Day2

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

SO flustered. The first day at 11mg went so much better than I could have hoped for.  I had energy throughout the day.  Perhaps this diet thing really does have an impact.  Who can say how why, but it was … Continue reading →

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So Nice

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

Great hang with an awesome bassist, fun rehearsal, dinner with musicians with brains, a attended startling great concert, and then hung with some truly smart jazz musicians.  People with brains, and wit. Yesterday’s bitterness is sliding away.

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Morons Making Music

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Amazingly, jazz proficiency and IQ seem remarkably uncorrelated.  So many of the people playing jazz in legitimate clubs in New York are shockingly stupid.  No other art would tolerate such inanity.  Writers can’t get away with being unable to carry … Continue reading →

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Sleep it off

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

j took me out for a b-day dinner.  glass of barolo, oysters, beef carpaccio, gnocchi w ricotta, pasta genovese, quail stuffed w blue crab, broccoli rabe, chocholate brioche pudding, robiola panna cotta. then hit the sesh – didn’t play at … Continue reading →

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WTF

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

in visual art, people will buy anything if they’re convinced that the creator is brilliant – in music people will happily spend hours listening to idiots

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Media Circus

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Why I don’t own a tv and want to claw my eyes out every time I find myself reading ESPN: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6790119/rick-reilly-tiger-woods-new-world Sure Tiger Woods is a flawed character, but chewing him out for 1,000 words in ugly prose is not … Continue reading →

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Fuck the New York Times

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, Gail Collins, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Ross Douthat, and yes, even you David Brooks: You suck. [ I will deal with this topic later, in greater detail than this 5am rant following a self-destructive bender will … Continue reading →

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Fuck Facebook

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

I do not “like” a lot of things about Facebook.  But particularly peeving is the “Like” feature attached to all shared content. What does it mean to “like” something?  In aggregate, perhaps it serves to promote notable content.  But on … Continue reading →

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Fuck

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Dr. P____ L______.  The most inconsiderate asshole ever to live. Fuck Fuck Fuck

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