My Annual New Year’s Eve Message
Sean MurphyAs always, it’s a hell of a lot easier to keep these things in perspective...
2013: Time To Die
2013: In pace requiescat! Theme video for this annual series (especially instructive for those not...
Yusef Lateef: R.I.P., Gentle Giant
We have lost one of the great, indeed one of the greatest, ones. Yusef...
The Narrow Path: A Tone Poem for Christmas
You are alone. You are back in the city and you are alone as you...
My Kind of Christmas Music (Revisited)
Tchaikovsky Corelli Bach A few from John Fahey The Who Chuck Berry a three-fer from...
The Problem With the Homeless Problem*
Who was he? I think the same question each time I see him (every day:...
DUMB Dynasty
First off, the only dynasty involving ducks that I’m interested in discussing is the Duck...
Your Holiday Shopping List or, My Island of Misfit Toys
If you’re wise (and/or foolish) enough to take my advice seriously, here are some of...
Peter O’Toole, R.I.P.
They’re all gone. Burton, then Harris, then Reed, then Taylor. And now, O’Toole. Yes,...
Newtown and The Healing Power of Music, Featuring Herbie Hancock
I feel obliged to say something, anything, on this sombre occasion. Fortunately, Sean Beaudoin has done...