Subbing Music History at the last minute today, I delivered a two-hour extemporaneous lecture on how the emergence of the Renaissance from the aftermath of the Crisis of the Fourteenth Century influenced the development of music as we know it, and how that era parallels the dawn of the Information Age.

Then I went and got back in my taxi.

Watching Nanna'Lan with Margot while we put away laundry makes me wonder if Rule 34 applies to Nanna and Mr Wooga. I'm going to leave that unknown.

I've posted about my somnocioncious life-tivo before, last night had some crazy vivid dreams about college drumline rehearsals, now 14 years since I last shouldered a set of tenor-drums. It brings to mind Ronald Regan's recurring dreams of his youthful lifeguarding well into his 70's. There are old friends with whom I've long lost touch who make ( Read more... )

I had a weird experience last week whereby four different people I never see popped up at random. Two were your average "Oh Hi, good to see you." type moments. One was somebody I'd lost track of 15 years ago and had tried in vain to find a few times. One was my second-oldest friend whom I usually see only at holiday get-togethers calling me out of ( Read more... )

First pickle
Originally uploaded by wendylaufersweilerThis is both the saltiest and sourest thing she has ever eaten, and it is good.

I'll be the guy in the straw hat.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

Margot has her first tooth. Even teething, she's not inordinately fussy. Best baby ever. In addition to plucking (and licking and chewing) on the ukulele, she now bangs on pots with (and licks, and chews on) drum-sticks. I'll never pressure the girl, but planting seeds is fun.
Went to the orthopedist for the first time in 18 months. Good news: I' ( Read more... )

...you take your parent to the hospital, and have to agitate the staff to have him treated ( Read more... )

That's one hell of a rough commute.