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Monthly Archives: February 2009
And More Change…
Every holiday and birthday, you hear the same cliché about what you get the person who has everything. Well, heck, if they’ve got everything, what’re they going to do with more stuff? And why not give someone without so much … Continue reading
Writing on Writing: Finding Your Voice
Ages ago, one of my college professors told a creative writing class, “Nothing ruins writing like going to college.” And while it’s true that the endless grind of essays and term papers can lead to a stilted, overly academic, view … Continue reading
How You Say…
A good book is a wonderful thing; you can lose yourself in someone else’s imagination, learn of things you would never otherwise have known, or just take pleasure in well-wrought sentences and memorable turns of phrase. English as She is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Humor
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Robert S. McElvaine: Grand Theft Jesus
Robert McElvaine is one pissed-off individual. It’s hard to escape the conclusion, all the way from the cover to the very last page of his Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America. On the other hand, all the old … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Religion
Tagged book reviews, Christianity, Grand Theft Jesus, Religion, Robert S. McElvaine
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…And if You Believe That, There’s a Guy in Holland with an Ark to Sell You.
My brain hurts. Here’s why: Yesterday, I received an email that told of a Dutch creationist named Johan Huibers, who got it in his head to build Noah’s Ark to the same specs that God gave Noah in the Bible. … Continue reading
John McWhorter: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
“The ideal antidote to Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.” Okay, we’ve gotten that part out of the way. Now, on to the book. John McWhorter’s Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue is like manna from heaven for people who get all weak-kneed over … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, John McWhorter, linguistics, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
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O Rappa: 7 Vezes
Years back, I remember reading an article in Musician magazine where they asked a couple dozen musicians what they hoped the music of the ’90′s would sound like (this would’ve been in late ’89 or early ’90). I don’t remember … Continue reading
Carlinhos Brown: A Gente Ainda Não Sonhou
When an artist you don’t particularly like releases an album you don’t particularly like, it’s not exactly a big deal because the bar was set pretty low to start with. But when you generally like what someone’s done up to … Continue reading
Lenine: Labiata
You could call Lenine a late bloomer; although his first album (with Lula Queiroga) dropped in 1983, when he was 24, there was a break of nearly ten years before his collaboration with Marcos Suzano, Olho de Peixe, would appear; another … Continue reading
Sugar-Free Jazz: The Jazz Ear, by Ben Ratliff
If trying to define jazz is difficult, trying to get a jazz musician to talk about his or her approach to the craft seems harder still. As Ben Ratliff notes in the introduction to his latest book, The Jazz Ear: … Continue reading