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Dear President Leebron, Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed letters responding to concerns over the sale of KTRU’s FM license and transmitter. Your letters provide some insight to the pressures you’ve been under and show the beginnings of what could be a productive dialogue between the students, alumni, the greater Houston public, and [...] “Things became both silly and morose and after a few hours I retired to the lanai where I am now, plucking possible yuppie fat from the snouts of my dogs and watching sunlight’s first pinking of the Coachella Valley, the valley in which Palm Springs lies.” Ten NAP points will go to anyone who [...] During Conor’s exile to Bismarck (that would the one in North Dakota named after Otto von, not the Bismark of Sachsen-Anhalt)*, I have been drafted to provide you with your bi-annual German language lesson. It’s an easy one: “Ihr stinkt.” As you might have already guessed, it translates as “you (plural) stink.” But, there [...] My French has not improved as of late and I think it’s time to do something about it, even though every time I say I’m moving to France my friends roll their eyes as if to challenge yet another empty threat. Even I wonder if I have the courage to do it.Writing for [...] David A. Paterson is being sworn in right now. The inauguration and his speech are being broadcast live. Don’t know if NPR around the country is broadcasting it, but they are here in New York and it’s pretty damned good.Text of the speech here. It would be better to listen to a recording with [...] whoever goes to the most festivals wins a prize. prize t.b.d. SnowbombingMarch 31st – April 6thMayrhofen, Austria Festival International de LouisianeApril 23rd-27th Lafayette, Louisiana“a fantastic international festival in cajun country that celebrates french acadian culture as well the general francophone diaspora” – jennie CoachellaApril 25th-27thIndio, [...] Number of people killed in a car accident in the U.S. in 2006: 42,642.Number of people murdered in the U.S. in 2006: 17,034.Some people have made the rough conclusion that it’s safer to live in a city (where the crime rate is presumed to be higher) than it is to live in the suburbs [...] Andrew d’Angelo is a composer and saxophonist and you can hear his music here. He was one of my housemates when I first moved to New York, and I just found this out, so I’m gutted at the moment. He has suffered a seizure and has had a cancerous brain tumor removed, but still [...] This link comes courtesy of my friend Scott, who comes from the same general part of the world as Brett and Jemaine. Those of you who have HBO probably saw this last summer. I don’t have HBO. Well actually, I have HBO, but I don’t have a TV yet. Don’t ask. Apartment [...] What do the Grammys have to do with anything? I couldn’t find anything in the entire list of nominations that inspired curiosity. Please let me know if you think I’ve overlooked something.
Words for the day: Polyphony and Micropolyphony.
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