Mary Poppins Remixed

The Mary Poppins soundtrack is one of my earliest musical memories. Back in the 80s, I laid out my vision for a sampled 60s world of dance music but my partners wouldn’t buy it so it’s gratifying to see that the musical on Broadway etc. has made it happen. My parents and relatives took me [...]

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Happy Independence Day!

Overheard from two kids at the fireworks display tonight on the Hudson River: Kid 1: I wish I was a fireworks. Then I would be SO PRETTY! Kid 2: Then you would die when you came down. Kid 1: How do YOU know?

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Quitters Stick With It. Winners Quit.

Via TPM, that’s the take-away from Sarah Palin’s speech. On twitter, Ezra Klein advises ambitious bloggers to comb through the speech for other internal contradictions. The headline says it all for me and I hope we’re done with this hack. John McCain was an idiot for putting her on the national stage. After the jump, [...]

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Up the Yangtze

I recently had a dinner with a cousin who is working in China. He said any businessman worth his gold watch should be asking himself and every business associate he meets with, “What’s your China angle?” That night I watched Up the Yangtze, a most remarkable documentary about how the Three Gorges Dam project is [...]

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Me On the Slope, Park

I have a bunch of blogging to do besides everything else. In the meantime, this is my newish goatee. Thanks to Lynn for the photo.

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