June Music: What Do You Think I Am, Some Kind Of Idiom?
June 26, 2017 10:07 am 4 CommentsPhoto: Pharoah Sanders (1981) by Wojciech Soporek June 20-25, five shows in six days. Let’s save the best for the...
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Grateful Dead, Yeah They’re That Good!
May 22, 2017 10:11 am Leave your thoughtsThe Grateful Dead Are That Good The legendary Grateful Dead show from Barton Hall on the Cornell University campus in...
…and here’s the Education Plank of the Kind-of New Kind-of Left in Seattle
May 4, 2017 9:51 am 2 CommentsWhat Seattle’s New Left Wants: Education A Marxist Critique of Identity Politics …and my response: I commend our new left...
A Level-Headed Marxist Makes A Critique of New Left Politics in Seattle
May 4, 2017 9:42 am Leave your thoughtsA Marxist Critiques Identity Politics
Fake News: dada Did It!
February 23, 2017 10:03 am 3 CommentsDuring the summer of 1919, two expatriated dadas living in Zurich were bored. Hans Arp (1886-1966) and Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)...
Musical Improvisation and Play: Dead Beatles
February 20, 2017 2:20 pm Leave your thoughtsDead Beatles The play of children and the play of ensemble improvisers like the Grateful Dead share numerous co-identifying qualities....