Unfortunately I will be bowing out of the gig Friday night due to a horrid case of the flu…BUT you all should go and see it, what a great band….I’m really bummed to miss it, 13 …
Bad week for drinking and playing chess…
My friend, and fellow grad student, Przemyslaw Bosak and I went out to drink some beer and play chess last night (highlights: Pliny the Elder, Allegash Black, and Pizza Port’s Hop 15 in cask). Luckily it …
What’s he got against zero-gravity chairs?
The list at the end of this post reminds me of the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge…I was reading a Lakoff text when I ran across mention of Borge’s Celestial Emporium’s taxonomy, that animals are categorized …
Bobby Fischer: First Anniversay of his Death
Chessbase has a great article with links to sixty other articles about Bobby Fischer.Click Here.
Passings this year…Bobby Fischer, musicians in the New York Times…
Michael Paterniti has written an engaging piece on Bobby Fischer in the New York Times. It begins: “Before he was secretly buried on a dark winter morning in a lonely Icelandic churchyard at the age of …
Duo with Cooper Baker in Eugene, Oregon
Last night Cooper Baker and I performed at DIVA in Eugene, Oregon. It is a nice gallery, with a low-key performance space that I love to play at. The awesome Don Haugen (Warning Broken Machine) hooked …
A Pause for Pinter…
Having done incidental music/sounds for several of his plays, this saddened me, Harold Pinter was such a great playwright. But the Pinter Pause will live on. Or will it? (Read the link.) From the AP:Nobel Laureate …
India Cooke and Joelle Leandre at ISIM 2008
Photos I took of India Cooke (violin) and Joelle Leandre (contrabass). They put in a terrific set as special guests this year. It was a pleasure to meet and hear them. This set took on special …