Dan Wood on piano, Nick Malcolm on trumpet, George Crowley on tenor sax, Olie Brice on bass and Simon Roth on drums. Performing at Servant Jazz Quarters, London, UK. Posted by Dan Wood
Author: Alan Vanneman
What Hath Trump Wrought?
Which is more decadent, Donald Trump or the Annual Gala of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York? Okay, trick question, because there is no wrong answer. But putting the Donald in perspective does take some work. Yet the sources of the Donald aren’t hard to find: the stumblings and…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “My horoscope says watch out for falling cinderblocks. Why?” “Siri says ‘Cloudy today with chance of falling cinderblocks.’ That’s cute.” “We just have to show the building trades who’s boss in this town, that’s all. I mean, De Blasio ain’t LaGuardia, you know what I’m saying?” “The unions just…
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At the Montrose Jazz Festival, 1977. Posted by emanuele dimundo
Are you one of the millions who would refuse to see Dr. Strange if the “Ancient One” were played by an Asian?
George Takei obligingly rips Marvel Studios a new one for forging yet another link in the infinite chain of Hollywood hypocrisy by turning “the Ancient One,” a character in the upcoming “Dr. Strange” film, from an Asian to a Celt so that he/she can be played by non-Asian Tilda Swinton without subjecting the studio to…
WalMart Books
I was in a WalMart Supercenter—I mean, really in one—this weekend for the first time in my life. Naturally, I looked for reading material. WalMart has lots of adult coloring books, something that I did not know existed. Apparently, lots of people find it relaxing to color in semi-abstract designs, just as they find it…
Alfred Hitchcock—A coupla white guys sittin’ around talkin’, Part II
Two weeks ago, I used the clip shown above—a detailed analysis of an early scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo supplied by “Nerdwriter1”—largely as a springboard for discussing a persistent “windows motif” that runs through the picture. Today I want to talk about what the two characters in this scene “Scottie” (Jimmy Stewart) and Gavin Elster…
Pride goeth before a fall? I sure hope so!
At the corner of 18th and Massachusetts, less than two blocks from my condo, stands this fine, five-story Beaux Arts structure, sometimes known as the Andrew Mellon Building. For several years now, the American Enterprise Institute has been laboring to turn 1785 Mass into a headquarters posh enough for their exalted egos, counting among their number…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Okay, when I say ‘Jump!’ you jump! It’s not that hard!” “I miss the C train. It had brakes.” “Sure we pay a price, but the tracks belong to the people, damn it! The tracks belong to the people!” “If we had a TV, that would be nice. I…
Hey, George F. Will! Stop making sense!
Yes, much as I hate to admit it, George F. (“F as in FREEEEEEEEKY!!!!!”) Will, perhaps my all-time piñata/bête noire, has a point in his latest screed, “Scientific silencers on the left are trying to shut down climate skepticism”, because that’s exactly what’s happening. I’ve previously complained about the utterly meretricious suit brought by a…