March 2010

Sev­eral months ago, I started to jot down things in draft for this post. In my head, it was my intent to vio­late the oft-cited rule about three things you don’t dis­cuss in pub­lic – sex, pol­i­tics and reli­gion. I’ve begun to talk a lit­tle about sex, in the form of exam­in­ing gen­der roles. I’ve […]

I was first intro­duced to the music of Ethel Ennis about 15 years ago by my ex-wife’s uncle. He would often have jazz vocal­ists play­ing on the stereo dur­ing fam­ily get togeth­ers. Though the name stuck with me, I didn’t seek out her albums or attempt to learn more about her. It’s only recently that I’ve started to really lis­ten to Ennis’ music. I […]

Where true Love burns Desire is Love’s pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its mean­ing from the nobler part, And but trans­lates the lan­guage of the heart.                            — Samuel Tay­lor Coleridge                    

Check out this great ad by Pedi­gree. Here is more infor­ma­tion on the Phan­tom cam­era used to shoot the commercial.

Save The Chil­dren — Save The Chil­dren is send­ing an emer­gency assess­ment team to Chile, and they are ask­ing for con­tri­bu­tions to their Children’s Emer­gency Fund to aid these efforts. Amer­i­can Red Cross — The Red Cross has made an ini­tial pledge of $50,000 from their Inter­na­tional Response Fund, which you can con­tribute to to […]

This is mix #50 – Moon­walk – streamed from DeepRhythms.com, one of my favorite mix sites. Nat­u­rally, the stream will work bet­ter if you have a fast (broad­band) con­nec­tion. Oth­er­wise, let it load for a bit, then hit play. If you liked this mix, you can down­load it, and many oth­ers, from the site.