The first podcast went out on Monday, and I’ve received some good feedback, and I’m looking for some more. A few people have asked that it be a little longer (it runs about 6 minutes now). There are two reasons it’s the length it is. One, I don’t know a damned thing about podcasts, so [...]

[caffe latte] [cappuccino] Lokesh Dhakar illustrates the (sometimes rather arbitrary and picayune) difference between the different coffee drinks for those who think of their caffeine as some kind of toy instead of, as I freely cop to for myself, a Genuine Medical Need. Unlike some bean freaks, I’ve got nothing against the Cult of Foam. [...]

Yes, trivia will be on tonight. It won’t be the formal DSO style (I’m not sure if the PA is working yet, and if there isn’t a boombox, then I’ll buy one for next week), but I’ll be there with questions, and if you haven’t seen the new Dempsey’s, well, it’s a lot nicer than [...]

One week from today, on Wednesday, September 5, starting at noon, WNYC will be celebrating the 95th birthday of John Cage by playing 24 hours and 33 seconds of his music. One of the greatest conceptual thinkers of the 20th century, Cage’s influence on how music and sound is heard has been an pretty major [...]

I have a metric shitload of trivia questions to write today, and I have been very easily distracted. (To be fair, distractions are kindasorta what this blog is about. But still.) If I can go the rest of the day without hearing anything about Michael Vick, I’ll be thrilled. (Hey, did anyone notice Alberto Gonzales [...]

From the WFMU blog (the best music blog on the planet, bar none; their army of music geeks have a level of passion and knowledge that dwarfs even that of the other music geeks I know) comes an amazingly comprehensive and heavily annotated biography of the great Moms Mabley. Covering the entire breadth of her [...]