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Sunday, January 15, 2017

House . . .

. . . music . . .

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music)
". . . Artists and groups such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Aretha Franklin, Bananarama, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Steps, Kylie Minogue, Björk, and C+C Music Factory all incorporated the genre into their work in the 1990s and beyond. After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the second wave of progressive house (1999–2001). The genre has remained popular and fused into other popular subgenres, for example, ghetto house, deep house and tech house. As of 2016, house music remains popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene while retaining a foothold on underground scenes across the globe. . . "

. . . a Gentleman and a scholar who has mastered the genre . . .

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Saturday, January 14, 2017

Scribes . . .

(from http://davidsimon.com/michael-olesker-is-a-plagiarist-who-isnt/)

". . . “Once upon a deadline dreary . . . ”. . . The author, an alumnus of the University of MarylandDiamondback, had butchered “The Raven,” evoking the gothic plight of a journalist trapped at a typewriter, trying to keep his work fresh as he exhausted new developments in the top few paragraphs and was reduced to recounting backstory. To conclude each stanza, the haunting voice came to him: “Rewrite the background, ever more.” “No,” wails the reporter, “I will not burden my tale with all that came before.” “Rewrite the background, ever more.” . . . On the police beat, on general assignment, and especially on the rewrite desk, you were usually reacting to new developments on stories that were ongoing for days or months. You would quickly marry the fresh stuff to what had already been reported, more often than not by other staffers. You relied on info from the newspaper library, working your way through old clips, changing a word or two, flipping a sentence with a dependent clause, or, if you needed to lift a large chunk, restructuring a few paragraphs. . . So I am a plagiarist. And if we agree to the definition implied in both City Paper’s coverage of the Olesker imbroglio (Media Circus, Jan. 4. 2006) and the Sun’s response, then perhaps every rewrite man is a plagiarist. So, too, for reporters who routinely write stories using morgue clippings for background, or who work to catch up on a competitor’s reportage and err by not independently confirming every single detail. So, too, for every columnist who ever used reported material—either his own newspaper’s or that of another—as the given terrain on which to maneuver. . . A lot of people need to be fired, apparently. There may be scribes confident of their day-after-day, year-after-year output, who are sure no paragraph they ever used as background is too similar to its source, who are certain that whenever they reworked another paper’s story every fact was reconfirmed. But there are others—many others—who, in reflecting on Olesker’s fate, will privately admit unease. . . Journalism is not scholarship. While reporting requires integrity and precision, it is not a world of footnotes, textual cites, and bibliographic acknowledgment, and the news report of any major daily is a communal property. . ."

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Friday, January 13, 2017

No . . .

. . . after over 40 years of acting one way, now he will act another?

Three words:

Jefferson

Beauregard

Sessions

What more need be said.

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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Our . . .

. . . rocket scientist-in-chief . . .

. . . Hacking's bad and it shouldn't be done. . .

. . . I think it's Russia. But we also get hacked by other countries and other people and I can say that. . .

. . . I don't believe he'll be doing it more, now. . .

. . . it could be others . . .

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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Proposal . . .

. . . U.S. election law should make it mandatory for presidential candidates to undergo psychiatric testing to determine their fitness to assume the responsibility of the office to which they aspire.

(http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/)
". . . Mark Singer in the late 1990s. . . was working on a profile of Trump for The New Yorker. Singer wondered what went through his mind when he was not playing the public role of Donald Trump. What are you thinking about, Singer asked him, when you are shaving in front of the mirror in the morning? Trump, Singer writes, appeared baffled. Hoping to uncover the man behind the actor’s mask, Singer tried a different tack: “O.K., I guess I’m asking, do you consider yourself ideal company?” “You really want to know what I consider ideal company?,” Trump replied. “A total piece of ass.” I might have phrased Singer’s question this way: Who are you, Mr. Trump, when you are alone? Singer never got an answer, leaving him to conclude that the real-estate mogul who would become a reality-TV star and, after that, a leading candidate for president of the United States had managed to achieve something remarkable: “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”. . . "

What could it HURT??

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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Additional . . .

. . . untitled songs . . .

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled)
"Untitled", by Sack Trick, from the album Penguins on the Moon
"Untitled", by Shockabilly, from the album Heaven
"Untitled", by Silverchair, from the album Godzilla: The Album
"Untitled", by Six by Seven, from the album 04
"Untitled", by Stellastarr, from the album Stellastarr
"Untitled", by Swans, from the album Love of Life
"Untitled", by Unashamed, from the album Silence
"Untitled", by the Wailin' Jennys, from the album 40 Days
"Untitled", by Whiteout, from the album Bite It
"Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)", by Simple Plan, from the album Still Not Getting Any...
"Untitled (How Does It Feel)", by D'Angelo, from the album Voodoo
"Untitled 1", by Keane, from the album Hopes and Fears
"Untitled #1", by I Am Kloot, from the album I Am Kloot
"Untitled #1", by Spain, from the album The Blue Moods of Spain
"Untitled 1", by Keane, from the album Hopes and Fears
"Untitled 2", by Kendrick Lamar
"Untitled 2", by the Huntingtons, from the album Self-titled Album
"Untitled 4 Ballads", by Every Little Thing, from the album Many Pieces
"Untitled A1", by Richard Devine, from the album A Bugged Out Mix
"Untitled and Unsung", by Belly, from the album King
"Untitled Hymn", by Michael W. Smith, from the album Hymns II - Shine On Us
"Untitled Intro", by Fugazi, from the album The Argument

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Monday, January 9, 2017

Walk Back. . .

. . . is a term that seems to be heard a lot lately and one that I believe we will be hearing again and again in light of the recent presidential election results.

. . . on prosecuting Hillary Clinton, he replied, “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about."

. . . on torture, Mr. Trump told the Times, is “not going to make the kind of a difference that a lot of people are thinking.”

. . . on climate change and Paris accords . . . “I’m looking at it very closely,” he said. “I have an open mind to it.”

. . . on changing the libel laws . . . “’You know, you might be sued a lot more.’ I said, ‘You know, I hadn’t thought of that.’”

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