Call off the dogs! We’re back up to a half dozen this week. What goes around comes around? What goes around doesn’t quite come around What goes around could be made to come around What goes around makes pretty pictures Digital music distribution… …and other copyright conundrums
I am what I play…
As I mentioned last week, I had the honor of being a guest programmer for about 20 minutes worth of “FutureMixtape“. (Thanks again to Matt May and Jess Havens for the invitation and the long-distance hospitality). Technical difficulties got in the way of the plan for me to say a few brief words on air […]
Last week’s links
Once again, it’s a threesome rather than a sixsome. You feel cheated, I know. I’m sorry. Dance and education Social media and status Monkeys and QEII
So you had better do as you are told…
My friends Matt May and Jess Havens (no website of her own, so no link…sorry!) have recently started a weekly radio show called “FutureMixtape” on KEOS in College Station, TX. They’ve asked some of their friends to curate 15-20 minute sets of tunes each week … and they were bold (or foolish) enough to invite […]
Prelude to a . . . waitasec. What was the question again? [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 10 Feb 2007. [Possible mild spoilers ahead, depending on just how sensitive you are to these things.] Just came home from seeing The Departed at the glorious second-run theatre around the corner. And it was, in all sorts of […]
Driving while . . . mulatto [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 30 Nov 2006. Michael Omi was on campus tonight, where he gave a smart and engaging talk: “The Contradictions of Colorblindness: Race and Its Discontents.” During the Q&A period, two different audience members — seemingly with noble intentions — […]
Last week’s links
A half dozen of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Birds who don’t need thumbs. Trustees who don’t need ethics. TSA agents who don’t need logic. Taxation that needs representation. A team that needs a new name. Surveillance that needs to end.
Fail to the R******s
The off-the-field headlines from the NFL have been exceptionally bleak lately. Ray Rice. Adrian Peterson. Greg Hardy. Ray McDonald. It’s hardly surprising that lots and lots and lots of people are pissed off. And rightly so. But there’s one NFL owner who must be very happy to see all this bad news come along. Because […]