Miscellaneous

To the Hunt Real Estate Art of

Posted on May 03, 2009
To the Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz last night, a double bill with Frank Kimbrough opening on solo piano, then returning as part of the Kendra Shank Quartet.I liked Kimbrough, who we already knew to be a versatile instrumentalist, having seen him in past seasons with the Maria Schneider Orchestra and with Dewey Redman...

I Want Revenge's scratch is going

Posted on May 02, 2009
I Want Revenge's scratch is going to move a lot of money around. My plan B was to box Friesan Fire (who I guess I really like) with Chocolate Candy.

April was a lost cause, and now

Posted on May 01, 2009
April was a lost cause, and now here it is, Derby Weekend already. I'm boxing I Want Revenge and Friesan Fire.

How to be a Successful Evil Overlord:#

Posted on April 30, 2009
How to be a Successful Evil Overlord:# 98. If an attractive young couple enters my realm, I will carefully monitor their activities. If I find they are happy and affectionate, I will ignore them. However, if circumstances have forced them together against their will and they spend all their time bickering and criticizing each other except during the intermittent occasions when they are saving each other' lives at which point there are hints of sexual tension, I will immediately order their execution...

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To the Bike Path Sunday, for a

Posted on April 28, 2009
To the Bike Path Sunday, for a calibrated four-miler. I was there around lunchtime, and was therefore in the middle of an event I did not know about, the BPAC Six Hour Distance Classic. As I advance deeper into my 50s I find that I still have some athletic goals, but six hours around a 3...

I'm not sure how to write about

Posted on April 20, 2009
I'm not sure how to write about this, but I know I will be writing about it more. Last week EGA, who is 23, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is treating, and in good spirits, and since we got the bad news all of the news we've had so far is encouraging...

Margaret Whiting isn't exactly

Posted on April 09, 2009
Margaret Whiting isn't exactly the sort of singer I like, but she's an interesting figure in the history of American popular music. She used to show up on Jonathan Schwartz' WNEW program, where she'd sing a little, and talk about her father, the composer Richard Whiting...

EGA getting it done at the Bloomington

Posted on April 09, 2009
EGA getting it done at the Bloomington Mini Marathon.

25 great albums that work best

Posted on April 08, 2009
25 great albums that work best when listened to from start to finish. (Via Kottke.) I am not familiar with a number of these, and of the ones I know, many are not sides that I am inclined to play at all. Pink Floyd give me a pain. Nobody wants to hear "Nebraska" except for "Atlantic City", I don't care how much of a masterpiece it is technically...

Congratulations to EGA, 1:48:14

Posted on April 05, 2009
Congratulations to EGA, 1:48:14 in the Bloomington Mini Marathon, 08:15 pace, and a snazzy 11th place in her age group. She knocked six minutes off her PR over a touch looking course:

To The Hold Steady at the Tralf

Posted on April 02, 2009
To The Hold Steady at the Tralf last night, sold out to the walls for a band that completely lived up to its reputation as a terrific live act. They have a deep catalog, and they work hard to put each song over-- they weren't just playing, they were performing...

You know what I hate? When people

Posted on April 01, 2009
You know what I hate? When people say "arbitration" when they mean "mediation". I also hate it when people say, "sworn affidavit". What the hell is an unsworn affidavit? These are not things laypeople say, for the most part. Laypeople seldom talk about affidavits or alternative dispute resolution...

Here's an exciting new amendment

Posted on April 01, 2009
Here's an exciting new amendment to the Uniform Civil Rules for the Supreme and County Courts:§202.12 Preliminary Conference* * *(c) The matters to be considered at the preliminary conference shall include:* * *(3) Where the court deems appropriate, establishment of the method and scope of any electronic discovery, including but not limited to (a) retention of electronic data and implementation of a data preservation plan, (b) scope of electronic data review, (c) identification of relevant data, (d) identification and redaction of privileged electronic data, (e) the scope, extent and form of production, (f) anticipated cost of data recovery and proposed initial allocation of such cost, (g) disclosure of the programs and manner in which the data is maintained, (h) identification of computer system(s) utilized, and (i) identification of the individual(s) responsible for data preservation; [(3)](4) addition of other necessary parties;[(4)](5) settlement of the action;[(5)](6) removal to a lower court pursuant to CPLR 325, where appropriate; and[(6)](7) any other matters that the court may deem relevant...

1001 Rules For My Unborn Son. No

Posted on March 31, 2009
1001 Rules For My Unborn Son. No reason to limit these to male offspring, generally sound. 334. Unless you served, no fatigues. 325. When excusing yourself from the table, you need not give a reason. 302. Never be the last one in the pool. 282. Never swing at the first pitch.

To Ted Nash and Odeon at Bruce

Posted on March 30, 2009
To Ted Nash and Odeon at Bruce Eaton's Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz at the Albright-Knox yesterday, a show I had been looking forward to that still managed to exceed my expectations. Nash plays clarinet, tenor sax and bass clarinet, fronting a band with a violin, accordion, drums and tuba...

To "An Afternoon with Harvey Pekar"

Posted on March 29, 2009
To "An Afternoon with Harvey Pekar" at the Central Library. It was an imperfect format, somewhat by necessity, I suppose. Pekar was interviewed by two librarians-- the Humanities Librarian and the Young Adult Librarian from the Erie County Library. Both were familiar with his work, but the questioning lacked spontaneity...

Some time back, scrolling around,

Posted on March 28, 2009
Some time back, scrolling around, I came across the middle part of "The Spy that Came In From The Cold". I watched about ten minutes worth (Burton, sinking into drink, gets into an altercation with a shopkeeper in order to infiltrate the English Communists), then realized that this was too brilliant not to see in its entirety...

Today is the 50th anniversary of

Posted on March 27, 2009
Today is the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler's death. It is hard to think of a character less Chandleresque than Phillip Marlowe's creator. Here is a set of trailers from movies made of Chandler's work-- I've seen most, but not all. I like Dick Powell's Marlowe, and Elliott Gould's, just about as much as Bogey's, maybe more...

Electronic discovery shouldn't

Posted on March 25, 2009
Electronic discovery shouldn't be a big deal, but somehow everyone seems to get it catastrophically wrong. D.C. Appeals Court Affirms Order Requiring a Non-Party to Spend $6 Million, 9% of its Total Annual Budget, to Comply with an e-Discovery Subpoena...

Wouldn't you think that if you

Posted on March 24, 2009
Wouldn't you think that if you showed this list to the sorts of Americans that favor the death penalty they'd feel bad about being on a list with these other guys? Why isn't this a persuasive argument? What a classy list of countries, you know? Who's missing? I guess there are appalling sub-Saharan African countries that I'd expect to see, but really this reads like a roster of the worst nations in the world, plus Japan and us...

When I was in high school I commuted

Posted on March 22, 2009
When I was in high school I commuted with my father to a summer job in downtown Manhattan. There was quite a bit to like about this, and one of the real pleasures of the experience was exploring the plethora of bookstores-- new and used, but mostly used-- in the area...

I'm not so sure that I'd pay £40

Posted on March 21, 2009
I'm not so sure that I'd pay £40 quid for it, but I like this poster, a reproduction of one produced by the Ministry of Information 1939 enough to make it my current wallpaper. Apparently it is a big hit with the Brits right now.

Popdose is an enjoyable site that

Posted on March 20, 2009
Popdose is an enjoyable site that features essays and music downloads. Lately it has been running a series of essays by producer Tom Werman about his experiences as an A&R man and in the studio which are right in my wheelhouse. Stories about how bands got signed and the business end of the music business are not common, but I love knowing that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley were in a band called Wicked Lester, and that when they made it as KISS Neil Bogart bought back the masters of the Wicked Lester side Epic had purchased so that it wouldn't be released.

When my brother lived on the Upper

Posted on March 19, 2009
When my brother lived on the Upper East Side Kinsale was his local. It was the real deal then, and apparently still is.

I suppose that fake trend stories

Posted on March 18, 2009
I suppose that fake trend stories are such a journalistic staple that they should simply pass without comment, but the notion that the "use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country, upending deliberations and infuriating judges" is something new is too stupid to let pass...

I'm not going to be wanting confit

Posted on March 17, 2009
I'm not going to be wanting confit for a while, what with it being more or less spring and all, but I'll be trying this when October rolls around. And duck pastrami-- I never got to it this winter, but I mean to.

Suddenly prolific, Bob Dylan is

Posted on March 17, 2009
Suddenly prolific, Bob Dylan is releasing a new side at the end of April.

When Rob Rosenbaum is at his worst

Posted on March 14, 2009
When Rob Rosenbaum is at his worst he is so insufferable that I wonder why I bother. Here, for example, he goes into rhapsodies over a song called "Choctaw Bingo". This piece nicely captures the Rosenbaum quirks that most annoy. The hyperbole, for example: Ron thinks this number is "New-national-anthem-level genius...

The lid on the jar of the organic

Posted on March 13, 2009
The lid on the jar of the organic peanut butter that LCA favors has a drawing of a raccoon spreading the product on a piece of bread with a knife. It's not a cartoon raccoon-- it is realistically rendered, and every time I look at it I marvel at the twisted mind that could conjure a knife-wielding raccoon...

I love it when there is a split

Posted on March 12, 2009
I love it when there is a split in the Departments. Because we practice all over New York it means that we have to keep track of what the law is in different places, , but it also means that we can sound erudite. Lots of times that's as much fun as our glamor profession offers...

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