Years ago in New Orleans for one week, mixing our record at Danny Lanois’s studio, I would walk three blocks to the health food store and strangers strolling past me […]

The students are starting to hand in their “write a bad song” assignment. Predictably there are people being out of tune or cacophonous and that’s cool, though sometimes someone knocks […]

Yesterday, a distant cousin of one cop, was allowed to sit on the jury that found the three White cops not guilty of killing a Black man in Georgia, tasered […]

I finished the book about A Tribe Called Quest by Hannif Abdurraquib. He sure is/was in love with ATCQ. Makes me think of things I have been in love with, […]

In a recent class, they started discussing ethics, which led to discussing the ethics of people determining what is ethical, which led to some addressing the fact that some were […]

I get sick once or twice a year, every year, forever. I always thought it’s about resistance, it’s up or down and didn’t care if people around me were sick. […]

While walking the other night I turned a corner and saw two small animals in the distance, looking like two chickens waddling but turned out two skunks, one fat and […]

Started to figure out who the heads of the departments are. I wrote letters, cold calls. Rejection is nothing to cry about but to score just once, means the world […]

“The toughest and meanest often aren’t for hire. Think of water, it kills fire. Most amazing of the amazing, water is the shit, behind inspiring speeches – always pools of […]

While listening to Martha Argerich playing Kreisleriana by Robert Schumann, I realized all the great interpreter musicians adhere to the composer’s directions like GPS getting you closer to the brain […]