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I was listening to a twenty years ago recording of Noam Chomsky talking about power and he was making a point about how the rich dominate the poor. At first […]

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Listening to that old Joan Armatrading record. One of her firsts just called Joan Armatrading. The one with Love and Affection, “like a moth with no flame to persuade me”. […]

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Walking in High Park thinking more on the design of Joyce Carol Oates amazing book My life as A Rat when somewhere in the bushes I heard a sax playing […]

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Listening to an interview with cognitive scientist Geoffrey Hinton, often called the godfather of AI. He is concerned about the rapidity of AI and when the interviewer asks him for […]

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I’m currently reading My Life as A Rat by Joyce Carol Oates. It gets worse and worse. She amazes me that the characters go to such horrible places but it’s […]

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Ran into a guitarist who told me he has been playing in the band doing Jersey Boys and as we discussed some of the score he mentioned the song Oh […]

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Nice to listen to Gloria Blizzard talk about her writing and see her framed by the crowd like an old sage. Maybe she is. Anytime I’m in her company I […]

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I like frightening the students who cheat. It seems an intelligent strategy because if you can’t prove what you sense to be true, a student who is lying can insist […]

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Richard Sherman died two weeks ago. He and his brother Robert were composers for a bunch of Disney hits particularly Mary Poppins. I was in Los Angeles when that doc […]