A Building Roam

Two weeks without any posts. Not a nice way to treat a perfectly good blog. As I've indicated a few times recently, my life is pretty ...

As embarrassing as the pop and glitter music that parades itself as hip hop may be to the true fan of Rhythm And Poetry, and as ubiquitous ...

Painted in 1901, destroyed by a fire in 1945. I hear music in my head whenever I look at Klimt's work.

Somebody put together a great video for this track by YNQ (otherwise known as Madlib pretending to be a jazz quintet all by himself). It d...

Irene knocks down a tree in Central Park (Mario Tama/Getty Images) This was initially supposed to be written at the end of July or beg...

After finally completing that big list about James Joyce in the last post , I wanted to let it simmer atop the page for a while. I didn...

I actually started to write this over a year ago and now it's finally complete. It was originally intended to be posted on June 16 ...

A recent piece in The Guardian by Carol Birch provides a short but beautifully accurate summation of the art of James Joyce, particularly F...

His final game in a Mets uniform was a typical Carlos Beltran performance. Two walks, a single, an RBI, and 3 runs scored. He went out in pe...

The excitement of the 2011 major league baseball season suddenly burst into supernova recently. It all began late Tuesday night in Atlanta. ...

Saturday morning I had to get up very early, around 6 AM, to drive my girlfriend to work. Bursting out of sleep and into consciousness so ea...