I believe I am smitten with Delia Derbyshire. She was part of the innovative BBC Radiophonic Workshop back in the early 60s and co-created many soundtracks including the Dr. Who theme. This mainstream theme brought electronic music into people’s living rooms for the first time and still holds up after almost 50 years. Delia was […]
The OWS protests aren’t so much about evil bankers but depersonalization and the loss of control that brings. With corporate influence into government you receive faceless unaccountable decision making. Corporatization of healthcare, mortgage lending, and 19thcentury energy resources take advantage of individuals rather than aid them. The person is buried for profits. There is nothing more
This is happening this weekend at the NY Hall of Science. It was pretty tremendous last year. Something for everyone. I’ll be catching up with the Ham radio guys and looking through their vast collection of QSL cards for sure. Need to remember to take pictures this year. I am reminded of my Grandparents going
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It feels like ten years have passed but nothing has really happened. The only progress has been via bubbles whose excitement was redacted by panic. Maybe the disruption has begun. Maybe we are fooling ourselves with our castles in the air. I wonder if are at some invisible turning point of some huge cycle. We’ve misguided
This letter was originally mailed to Paul Auster in about 2000 when he was collecting stories on his NPR radio show Other True Tales. Some of these stories were made into the book True Tales of American Life (First published under the title I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR’s National
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