Monthly Archives: December 2011
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
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Just found a great World Music blog
Just stumbled across another great WordPress blog. Or rather, they stumbled across me. I got a “like” from Xandimusic, a 16-year-old music fan who runs xworldmusic, with the help of contributors Mirília, Wendy and Kapitololo. The blog focuses on one … Continue reading
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Boxing Day Junkanoo in the Bahamas (and all we get is Christmas?)
Does anybody really celebrate on Boxing Day? In the Bahamas, yes they do! Growing up in America, Boxing Day has always been a mysterious thing, something we know little about except that it says “Boxing Day (Canada)” on a lot … Continue reading
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We’ve lost the King, but not his face…
Watching the mass displays of grief upon Kim Jong Il’s death, it’s hard to even imagine what it would be like, living in a totalitarian personality cult, then having the focus of all your fear and worship die. You probably … Continue reading
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Jogja Hip Hop Foundation – tradition, innovation and mad beats
Tradition and innovation… You might think those are polar opposites, but it turns out that isn’t true. I just discovered something new and amazing that is helping to keep some beautiful traditions alive. Young people tend to like novel ideas … Continue reading
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2012 could be a very bad year for the Internet. Did the Mayans foresee SOPA?
Imagine riding in a car and the driver smashes through a sign that says “Bridge Out!” You try to warn him but he tells you to shut up. “This road will take us to grandma’s house. It says so right … Continue reading
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Urgh! A Music War – Suppose they gave a music war and everybody came?
Getting older sure does sneak up on a person (I won’t cop to “old” just yet, just “older”). It’s a shock to consider that people born in 1994 are now old enough to vote. To me, the modern world began … Continue reading
Idling at Terminal 21
Excellent article about the Occupy movement from a poor truck driver affected by the West Coast port shutdown. Idling at Terminal 21.
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Zach Anner’s show, ‘Rollin’ with Zach’ will premier on Monday, Dec. 12
Just an update in case you haven’t kept up. A while back I wrote about Zach Anner, a comedian in a wheelchair who won a show on Oprah Winfrey’s new cable network with huge support from fans on the Internet. … Continue reading
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The Listening Room is no more – RIP
When you take things for granted they tend to go away when you’re not looking. That has apparently happened to The Listening Room, one of my favorite places to share music (I posted about it a while back). I got … Continue reading →
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