Monthly Archives: April 2010

The Geek Stops Here

I’ve been a geek for a good long time, possibly from the get-go. When did geekdom first manifest? When I wired my bedroom with a central command box that allowed me to turn the lights and the radio on and … Continue reading

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One Pretty, Two Passions, and One Passionato

I’m taking a break from my records-that-mattered-with-reminiscences series, and talking a bit about present, rather than past, listening. Recently ricocheting around the living room courtesy of Fasolt and Fafner, the twin B&W 803Ds: two Passion settings and one Broadway musical. … Continue reading

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Son of The Records that Mattered

Skipping and singing my way down the Yellow Brick Road in my own private Oz of remembrance and fond celebration, I come to the third in my series of articles on records that made a difference to me either when … Continue reading

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Bride of The Records that Mattered

I don’t know what it is about serial articles that I like so much, but there it is. During my year on Examiner, I was series-mad: I began with a series on the state of classical music (better than common … Continue reading

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The Records that Mattered

Peer under the surface of a record collector such as myself and you’re quite likely to find somebody for whom records were a childhood lifeline. All the buying, cataloging, and arranging of adult life has its origins in earlier life, … Continue reading

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Zeal Turns Toxic

I’ve posted several essays recently on the joys of eating simply and naturally, avoiding heavily processed foods and focusing on lightly-cooked, quality ingredients, and keeping an eye on cholesterol, fats, sugars, salt. I’m a foodie, not a health nut, and … Continue reading

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Progress is Indeed Progress

I’ve been digging a delectable new CD: Gershwin by Grofé, from Steven Richman and the Harmonie Ensemble of New York, on Harmonia Mundi. As the title implies, the album is devoted to Ferde Grofé’s orchestrations of Gershwin’s music for the … Continue reading

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A Domestic Foodie

I may have grown up in Texas and the Midwest. My mother may have bought and served Betty Crocker Potatoes au Gratin. We may have considered Stouffer’s to represent the high end of culinary art. Upon my arrival in Northern … Continue reading

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One Week Later

I’ve been using my new iPad regularly for this past week, getting to know its many capabilities and acquiring a feel for the device. At this point, a progress report. Fit and Finish In some cases the care and detail … Continue reading

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Two Markets

For foodies such as myself, grocery stores are far more than just places you schlep around with a rolling cart. They have the same attraction as dress shops do to female clothes horses, as bookstores to bookworms, as gun stores … Continue reading

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