All blog posts:

1. The acoustics of musical instruments
   December 13 2025 music ResourcesForComposers, music-theory, math, physics, acoustics
2. Calculating MIDI note numbers in your head
   November 23 2025 music ResourcesForComposers, music-theory, math, computer-music
3. Nobuyuki Tsujii at Carnegie Hall
   November 6 2025 music reviews, beethoven, piano
4. So long, OneDrive!
   April 18 2025 technology enshittification, microsoft
5. Announcing my new web site: Resources for Jazz Guitar.
   October 18 2024 music jazz, jazz-guitar
6. Resources for Jazz Guitar: three octave runs
   February 1 2023 music altered, diminished, jazz, jazz-guitar, lydian-dominant, music-theory, whole-tone, musictheory
7. Resources For Composers: Violin Pedagogy
   July 30 2022 music pedagogy, violin, musictheory
8. New Fiction From Writer Nora Maynard
   January 11 2022 arts fiction, writing
9. Fun With Triad Cycles
   May 27 2021 music cycles, triads
10. The next note is never more than a whole-tone away
    May 11 2021 music musictheory
11. A fun way to derive the melodic minor scale
    April 12 2021 music melodicminor, musictheory, wholetone
12. The “Minor 6/9 Shape” Harmonized
    April 9 2021 music musictheory
13. A few tidbits on the melodic minor
    March 6 2021 music musictheory
14. Tidbit: Locally Diatonic Scales
    February 15 2021 music musictheory
15. Tritone Fun Facts, Part One
    April 6 2020 music musictheory
16. A busy week in jazz, and writing!
    October 16 2019 music
17. Altered Scale Minor 3rd Transpositions
    April 22 2019 music altered-scale, diminished-scale, jazz-theory, octatonic-scale
18. Quartal Harmony: Tetrachords
    July 20 2018 music altered-scale, diminished-scale, jazz, jazz-theory, octatonic-scale, quartal-harmony
19. Quartal Harmony: Trichords
    July 19 2018 music altered-scale, diminished-scale, jazz, jazz-theory, octatonic-scale, quartal-harmony
20. Quartal Harmony: Dyads
    July 18 2018 music jazztheory, musictheory, quartal, harmony, jazz
21. A Mode For Every Day Of The Year
    July 16 2018 music modes, musictheory, practiceroutine, jazz
22. A Glass-Steagall Act For Journalism
    June 25 2018 news democracy, journalism, trumpcrisis
23. NEUROLOGICALLY DIVERGENT - A Dramatic Recitiation
    April 24 2018 music hip-hop, musicgenres, pulitzerprize
24. Early Beethoven
    April 16 2018 music beethoven, beethoven-listen-project, classical-music
25. Was Brahms Quoting Beethoven?
    February 24 2018 music beethoven, beethoven-listen-project, brahms
26. Beethoven Listening Project
    January 6 2018 music beethoven, beethoven-listen-project, classical-music
27. Dear Damien Chazelle
    April 22 2017 film music
28. Mondestrunken
    March 4 2017 film music
29. Drop-2 Chord Fun Facts
    July 7 2013 music
30. Site cleanup
    October 16 2011 news
31. On Claude Vivier's Zipangu
    October 16 2011 music
32. Nawlins Sazerac tour
    July 23 2010 travel
33. realtime review: quantum of solace
    May 1 2010 film
34. fun with time's arrow
    April 25 2010 etc
35. which is more outmoded?
    April 24 2010 technology
36. How You Like Me Now?
    January 30 2010 music
37. cyberkrunk labs
    January 29 2010 technology music
38. lifecycles
    January 28 2010 arts writing
39. The Coolin
    April 26 2008 etc
40. On first looking into the Flatiron Lounge
    April 26 2008 etc
41. La vie en road
    April 10 2008 travel
42. An unlikely turn of events
    March 8 2008 music
43. More Like This
    February 24 2008 music
44. 3:10 to Yuma
    January 12 2008 film
45. In case you need some cheering up...
    December 3 2007 music
46. Notes on the new Home Theatre
    November 11 2007 technology
47. Race Day!
    November 4 2007 etc
48. Sex Pistols on Ferguson
    November 1 2007 music
49. Sex Pistols on Leno
    October 31 2007 music
50. Hey, they stole my iPod!
    October 26 2007 travel
51. Hey, they broke my watch!
    September 16 2007 film
52. Speaking of Philip K. Dick
    August 19 2007 etc
53. Are Dream Jokes Real?
    July 3 2007 etc
54. Sometimes I Just Think Funny Things
    July 2 2007 etc
55. Lightning Struck Itself: Television at SummerStage
    June 17 2007 music
56. Lines of the Millennium
    June 1 2007 music
57. Whole lotta Hadrons
    May 15 2007 technology
58. Back to Stem Cells
    May 14 2007 etc
59. Hey Nagel--not done with you yet!
    May 12 2007 etc
60. Nagel on Realism
    April 29 2007 etc
61. New DAWg
    April 28 2007 music
62. Today's Meme
    April 22 2007 etc
63. ex tenebris
    April 21 2007 music
64. Celluloid Potty
    March 11 2007 film
65. Seen this weekend
    February 11 2007 etc
66. In which I go to Best Buy and get a bunch of CDs
    February 3 2007 music
67. Bits 'n pieces
    January 28 2007 etc film, travel
68. I'm IT!
    January 19 2007 etc
69. To Daffodils
    January 18 2007 etc
70. Greed and Wickedness
    January 15 2007 film travel
71. Harlem Saturday Night
    January 14 2007 music
72. Some RSS Evangelism
    January 13 2007 technology web
73. Billsers
    January 13 2007 etc
74. Marion's Gastrointestinal
    January 7 2007 etc
75. What's up with the blog, anyway?
    January 6 2007 etc
76. Post post post punk
    December 29 2006 music
77. whither funky?
    December 27 2006 music
78. Rye, Robot
    December 27 2006 etc
79. Speaking of mind/body
    December 13 2006 etc
80. i, six non-blogs
    December 9 2006 etc
81. Sirenspotting
    December 5 2006 etc
82. About the new tunes
    October 5 2006 music
83. In a station of the metro
    October 2 2006 etc
84. A la recherche du vinyle perdu
    October 1 2006 music technology
85. One-upping the Dionnes
    September 24 2006 film preston-sturges, screwball-comedy
86. Borat
    September 24 2006 film
87. John Scofield Trio at the Blue Note
    September 17 2006 music jazz, octatonic-scale
88. 2005 Movie Capsule Reviews
    September 3 2006 film
89. Keep on Rockin' in the AARP World
    September 2 2006 music
90. The Second Great Quintet
    July 1 2006 music jazz
91. New York: HSH
    June 25 2006 travel nyc, music
92. Intermezzo
    June 24 2006 travel new-york, paris, rome
93. Paris blogging: victoire a vendredi
    June 23 2006 travel paris, food-blogging
94. Paris blogging: vendredi encore
    June 23 2006 travel paris
95. Roma blogging: giovedi. Ciao, Roma!
    June 22 2006 travel rome, wine
96. Roma blogging: mercoledì 2 cena, or "Trampin-in-Trastavere"
    June 21 2006 travel rome, food-blogging, wine
97. Roma blogging: mercoledì 1 pranzo
    June 21 2006 travel rome, food-blogging, wine
98. Roma blogging: martedì cena
    June 20 2006 travel rome, food-blogging, wine, cocktails, ibf, pizza
99. Paris Blogging: Samedi Marchons!
    June 17 2006 travel paris
100. Paris Blogging: Bagatelle
     June 17 2006 travel paris
101. Paris Blogging: Vendredi
     June 16 2006 travel paris, food-blogging
102. Paris Blogging: Jeudi
     June 15 2006 travel paris
103. Paris Blogging: Jeudi Part Deux
     June 15 2006 travel paris
104. Paris Blogging: Mercredi
     June 14 2006 travel paris, food-blogging, wine
105. Paris Blogging: Mardi
     June 13 2006 travel paris, food-blogging, nyc, wine
106. New York: Double Happiness
     June 11 2006 etc new-york
107. Mallecontent
     June 11 2006 film
108. iGarbage
     June 7 2006 music technology
109. Roma blogging: martedì—pranzo
     June 6 2006 travel rome, food-blogging, wine
110. Little Stephen
     April 30 2006 etc
111. To the editors of the New Yorker
     April 22 2006 etc
112. Let's Get Fooled Again!
     April 16 2006 etc politics
113. Paris: Les Grèves
     April 8 2006 etc
114. It's all a popularity contest
     April 6 2006 etc
115. Two Coyote Stories
     April 1 2006 etc
116. A Living Legend
     March 26 2006 music
117. More good things from Austria
     March 25 2006 etc
118. Two neo-noirs from unlikely sources
     March 18 2006 film
119. Ignorance and certainty
     March 18 2006 etc
120. Stonewalled again, or Erin go brouhaha
     March 17 2006 etc new-york
121. Demics Rule!
     March 17 2006 music
122. Lars von Trier
     March 12 2006 film
123. The L-train word
     March 11 2006 music new-york
124. Clickradio back in the news
     March 8 2006 news music, technology
125. Heart of Gold
     March 4 2006 film music
126. Critical listening
     March 4 2006 music technology
127. A request from Bay Street
     March 4 2006 music
128. Is Bert Evil?
     March 3 2006 etc
129. When the levee breaks
     March 2 2006 etc
130. Dubya, Dubai and the 1993 WTC bombing
     February 26 2006 etc politics
131. Sedrick: Hell Yeah!
     February 20 2006 music
132. Theatre Review: Jazzabel
     February 19 2006 arts jazz, music
133. New York: Sunday Blizzard Blogging
     February 13 2006 etc nyc
134. Coffee Tawk: No Big Whoop
     February 13 2006 etc
135. Things, Alex
     January 29 2006 etc
136. N.A.M. goes a-blogging
     January 24 2006 etc
137. New York: West 27th? And Where?
     January 8 2006 etc nyc
138. Two movie picks: guard your wallet!
     December 31 2005 film
139. Smokin' on the UWS
     December 29 2005 music jazz
140. Toronto: High Atop Bloor
     December 23 2005 travel toronto
141. Saturday Cat Blogging! 2
     December 10 2005 etc cats
142. Violated on the Bowery
     December 3 2005 music
143. New York: The Found Weekend
     November 16 2005 etc
144. The all spins zone
     October 26 2005 music
145. Quack!
     October 23 2005 etc politics
146. Joni said it right
     October 23 2005 music
147. You can't always get what you want
     October 22 2005 etc
148. San Francisco: An SFO Story
     October 22 2005 travel
149. Give 'em heck, Harriet
     October 11 2005 etc politics
150. Jimi got it right
     October 9 2005 music
151. Rodgers that
     September 25 2005 music
152. Fun with the thesaurus
     September 23 2005 news politics
153. Frankentheo Zappamonk
     September 16 2005 etc
154. The Crisis in Leadership
     September 13 2005 news politics
155. The return of the thin white duke
     September 12 2005 film
156. Over, Under, Sideways, Down
     September 7 2005 travel
157. A small break from the dogmatic slumber?
     September 7 2005 etc politics
158. san fran
     September 3 2005 etc
159. They're Back?
     August 20 2005 etc film
160. Saturday Cat Blogging? 1
     August 13 2005 etc cats
161. Rock 'n Roll politics
     August 13 2005 etc politics, music
162. Fizzle, fo-shizzle
     August 12 2005 etc
163. From Cinemarred to Keano Kino
     August 9 2005 film
164. A.N.N.O.Y.I.N.G.
     August 8 2005 etc
165. Positing an alternate reality
     August 6 2005 etc politics
166. yo brutha! / Hey-Micky!
     August 3 2005 etc oscars
167. Our first poetry submission
     August 3 2005 etc
168. Lawrence Tierney: old school tough guy
     July 31 2005 film film-noir
169. The long-awaited return of Friday Cat Blogging!
     July 29 2005 etc cats
170. Command Blogging
     July 29 2005 travel
171. Whole lotta Jankowskis
     June 19 2005 etc marathon, running
172. Proof that advertising works
     May 21 2005 music
173. Movie Review: Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith
     May 19 2005 film reviews
174. Things that go boom... chuppa-chup-chup-chup in the night
     May 5 2005 news new-york
175. Breaking News!
     May 5 2005 news
176. Enron
     April 29 2005 etc politics
177. Steve Martin, tax attorney
     April 27 2005 etc enron, tyco
178. Politcs and the Schiavo story
     April 7 2005 news politics, schiavo
179. Off to the races
     April 6 2005 etc bob-glover, nyrr, running
180. Firewire audio interfaces & such
     April 6 2005 technology audio
181. In their own words
     April 1 2005 news politics
182. Friday Cat Blogging! 4
     March 25 2005 etc cats
183. Les Paul at Iridium
     March 22 2005 music reviews, guitar, jazz, blues, nyc
184. Another sad day for NYC
     March 21 2005 news nyc, music
185. Sunday bobble-head blogging
     March 20 2005 news politics
186. New York: Thursday St. Paddy's blogging
     March 18 2005 etc nyc
187. Friday Cat Blogging! 3
     March 18 2005 etc cats
188. Cascading Style Sheets: some web design evangelism
     March 18 2005 technology web
189. Last call at the Oak Bar
     March 14 2005 news vanishing-new-york, nyc, oakbar, cocktails
190. The Rice Filibuster
     March 13 2005 news journalism, politics
191. Covert Propaganda
     March 13 2005 etc fake-news, journalism, politics
192. Friday Cat Blogging! 2
     March 11 2005 etc cats
193. Remember Googlezon?
     March 8 2005 technology
194. CBGB MBGBB
     March 8 2005 news vanishing-new-york, nyc
195. New York: The Plaza closing its doors
     March 6 2005 news vanishing-new-york, nyc, oakbar, cocktails
196. Friday Cat Blogging 1
     March 4 2005 etc cats
197. There and Back Again
     March 2 2005 travel paris, nyc
198. Sweety Das Kuken and other weird iMemes
     March 2 2005 etc travel, ringtones, bands, memes
199. (ex-) Sedrick fan #1
     March 1 2005 music ottawa, bands, punk
200. 10 great movies
     February 22 2005 film reviews
201. Gates of heck
     February 19 2005 arts nyc
202. Composer John Sherlock declared Leader and/or Dreamer
     December 2 2004 music composers
203. George Tsontakis wins Grawemeyer
     December 1 2004 music composers
204. Welcome to the new site
     November 29 2004 news technology