All blog posts:

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