Mixed Meters

This post describes the highpoints of my day Wednesday. The arrow points roughly to where I sat around for the entire day on the 11th floor ...

Earlier this year I received an email from Matthias Kassel of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland. He had a few questions abou...

click here to hear Model A Mazda . The shortest 30 Second Spot ever in honor of the longest day of the year. Model A Mazda has only one pitc...

click here to hear The Cross Is So Frickin' Cool Pasadena has a number of seminaries. Sitting near me in Starbucks one day were three y...

Does anyone remember The Strange Case of the Lost Rabbit? Video: How does the chicken cross the road? or maybe Danc...

Today is Bloomsday - the 102nd anniversary of the day chronicled in minute detail by James Joyce in Ulysses . Any day can be an odyssey. I...

click here to hear Oh, Was He Still Around? I confess - the title was my first thought upon hearing about the death of György Ligeti. Copyr...

click here to hear Flakes (Desiccant) - this was an episode in a longer piece - but it was too boring even for that. So here it is as a spo...

Leslie's book collection has a large number of novels that have been translated into English. Within that category many were originally ...

I love this joke: Q. What's the difference between Kenny G. and an automatic weapon? A. Eventually the gun stops repeating. How does Ken...

Wednesday night, sitting in the fourth row of Disney Hall, I heard the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, perform Str...