Mixed Meters

My friend and colleague Tom Brodhead visited Southern California recently from his own private hell, Cleveland Ohio. As we were driving thr...

My wife and resident Marine Biologist, Leslie Harris , spent most of October hunched over her microscope remarkably free of nausea aboard a...

There was a soundbite of Richard Perle, one of the evil neo-cons who got us into our most recent Vietnam, on NPR yesterday as I made yet ano...

This is a very cool music video on YouTube. The accompanying description says this instrument was made of John Deere farm implement parts ...

Where would you expect to find this musical program? "Piano Concerto No 2" by Shostakovich "Transfigured Night" by Schoe...

Maybe a baroque-style oratorio about a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly can. Click here for www.ma...

click here to hear That's It, No More See if you can figure out why I picked that title. Copyright (c) November 14, 2006 by David O...

Musicians have a dismissive saying " Fix it in the mix ". It means that some technical hocus-pocus, long after the recording sessi...

" In which David Combines Leon Redbone with Tico Tico " is a Mixed Meters post from November 30, 2005. Read that for a better ...

Lee Evans is a talented comedic actor who I remember fondly from This Movie and That Movie. Here is a short video of " The Lee Evans ...

Based on an exit poll of one person (me) and with almost all precincts reporting I can now accurately predict yesterday's election here ...