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Wed, 071219
Protest Songs for Today
Filed under: Musicality, Politics, Media — Rick @ 053842CST

Whenever I hear Baby Boomers complain that nobody writes good protest songs anymore, I force them to shut up while I recite this gem by my good friend and musical collaborator Guy Crundwell:

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Tue, 071204
Queen and Bowie
Filed under: Musicality — Rick @ 062209CST

Obviously I’ve been listening to “Under Pressure”. I hadn’t in years, but it started running through my head the other day, so I bought it from iTMS.

And my God, it’s even more fantastic than I remember.

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Wed, 070919
Wars of the Roses
Filed under: Politics — Rick @ 230611CDT

If Hillary is inevitable, and she wins, we’ll end up having had at least 24 years of heads of state from just two families. Does anyone else find a rerun of the intra-Plantagenet rivalry a bit out-of-character for an alleged democratic republic?

iPhone Troubles a Thing of the Past
Filed under: Technology -v- Culture — Rick @ 230208CDT

I’ve been slow with this post: The repaired phone came back, no problem, and has been working fine. The only irksome thing is this: When my wife had a similar problem, only worse — her whole screen went dead — and brought her unit to the Soho Apple Store, she was simply handed a new iPhone. No loaner, no fee. Grrrr.

Sun, 070826
iPhone Troubles Update
Filed under: Technology -v- Culture — Rick @ 233316CDT

I now have a loaner iPhone from Apple — an 8GB model with “AppleCare Service” embossed on the back. So far, I’d say Apple’s performance has been decent, but far from exceptional.

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iPhone Troubles
Filed under: Technology -v- Culture — Rick @ 054820CDT

Saturday was the warmest day in New York since I bought my iPhone. It was also the day when my iPhone developed a dead zone.

That means that right now, my iPhone is one step away from being a $500 brick. I can receive calls — if the touchscreen is locked, that is — but I can’t make them. Nor can I send SMS, check my email, or use the Safari browser.

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Fri, 070824
Low-Power FM Radio: ‘Share it with each other. It’s what you do’
Filed under: Politics, Media — Rick @ 230010CDT

Cross-posted at the Bill Moyers Journal blog.

Imagine climbing a hundred-foot radio tower in the howling headwinds of a Category 3 hurricane so that you can stay on the air and keep your neighbors informed as catastrophe bears down. Or remaining at your post, on the mic and on the air, as floodwaters engulf the radio studio. Or pouring every cent of your income into the station to say on the air the aftermath, even though you’re living in a FEMA-issue trailer because you’ve lost your home and everything in it.

I can’t. But Brice Phillips has done every one of those things. And that’s why he’s one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever met, and an inspiration to those of us who believe that community radio has the power to change lives — and save lives.

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Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends
Filed under: Meta — Rick @ 225439CDT

I’ve neglected this for too long. Time to start posting again. Especially since we may get some incoming….

Wed, 070620
skyscraper
Filed under: Technology -v- Culture — swayframe @ 185215CDT

Calatrava’s fourth design iteration for the new Chicago spire has been approved by the city. It reminds me that the first time I ever saw a skyscraper was in Chicago. Bending my neck back and staring and getting vertigo type of skyscraper. Wow.

Wed, 070124
What do you think I am, a radio?
Filed under: Media — Rick @ 194207CST

That’s my friend Ron Pyke’s variant punchline for one of history’s great anti-jokes.*

This is apropos of the ongoing New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest, which is significantly funnier than the real thing.

* Though I remain a passionate fan of John Cleese’s Frenchmen-in-a-bar-with-a-camel-bartender classic, but I can’t seem to find it online.



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