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Superstar Okay
This is a tune I wrote towards the end of ...

New Song
Though recorded back in 2005 with Fooled By April, I ...

Folsom Prison Blues
Performed at Schubas Tavern in Chicago on January 30, 2008. ...

Musings

Uncompromised Simplicity
Despite studying fifteen years of violin when I was growing up, I rarely listen to classical music these days (yup, it's still mostly jazz, as I've gone on about before...). But I'm a huge fan of the New Yorker's classical music ...

Retortless
I've tried to claim, throughout my many posts endorsing Barack Obama's candidacy, that I have not let foggy notions of hope and a selfish sense of liberal condescension cloud my independent judgment about the upcoming presidential election. To wit, David Brooks's ...

Bitter Irony
Okay, I thought it would blow over. A comment on my blog actually predicted that this little rain shower that began behind closed doors in the Foggy City would swell into a tropical depression, and whaddya know. We may even ...