Month: February 2012
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Post #32: Why We Watch (The Jeremy Lin Show)
There’s often good cause to question our culture’s obsession with sports. Large chunks of it are dedicated to discussing, debating, observing, coddling, and paying for games while there are vastly more important issues (you know, like, say, poverty) who receive so much less face time relevant to their actual importance…
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Post #31: Lush Life
Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” is one of my very favorite songs. Melancholy and haunting, full of experience and regret and a kind of upbeat sadness. Or, if not upbeat, at least still standing. Plus when’s the last time you heard a song that had a line like “Where one…
Benjamin Roesch 