Day: June 17, 2006

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Taking a break

  By About me

I will be out of town for the next two weeks so blogging may be less frequent than usual. This is, however, a working trip. We will be traveling to Cape Cod where I hope to explore ideas for how best to use waterfront properties. Perhaps I will come up with something better than casinos. I may also start posting some of the ideas I have saved up that have little to do with politics, such as the last post. Or, if after a week of R&R I have the energy to think about politics, maybe I will get back to some of the more general ideas about how to improve our political life that I was writing about two months ago. We shall see. At any rate, I just check the stats for my blog and I was surprised to find out that a thousand or fifteen hundred of… Continue reading

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Advice for young people: be careful what you listen to

  By Music

I am of the age where young people in their late teens and twenties, and especially my students at Temple, ask me for general advice about life. I can give plenty of advice, but most of it would take a long time to explain and I save it for articles and books I write. Here is the one piece of advice I can give quickly: choose the music you listen to when you are young—that is, when you are falling in the love for the first time—wisely because that is going to be the music that rocks you for the rest of your life. These days, the music I listen to is mostly jazz. I love the classics-Duke, Parker, Monk, Trane, Sonny, Ornette and, most of all, Miles. But I also spend time exploring new avant garde jazz made by people whose names are not widely known and who, in… Continue reading