Thanks for all the feedback and visiting to the blog. Appreciated the positive vibes that I am getting from everyone. It appears as if in addition to my thoughts, we should have an abundance of comments from abroad, with readers right now in Spain, Denmark, England and Hong Kong.
What an amazing weekend! Aimed to maximize the amount of time spent out in the sun and did a pretty impressive job. The tan is starting to come around.
By the numbers:
Hours at the beach 6.0
Hours at the park 2.0
Hours on my bike .5
Hours at the Art Fair 4.0
Total Time Outside 12.5.hours…
Just had to run the numbers right quick.
Respond, React and Talk Back
Paul Cella, my freshman year roommate and a part-time political commentator, offered this riposte to my Machiavelli quote…
"As regards your favorable quotation of Machiavelli: To even approach Niccolo Machiavelli is to play with fire. His project was nothing less than the overturning of the political philosophy of the ancients -- Plato, Cicero, etc. He was, of course, successful: Machiavelli represents the intellectual genesis of modernity in politics. The great Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt wrote of him "the objectivity of his political judgment is sometimes appalling in its sincerity." Machiavelli sought to construct a science of governing -- but first he had to deconstruct the towering edifice of virtue and morals and ethics that so interested the ancients. Reading of the casual, pervasive brutality, impiety and unscrupulousness of the early Renaissance despotism of Italy, one is inclined to sympathize with him; but nevertheless, we must consider Machiavelli the great profaner of politics. Some have argued, persuasively, that Machiavelli's intellect was so powerful that his influence remains fundamentally unchallenged even now: that there has not been a truly new political philosopher in nearly five hundred years."
Gavin Williams, arguably the authority when it comes to Pittsburgh Sports and someone who already has a stint at espn under his belt, offered this rant on the Doug Christie and the nba…
Doug Christie and the NBA:
I hope his wife enjoys choking because that's what Doug's forte seems to be. If you can't hit the inside of the rim with a wide open look at that level given five looks at it in crunch time, you have no earthly business being on the floor. Especially with the fearless Bobby Jackson sitting idly by. A special and related jeer to Peja Stojakovic who can win the NBA three point contest with relative ease but can't even draw iron from that very same distance with a chance to send his Kings to the finals. What a joke – Mike Bibby's back must be exhausted from carrying those wannabes that far. And someone please tell Hedo Turkoglu to guard someone, cause I'm still waiting. For all those haters of Duncan and even Webber to an extent, when you are triple-teamed in the post it does you no good at all to try and get to the basket or force a post move no matter how good you are. Eventually your teammates have to pose some type of threat to score or a team as savvy as LA will simply allow you the opportunity to beat yourself. Ask the Spurs and Kings - bet they'd knock down those looks in practice, right Danny Ferry? And for you Jason Kidd for MVP followers, see how many triple doubles he'd have with Bruce Bowen, Malik Rose and the washed up twins David Robinson and Steve Smith on the other end of his passes. Quite possibly the worst supporting cast ever.
The Duvs emailed about starting his own blog, The Looking Glass, and offers up an article on purchasing a home versus renting. An aptly timed article for this audience, as many of us, myself included are currently wrestling with this idea.
Crump also requested some love for the US after they defeated Portugal in what wass the biggest victory in US World Cup history. Here is an interesting story on the ballsballs being used and the US reaction. Look for another resounding victory tomorrow morning versus the host country. As for the Italians, some how the Croats stole a game as two goals were disallowed, look for them to bounce back in the next game. Check out this diary for some interesting World Cup happenings.
This section of the blog should provide insight from various perspectives and endless entertainment.
The Hot Music
News, Politics and Notes
This Onion Article was picked up a Beijing wire and used as news. Granted Congress makes some outlandish spending decisions, but demanding a retractable roof and moving to Toronto or Memphis probably wouldn’t be one of them.
The disturbing Daniel Peral execution video that literally made me sick to my stomach.
Two amazing article by Thomas Sowell, who I have been grossly negligent in keeping up with lately. There is no free lunch, and an interesting take on stereotypes about stereotypes.
Music
Music Business is becoming the book business…A must read. An interesting article especially with the ease that one can go to audiogalaxy.com or winmx.com and dl entire albums. This article does an exceptional job of breakdown the key reason that the music industry is more or less screwed.
“The music business suddenly had to start producing music according to very stringent (if unwritten) commercial guidelines (it could have objected or rebelled -- but it rolled over instead; what's more, in a complicated middleman strategy of music brokers and independent promoters, labels have, in effect, been forced to pay to have their boring music aired). Format became law. Everything had to sound the way it was supposed to sound. Fungibility was king. Familiarity was the greatest virtue.
And then there is the CD theory. This theory is widely accepted -- with great pride, in fact -- in the music industry. It represents the ultimate music-biz hustle. But its implications are seldom played out. The CD theory holds that the music business actually died about twenty years ago. It was revived without anyone knowing it had actually died because compact-disc technology came along and everybody had to replace what they'd bought for the twenty years prior to the advent of the CD.
The music business, this theory acknowledges, is about selling technology as much as music. From mono to stereo to Walkman. It just happens that the next stage of technological development in the music business has largely excluded the music business itself.
It wasn't just that it was free music -- radio offered free music. But whatever you wanted was free (whenever you wanted it). The Internet is music consumerism run amok, resulting not only in billions of dollars of lost sales but in an endless bifurcation of taste. The universe fragmented into sub-universes, and then sub-sub-universes. The music industry, which depends on large numbers of people with similar interests for its profit margins, now had to deal with an ever-growing numbers of fans with increasingly diverse and eccentric interests.”
A great interview with Blackalicious…
J-Lo has split from her hubby Cris Judd after being married for less than a year. An unconfirmed rumor in the New York Post says P. Diddy had a little something to do with the separation.
Lifestyle
Drink green tea because as John Baradi explains…
Green Tea — Green tea, in our opinion, should be a staple beverage of any dietary regimen. In addition to the thermogenic, anti-cancer and cardio-protective benefits, green tea prevents lipid peroxidation as well as aiding in the cellular defense of the ROS released during carcinogenesis
Sports
I think everyone I know watched the Tyson-Lewis shenanigans on Saturday night. The fight itself was a joke with Lennox just beating Mike senselessly. Was it me or did Tyson go three or four rounds without even landing a punch? The most enjoyable part of the fight took place in the stands. The white guy that sat next to the rock was hysterical and the MVP of the fight. He had to have logged at least 25 cell phone conversations and then he kept looking up in the air and just yelling. The guy in the cream-colored suit guy, who stood up every five seconds, also provided some entertainment. Craig David, who sported a skullcap, kept doing combinations in the stands, apparently attempting to will his fellow Englishmen to victory. Hands down the most disturbing scene, even worse than Tyson’s face, took place when Iron Mike had a love fest with Lewis after the fight. I am half expecting to see Tyson begging for money on the corner selling streetwise newspapers.
Miscellaneous
Chelsey congrats on graduating...You go girl.
That’s it for the extra long Sunday night installment.
Have a good week.
What an amazing weekend! Aimed to maximize the amount of time spent out in the sun and did a pretty impressive job. The tan is starting to come around.
By the numbers:
Hours at the beach 6.0
Hours at the park 2.0
Hours on my bike .5
Hours at the Art Fair 4.0
Total Time Outside 12.5.hours…
Just had to run the numbers right quick.
Respond, React and Talk Back
Paul Cella, my freshman year roommate and a part-time political commentator, offered this riposte to my Machiavelli quote…
"As regards your favorable quotation of Machiavelli: To even approach Niccolo Machiavelli is to play with fire. His project was nothing less than the overturning of the political philosophy of the ancients -- Plato, Cicero, etc. He was, of course, successful: Machiavelli represents the intellectual genesis of modernity in politics. The great Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt wrote of him "the objectivity of his political judgment is sometimes appalling in its sincerity." Machiavelli sought to construct a science of governing -- but first he had to deconstruct the towering edifice of virtue and morals and ethics that so interested the ancients. Reading of the casual, pervasive brutality, impiety and unscrupulousness of the early Renaissance despotism of Italy, one is inclined to sympathize with him; but nevertheless, we must consider Machiavelli the great profaner of politics. Some have argued, persuasively, that Machiavelli's intellect was so powerful that his influence remains fundamentally unchallenged even now: that there has not been a truly new political philosopher in nearly five hundred years."
Gavin Williams, arguably the authority when it comes to Pittsburgh Sports and someone who already has a stint at espn under his belt, offered this rant on the Doug Christie and the nba…
Doug Christie and the NBA:
I hope his wife enjoys choking because that's what Doug's forte seems to be. If you can't hit the inside of the rim with a wide open look at that level given five looks at it in crunch time, you have no earthly business being on the floor. Especially with the fearless Bobby Jackson sitting idly by. A special and related jeer to Peja Stojakovic who can win the NBA three point contest with relative ease but can't even draw iron from that very same distance with a chance to send his Kings to the finals. What a joke – Mike Bibby's back must be exhausted from carrying those wannabes that far. And someone please tell Hedo Turkoglu to guard someone, cause I'm still waiting. For all those haters of Duncan and even Webber to an extent, when you are triple-teamed in the post it does you no good at all to try and get to the basket or force a post move no matter how good you are. Eventually your teammates have to pose some type of threat to score or a team as savvy as LA will simply allow you the opportunity to beat yourself. Ask the Spurs and Kings - bet they'd knock down those looks in practice, right Danny Ferry? And for you Jason Kidd for MVP followers, see how many triple doubles he'd have with Bruce Bowen, Malik Rose and the washed up twins David Robinson and Steve Smith on the other end of his passes. Quite possibly the worst supporting cast ever.
The Duvs emailed about starting his own blog, The Looking Glass, and offers up an article on purchasing a home versus renting. An aptly timed article for this audience, as many of us, myself included are currently wrestling with this idea.
Crump also requested some love for the US after they defeated Portugal in what wass the biggest victory in US World Cup history. Here is an interesting story on the ballsballs being used and the US reaction. Look for another resounding victory tomorrow morning versus the host country. As for the Italians, some how the Croats stole a game as two goals were disallowed, look for them to bounce back in the next game. Check out this diary for some interesting World Cup happenings.
This section of the blog should provide insight from various perspectives and endless entertainment.
The Hot Music
News, Politics and Notes
This Onion Article was picked up a Beijing wire and used as news. Granted Congress makes some outlandish spending decisions, but demanding a retractable roof and moving to Toronto or Memphis probably wouldn’t be one of them.
The disturbing Daniel Peral execution video that literally made me sick to my stomach.
Two amazing article by Thomas Sowell, who I have been grossly negligent in keeping up with lately. There is no free lunch, and an interesting take on stereotypes about stereotypes.
Music
Music Business is becoming the book business…A must read. An interesting article especially with the ease that one can go to audiogalaxy.com or winmx.com and dl entire albums. This article does an exceptional job of breakdown the key reason that the music industry is more or less screwed.
“The music business suddenly had to start producing music according to very stringent (if unwritten) commercial guidelines (it could have objected or rebelled -- but it rolled over instead; what's more, in a complicated middleman strategy of music brokers and independent promoters, labels have, in effect, been forced to pay to have their boring music aired). Format became law. Everything had to sound the way it was supposed to sound. Fungibility was king. Familiarity was the greatest virtue.
And then there is the CD theory. This theory is widely accepted -- with great pride, in fact -- in the music industry. It represents the ultimate music-biz hustle. But its implications are seldom played out. The CD theory holds that the music business actually died about twenty years ago. It was revived without anyone knowing it had actually died because compact-disc technology came along and everybody had to replace what they'd bought for the twenty years prior to the advent of the CD.
The music business, this theory acknowledges, is about selling technology as much as music. From mono to stereo to Walkman. It just happens that the next stage of technological development in the music business has largely excluded the music business itself.
It wasn't just that it was free music -- radio offered free music. But whatever you wanted was free (whenever you wanted it). The Internet is music consumerism run amok, resulting not only in billions of dollars of lost sales but in an endless bifurcation of taste. The universe fragmented into sub-universes, and then sub-sub-universes. The music industry, which depends on large numbers of people with similar interests for its profit margins, now had to deal with an ever-growing numbers of fans with increasingly diverse and eccentric interests.”
A great interview with Blackalicious…
J-Lo has split from her hubby Cris Judd after being married for less than a year. An unconfirmed rumor in the New York Post says P. Diddy had a little something to do with the separation.
Lifestyle
Drink green tea because as John Baradi explains…
Green Tea — Green tea, in our opinion, should be a staple beverage of any dietary regimen. In addition to the thermogenic, anti-cancer and cardio-protective benefits, green tea prevents lipid peroxidation as well as aiding in the cellular defense of the ROS released during carcinogenesis
Sports
I think everyone I know watched the Tyson-Lewis shenanigans on Saturday night. The fight itself was a joke with Lennox just beating Mike senselessly. Was it me or did Tyson go three or four rounds without even landing a punch? The most enjoyable part of the fight took place in the stands. The white guy that sat next to the rock was hysterical and the MVP of the fight. He had to have logged at least 25 cell phone conversations and then he kept looking up in the air and just yelling. The guy in the cream-colored suit guy, who stood up every five seconds, also provided some entertainment. Craig David, who sported a skullcap, kept doing combinations in the stands, apparently attempting to will his fellow Englishmen to victory. Hands down the most disturbing scene, even worse than Tyson’s face, took place when Iron Mike had a love fest with Lewis after the fight. I am half expecting to see Tyson begging for money on the corner selling streetwise newspapers.
Miscellaneous
Chelsey congrats on graduating...You go girl.
That’s it for the extra long Sunday night installment.
Have a good week.
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