A chilly 17 November
Hello folks.
I made it back for round two and while very few care about my politics or taste in music, food and travel, here goes. Remember, this is about the writing of not the reading of.
Politics
The election is not really over and I continue to try and fill the enormous amount of time I spent on the election. I still enjoy Nate Silver's http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/. It is still insightful though I miss the several times a day polling updates. Three senate seats (Alaska, Minnesota and Georgia) remain to be settled and the Obama appointments are a source of interest. The IBM's 60 Minutes interview showed a wonderful family and a president to be trusted, who is reasoned, focused and funny, yet someone with whom I would enjoy watching a ball game.
It’s not too early to start thinking about 2010 congressional races and several could be interesting. More later as it becomes clearer.
Music
My music purchases, both downloads and physical product (and legal free downloads) of the week will be a regular feature. This week:
Au Revoir Simone, Reverse Migration, remixes
Brett Dennen, Hope for the Hopeless, great indie folk
Blue Giant, Target Heart, alt country
Gilfema, Gilfema + 2, worldbeat jazz
Little Joy, Little Joy, from Strokes drummer Fab Moretti
Postmarks, By the Numbers, delightful covers based on number titles
School of Seven Bells, Alpinisms, electronic indie pop
Snow Patrol, A Hundred Million Suns, new from the now-famous Britpopers
Stars, Sad Robots EP, dreamy pop
The folks at emusic provide wonderful free downloads daily and have been on a roll lately. It’s a great way to discover new music.
It’s almost time for everyone to do the best of 2008 lists. We will do here over the next couple of weeks.
Food
My family's restaurant, Cafe Lou Lou in Louisville, KY opened a second location this week serving casual Mediterrean/Italian food with a New Orleans twist. More on our food with some recipes later.
Travel
We are putting together a feature on New Orleans, off the tourist path, over the next couple of issues. I'm looking for suggestions for a planned trip to Paris in April.
Thank you for the opportunity to vent, to release, to be busy enough in semi-retirement to be out of my entrepreneur wife’s way. Bruce Springsteen may have put it best, when he acknowledged his audience with, “Thanks for the gift of your attention.” As a footnote, even though this is not really a footnote, I love not having to attribute quotes when I choose not to. Thanks again…jimbeaux
Monday, November 17, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Friday 7 November (barely)
My first entry. Wow. One of the blog hosting sites suggests starting with Hello World! But I don't use exclamation points, so I guess not. The about me will say that I am a sort of retired (does that mean tired again) communication professor and university administrator who also had a career in advertising and public relations. I now own a restaurant with my wife and son (I mostly stand at the front and say "hello folks") that keeps my occupied some. I live in Louisville KY and have spent musch time in Boston, New Orleans and South Florida.
This blog will deal with politics, music, their relationship and lots more. I will recommend books, music, web sites, technology, food and anything else that I care to do. As a college teacher, I was always thinking about getting things published. Now I don't really care. This endeavor is about the writing of and not the reading of. I like to think, though, that someone might stumble upon this, perhaps because of the neat name thanks to my wife, and maybe be a bit interested or maybe not.
I will write about some serious stuff like the democratization of media by allowing folks like me to speak to a potentially large audience and the staffing of the Obama presidency, and some more fluffy things like recipes for regional food (bugoo and gumbo.) and my music best ofs for the year. I might also speak to the overuse of parenthesis and the art of proofreading. Unlike the speeches and articles, news releases and ads I spent a career writing theses will be done in one take. How very different that is.
Now what do I do? The election is over and how do I budget the four hours a day I spent reading about it. I guess I will have to do music. Buy CDs and download much music. I still have 93 downloads left on my emusic account and only a couple of weeks to use them. Maybe this will replace the time suck of the election.
If anyone sees this, please write. My adventure begins...jimbeaux
My first entry. Wow. One of the blog hosting sites suggests starting with Hello World! But I don't use exclamation points, so I guess not. The about me will say that I am a sort of retired (does that mean tired again) communication professor and university administrator who also had a career in advertising and public relations. I now own a restaurant with my wife and son (I mostly stand at the front and say "hello folks") that keeps my occupied some. I live in Louisville KY and have spent musch time in Boston, New Orleans and South Florida.
This blog will deal with politics, music, their relationship and lots more. I will recommend books, music, web sites, technology, food and anything else that I care to do. As a college teacher, I was always thinking about getting things published. Now I don't really care. This endeavor is about the writing of and not the reading of. I like to think, though, that someone might stumble upon this, perhaps because of the neat name thanks to my wife, and maybe be a bit interested or maybe not.
I will write about some serious stuff like the democratization of media by allowing folks like me to speak to a potentially large audience and the staffing of the Obama presidency, and some more fluffy things like recipes for regional food (bugoo and gumbo.) and my music best ofs for the year. I might also speak to the overuse of parenthesis and the art of proofreading. Unlike the speeches and articles, news releases and ads I spent a career writing theses will be done in one take. How very different that is.
Now what do I do? The election is over and how do I budget the four hours a day I spent reading about it. I guess I will have to do music. Buy CDs and download much music. I still have 93 downloads left on my emusic account and only a couple of weeks to use them. Maybe this will replace the time suck of the election.
If anyone sees this, please write. My adventure begins...jimbeaux
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