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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Concerto in Improvidoodle

Monday, April 14, 2008

Review: An Evening with Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea and Jack DeJohnette, Sunday 13 April 2008, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville
As admirable as jazz critics like Gary Giddins and Nat Hentoff are, even they couldn’t describe last night’s evening of “free jazz” adequately. It’d be like explaining a joke, ruins it. I won’t try, but surely a [...]

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Judge Date by Her Cover

Monday, April 7, 2008

Here are three articles claiming with scant evidence that women are fiction and men non-fiction. The earliest comes from the March 24, 2008, edition of The New Yorker, which started out as possibly a look at where the two literatures overlap in either memoir or false memoir. But near the end it dives into [...]

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Hydrangea, Sweet Bird of Youth

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

This tale is in honor of Robert Benchley, on account of the day. For those of you who don’t know much about him, Benchley’s nickname in his Hollywood days was Dick Cheney.
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock
DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — Saturday I rushed into the yard for some early spring gardening. My neighbor had been out two [...]

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