ghost of miles

Yes, they keep sending me email invitations to sign up for the book club. If I didn’t own a small house full of filled-in bookshelves and book-piles, I’d be strongly tempted to join. This is what I bought from their 40% off and free shipping sale: 1x Fat City - Paperback 1x Stalingrad - Paperback 1x Berlin Alexanderplatz - Paperback 1x Life and Fate - Paperback 1x The Gallery - Paperback 1x Everything Flows - Paperback 1x Nothing but the Night - Paperback 1x The Rim of Morning - Paperback 1x The Stalin Front - Paperback 1x The Road - Paperback 1x Slow Days, Fast Company - Paperback 1x Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition - Hardcover 1x Black Sun - Paperback 1x Part of Our Time - Paperback 1x Conquered City - Paperback 1x Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn - Paperback 1x In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - Paperback Should keep me busy for awhile! ☺️ I already have a dozen or so other volunes from the series.

Inspired by my recent revisitation of the Jimmie Lunceford Mosaic:

Took advantage of a New York Review of Books sale and ordered 17 volumes from their NYRB Classics series, including several titles by Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, in whom I’ve developed a strong interest. Reading the introduction tonight to a new translation of his novel Stalingrad, which is a sort of prequel to his better-known Life And Fate (also among the NYRB books I received today).

For arcane behind-the-scene reasons I won't go into, my radio station WFIU has been forced over the past year to convert all of its web content from the WordPress format that we used for many years to Cascade, a system used by the university that is less user and creator-friendly than WordPress. Our integrated media staff has been working to make the transition as easy as possible, but certain functions may not appear as readily. One such instance is looking for shows in the archives. To access the older, month-by-month and year-by-year version, you can still go to this page: Night Lights archives It's currently available through a small "older stories" link at the bottom of the archives page on the new site. There's also no longer an individual search bar for Night Lights itself (well, there appears to be through the link above, but if you search for anything within it, it takes you to the new home-page), so you have to use the general WFIU search box in the upper righthand corner of the Night Lights home page. You can also generally google "Night Lights" and the artist or approximate title/subject of a show and turn it up that way. I'm hoping we can soon get a new Night Lights-specific search tool to be present and working again. I'll be working with the integrated-media team in the next few weeks to try to get the new Cascades version of the website up to some level of convenience resembling the WordPress-generated site. For the time being, only posts from the last several months are going to be immediately visible when you visit the home page.

USPS in Bloomington, Indiana is great. I hope to God it never gets privatized, because privatization in any sector of business almost inevitably is a disaster for customers, employees, and the institution that was privatized. It does tend to be great for a few wealthy corporate types, however.

This very thread is what hipped me to the set in the first place!

Oh man, wish I were in NYC then--I'd definitely go see him at either venue.

Cool! Not sure how much of this material I have... maybe just one CD. I do have the complete Galaxy box and didn't realize that there was any overlap there with Artist House material.

Frank Strozier fans would really dig this one:

I’m not sure either, though if CC gets in, surely Andy Pettitte deserves to get in as well—their lifetime stats will be roughly equal (Pettite has 256 wins to CC’s current total of 251 and a 3.86 ERA compared to CC’s 3.71). And Pettitte has a fantastic post-season record too. But my sense is that starting pitchers have a higher hurdle to clear than everyday players when it comes to getting into the Hall.

Oh man, I completely forgot about that weird connection! Didn’t realize he was in it till I saw the movie again at the IU Cinema a couple of years ago.

Very classy move on Red Sox manager Alex Cora’s part at the All Star game, sending CC out to the mound before the final out in Cleveland: Memorable night for CC

Embarrassed to admit that I’ve never read it in its entirety—an oversight I definitely need to rectify.

Nice plug from Michael Cuscuna for Mark’s interview with Ethan Iverson up on the Mosaic Gazette now.

My dad is a big fan of Grand Prix as well. I've never actually seen it, but he would always watch it whenever it turned up on our local TV stations in the 1970s.

Many thanks--ordered the Circle CD from Amazon, which had it on sale as a $2.98 add-on item.

Bumping because I’ve been revisiting the Lunceford Mosaic set. God, what a gorgeous-sounding band! How much more material is there from the Columbia era, beyond the one-disc compilation that Sony Legacy put out a few years ago?

Hadn't listened to this since I was a kid until a week ago or so--it's very well-sequenced, actually. Weirdly enough now seems like a "lost" early-1966 Beatles album to me, what with the UK discography having been the mainstream set of referents for the past 30 years or so:

Nearly halfway through season 2 of The Man In The High Castle. Very compelling, expansive adaptation of Dick’s novel, and visually stunning—they do a great job of creating an alternative 1962. Two of the main characters—Frank and Juliana—can be annoying at times, but in general I’m really hooked on the show. I gather the final season will be dropping sometime this autumn.

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