Sophie's Caress
In his review of Sophie Milman's latest, Take Love Easy, Jeff Winbush writes, “A vocalist in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, Milman has one of those voices that has both range and power, but she knows how to caress a lyric and tap into the emotional depths of the song.”
Labels: entertainment
Syncopation Affirmation
The New York Post published a nice review of Sophie Milman's performance Monday at the Blue Note.
Labels: entertainment
Facebook
To Facebook or not to Facebook, in the end I was sucked in by the feeling of missing out on the happenings of, well, my friends, and made a page in spite of my wanting to resist the temptation of the latest cyberfad.
Labels: Internet
To the Nines
At some time today, when I happened to check, the S&P 500 index was 909.09, making me think that it would have been numerologically more fun if that had happened on September 9th, later this year. At the same time, it would be financially more fun if that did not happen on 9/9/09. Anyway, all of that shortly led me to wonder about the origin of the expression to the nines. “Short answer: nobody knows.”
Labels: language
Take Love Easy
Sophie Milman has a new studio album,
Take Love Easy, released today in Canada.
Labels: entertainment
2009 Pan-Mass Challenge
For the tenth straight year I'll be riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge which, through the Jimmy Fund, raises money to support research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For more information you might look at this year's fact sheet (PDF).
You can contribute online if you'd like to support my effort.
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Movable Type to Blogger
There's a
tool to convert Movable Type exported text to the Blogger XML import form, but the software is very finicky.
Revival
Nothing Is Perfect is undergoing a revival.
2008 PMC Dolbens

2008 Pan-Mass Challenge Dolbens: Martha, Don, Deane, Hank, and Drew.
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Declaration
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Labels: philosophy
I am a Strange Loop
Returning yet again to the big question, you know—life, the universe, and everything—here's one of our old favorites, Douglas Hofstadter, weighing in on the soul and what I like to call life after death. It's a little scary how nearly congruent his construct is to mine. Heck, forget nearly. They're identical. Of course, his makes much better reading.
Labels: philosophy
5th Anniversary
Today marks five years since the inception of Nothing Is Perfect.
Labels: Internet