Most people, if they know any songs by the great Jazz musician Thelonious Monk, know or have heard the title of the slower song “‘Round Midnight”. While I admit that that song has its own greatness, I don’t think it exhibits the kind of quiet soul of some of his other slower works.

Thelonious Monk […]

I have been reading an excellent work by communication theorist and political economist Vincent Mosco. The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace examines the myths we have been spinning around the rise of the Internet: that it will change politics and social interaction, and generally bring us into a new enlightened age.

The first part […]

I have been applying out to places for a while now, but this morning I had my first telephone interview. I don’t want to talk about it until I hear something official, but I can be unspecific and say that I think I did a good job. I have never really been extensively […]

I had my first little Library Journal book review published last month, a review of Kurt Vonnegut’s final collection of essay and stories Armageddon in Retrospect. No one at the magazine indicated to me what self-archiving rights I had, so I don’t know if I can reproduce it, but the link to it is […]