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Crepuscule with Nellie by Thelonious Monk

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 […]

The Myth of the Digital Sublime

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 […]

First Phone Interview Today

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 […]

Book Reviews and Librarianship

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 […]