Tag: Naomi Klein

• 100 Wins

  Tonight my hometown team, the Boston Red Sox, reached 100 wins for the first time since 1946 – with 16 left to play.  It brought to mind one of my favorite books about Boston, which is Howard Bryant’s Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston.  One of the most interesting things in…

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  September 13, 2018

  Sports

  Alex Cora, Baseball, Bonafide Rojas, Boston Red Sox, Curse of the Bambino, Dan Duquette, Dan Shaughnessy, David Price, Empire’s Workshop, Greg Grandin, Howard Bryant, Manny Ramirez, Mookie Betts, Naomi Klein, Notes On The Return To The Island, Pedro Martinez, Puerto Rico, Race, Shut Out, Sports, The Yawkey Family, War Against All Puerto Ricans

• The Residents and the Arctic

  I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio.  A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity.  I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say…

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  October 27, 2014

  Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  american empire, Arctic Circle, Book Reviews, Coca-Cola, Cora Dubois, Dust to Digital, Ecuador, Edward Said, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Eric Lott, Eskimo, Folkways, Harvard University, History, Immanuel Kant, Imperial Eyes, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Inuit, Jadaliyaa, Jay-Z, LA, Left media, Lowland Tribes of Ecuador, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Music, Naomi Klein, Native Instruments, Omar Souleyman, Palestinian Walks, Paul Gilroy, Peabody Museum, Race, Record Reviews, Residents, Sarah Palin, Siam Mapped, Sublime Frequencies, Timbalaand, Upcoming Projects

• Top 40 Over 40.1: She walked in through the out door

  Emmylou Harris : Coat Of Many Colours (1977) I’ve just finished listening to Wrecking Ball by Emmylou Harris. It’s a phenomenal record. Why have I never heard anyone talk about it? Below the above picture you’ll find a link to an early clip of her covering another underrated songwriter, Dolly Parton. Could it be that…

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  March 7, 2012

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Graham Parsons, Naomi Klein, Wrecking Ball