Today The Kid turns 5, and we’re having a party. We have a number of activities planned for the kids that will be occurring at different stations in the space where we’re celebrating. One of the stations will be for music and dancing. When I asked him what music, he quickly replied: Matt Ward, Pete […]
Saturday, December 22, 2007
I was up late getting a few things done and hanging out on twitter when …
I was feeling sad that way you do when loss catches you by surprise. Then I figured out what I’d do.
The older poems are all in the archives, along with a few others.
Now I’m trying to decide if I […]
The Beatles were my first musical obsession. When I became a fan of the Beatles in middle school, I collected every recording, poured over every liner note, read biographies, studied the lyrics, listened to the solo projects . . .
It was the first time I’d gotten into music like this. I think it was around […]
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DVD Maniacs has posted a nice review and overview of the new DVD release of my cousin Alan’s fantastic film, Land of Look Behind. Here’s reviewer Ian Miller’s discussion of the film:
Alan Greenberg is an interesting character. It would seem that his life is made up of random encounters and friendships with some serious heavy […]
While his Bubbe was here visiting this weekend, my 4 year old took her on a tour through his favorite YouTube videos—Pete Seeger, M. Ward, the Beatles (”the rooftop concert, Daddy…”). Next, I’ll post the favorite from Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest (”the one where she sings!”), but first you’ve got to see this one […]
Saturday, December 30, 2006
When I was thirteen, my dad took me to the Film Forum, just outside the West Vilage in NYC. My cousin Alan’s first film was being shown there, a film called Land of Look Behind, a documentary about Jamaica just after Bob Marley’s death. At the time I did not know Bob Marley’s music and […]
Friday, November 10, 2006
Pete Seeger’s Vietnam era song is no less current today.
For a personal tribute to the veteran in my family, see Winter. 1969.
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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Rokhl Kafrissen recently published an awesome statement on contemporary Jewish American identity (via Mark Rubin). This is the sort of thing that I wish I’d written, because it comes so close to my own views. Here’s points 3 and 4, out of 6, central to the manifesto:
3. Jewish religion cannot be divorced from Jewish culture.
To […]
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Twenty-five years ago today (12/9), I was eleven years old, going on twelve. I swear I knew every Beatles song by heart, knew every published detail of the band’s history. And John was my favorite. He was the coolest one. His songs were the best ones. HIs solo work was the strongest. He had real […]
Pete Seeger continues to be a big favorite for my toddler. Standing in the chair in front of our stereo, he pulls the Pete Seeger CD of choice out of the stack, gets the disc out of the case, opens the CD player drawer, places the disc in, closes the drawer—and finds his favorite songs […]
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled,
she beheld her tender Child
All with scourges rent:
For the sins of His own nation,
saw Him hang in desolation,
Till His spirit forth He sent.
–Stabat Mater
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Sorry it’s taken me a little while to respond to your second comment. But maybe it’s a good thing that some time has passed and there is more information […]
Headline is from Bob Fertig at Democrats.com. He writes:
In order to trash Cindy, [FOX’s John] Gibson called on Ira Stoll, editor of the rightwing New York Sun and author of “Cindy Sheehan’s Crowd.” Stoll attacked Cindy for working with “extreme groups and individuals”:
Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out all have representatives […]
This is a little dated, but it’s good and Technorati says hardly anyone blogged it. For all my fellow red diaper babies:
Pete Seeger Is 86
by STUDS TERKEL
It is hard to think of Pete Seeger as an elderly gaffer, because the boy in him, the light, remains undimmed. It was sixty-five years ago I first ran […]
I first mentioned William Douthard in passing here. At the right is a flier from a civil rights rally I think my father organized, where William spoke (click on the image to enlarge).
William Douthard was a student demonstration leader in Birmingham, Alabama, which was where he and my father met. To many in the […]
Sorry it’s been so quiet over here. Had a bad cold last week and was also working on some writing for print publication (more on that soon).
Over Memorial Day weekend we visited my mother, and I spent some more time with my father’s papers. I brought a bunch of new papers back home, some […]
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