Music and Cats

What do carbon-neutral and podcast have in common? Each was selected by the Oxford University Press as its Word of the Year; podcast in 2005 and carbon-neutral (a two-word phrase, really) last year.
Yesterday, the OUP announced the 2007 Word of the Year: Locavore.
From the OUPBlog press release:
“The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ […]

Now I’ve been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can’t we live in bliss
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
–Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam

As a teenager in the 1970’s, I […]

Image courtesy of Suspect Device.

August 28, 2007
Dear Mr. President:
Thank you for visiting New Orleans for the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the worst federal levee-failure disaster in United States history followed by the worst federal disaster response in United States history. We’re also grateful for the $116 billion federal allocation for the Gulf Coast. That $116 billion has served […]

When Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip came on tonight, I had just begun writing a post about holiday music. This is not the post I started out to write.
I love holiday music of all sorts: polyphonic chant, winter standards, carols medieval to modern, world music for Christmas, Solstice, Chanukah. Even the most tired, much-Muzaked […]