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About Fenster

Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.

Wimmin Singin Wednesday

Fenster writes: Here at WUR (KUR for those of you on the west coast), we don’t play the hits.  Whether we play the songs you like to hear depends on whether you like the songs we like to hear.  De gustibus, baby. So … Continue reading

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Venti . . . . Ummmm?

Fenster writes: Ever notice how much easier it is to remember or learn things you are interested in learning compared with when you are not? Case in point.  After all these years and after all the Starbucks coffees I still … Continue reading

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Fenster writes: Pat Metheny Group, Phase Dance (1977)

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Dammit Scotty, Don’t Beam Me Up!

Fenster writes: Scientists have been able to move/teleport atoms in that magical way characteristic of advanced physics.  Don’t ask me if the atoms moved, or were destroyed and recreated, or were just in both places, or in different states, or … Continue reading

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Shucks

Fenster writes: For the second time in a week, access to UR over a public wifi network has been blocked.  Different wifi providers: one on a bus, one in a coffee shop. Both mentioned the reason, however.

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Fenster writes: A cover of Footprints, a Wayne Shorter tune, by John Goodwin and the Appetizers.   Recorded live in 1990. Goodwin, bass player, band leader and my cousin, sadly passed away a few months ago.  This embed is from … Continue reading

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Beware of Mr Baker

Fenster writes: Blowhard Esq. did a very nice job recommending recent documentaries about pop music.  Here’s another: Beware of Mr. Baker, available on Netflix Streaming. “he personally is what drums are all about” (Stewart Copeland) . . . . “the … Continue reading

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NPR and Unspoken Assumptions

Fenster writes: If you have a little over four minutes to spare, take a listen to the sound file below.  It is snipped from an NPR podcast entitled Pop Culture Happy Hour.  The full series is available for download for … Continue reading

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Fenster writes: En las Orillas Del Mundo, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Charlie Haden

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Highsmith Redux

Fenster writes: Paleo links to a Guardian article proclaiming Patricia Highsmith as the screen’s new It Girl. Reminds me of a couple of blog postings of mine from exactly 10 years ago saying much the same thing.  This was pre … Continue reading

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