Not too long ago I heard an old episode of “This American Life” in which the subject of one of the stories was an Afghan man who had been in love with a girl whom he couldn’t marry because she had no dowry.
Wait – the subject wasn’t really the Afghan man, but the precious little feelings of the sheltered, over-educated, white, middle class media professional “producing” the story. As Ira explains in every episode, “Each week of course we choose a theme and bring you different kinds of stories on that theme, subsequently ditching the story in favor of our emotional reactions and ...
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<FONT SIZE="-1">05/29/2010 </FONT><BR>
<B><A href="http://photochemical.blogspot.com/2010/05/roy-hargrove-rh-factor-joint.html">Roy Hargrove & RH Factor - The Joint</A></B><BR>
Just got home from two gigs in a row - seven solid hours of relatively high energy playing. You){kind=small}