MUD HOOK
Slang for anchor.
– The Pirate Dictionary, by Terry Breverton
Monthly Archives: April 2016
The season 6 opener for Game of Thrones reminded us all how critical information is to a story, what’s included and what’s excluded, where a narrative starts and stops, how reliable the information is…
I think a lot about cover tunes, particularly when the musical genre is transposed. Prince was a master of genre-bending, and when he died I immediately started thinking about cool covers I would love to hear by well-known artists. Here is what I came up with, titled in tribute of Prince’s album as TAFKAP.
Note: The sound I envision for the final track is the reggae sound Willie Nelson cultivated on his remarkable Countryman album.
Recently, I’ve been binge-watching Louie. I particularly liked the episode with Dane Cook, because the two of them are comics whom I genuinely admire and they’d been involved in a controversy in which other comics accused Cook of stealing C K’s jokes. I really respect how Louis C K handled the whole thing, because I think the hate Cook has gotten from other comics is completely unwarranted and transparent.
This week’s Music Monday is a noir tale of murder and sexuality called Come to Bed, drawing on blues, reggae, and hip-hop.
rubstone (n.) A whetstone. In 1687 Samuel Sewall ordered,
“Send me for my own proper accountt … six doz of rubstones.”
–Colonial American English by Richard M. Lederer, Jr.
