August 2011
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Best of the Best: NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts →
Seems like I always miss the best Tiny Desk Concerts in person. Still kicking myself about Buke and Gass, which made the most memorable list. And it figures I would be on vacation for Low and Fountains of Wayne, two of my all-time favorites.
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Power In America: An Investment Manager's View On... →
Wall Street created the investment products that produced gross economic imbalances and the 2008 credit crisis. It wasn’t the hard-working 99.5%. Average people could only destroy themselves financially, not the economic system. There’s plenty of blame to go around, but the collapse was primarily due to the failure of complex mortgage derivatives, CDS credit swaps, cheap Fed money,...
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Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers...
– J.G Ballard from the archives of the Paris Review.