Headaches have themselves by Jerry Fodor Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: DOES PHYSICALISM ENTAIL PANPSYCHISM? by Galen Strawson and et al · Imprint Academic, 285 pp, £17.95 Are we talking about non-combatants? … [Read more...]

It only takes 30 seconds for Weaver to equate herself with William Shatner (Star Trek) and Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) in Directv's new HD ads...the kind of ad they USED to make for the Japanese market. What kind of cash does Sigourney need to justify this low-rent move? Remember Robert Ulrich selling penile implants? … [Read more...]

Brian Lehrer Show Tuesday, August 14 … [Read more...]

SENTENCE OF THE MONTH from Peter Carlin's Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson (Rodale) p. 110: "It was just like the old days with his Wollensak recorder, except much, much weirder..." … [Read more...]

Geoff Dyer, author of THE ONGOING MOMENT, in the current Threepenny Review on the ECM label: ...Recent ECM releases are of a very high standard, but in many ways Khmer (the follow-up, Solid Ether, kept dissolving into a clatter of drum'n'bass) is a high point in the ECM project precisely because it seems so conspicuously at odds--sampling! remixes!--with the ethos of the company. (Having the courage of one's convictions is, as Nietzsche pointed out, a pretty modest virtue; "having the courage for an attack on one's convictions" is another … [Read more...]