Archive for September, 2006

Kickoff gig

I’ll be playing with Ned Evett at the Visual Arts Collective on September 28th, 2006. It is a sort of kickoff concert for our tour to England and Ireland that we leave for the next day. Start time is 7:30. Come and see it!

The point of social formalities

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide the lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand […]