Archive for December, 2008
Jim Morrison’s grave 1976 (again)
By Tom Teicholz at 13 December, 2008, 5:28 pm
By popular demand — or at least one person — I’ve been asked to re-post this photo, which I posted a while ago, but seems not to have survived my blog’s transition from typepad to wordpress. So here it is:
Read More >>Digital archives that even include my old articles
By Tom Teicholz at 12 December, 2008, 3:04 pm
Every week it seems a new publication decides to put their digital archives online — which is good news for those of us scrounging around to find copies of our own old work.
This New Yorker, I discovered, has put their entire digital archive online, everything since 1925. If you are a subscriber to the magazine [...]
Why the republicans blocked the auto bail out
By Tom Teicholz at 12 December, 2008, 12:39 pm
My best guess is that the reason the Republicans blocked the auto bailout is DENIABILITY. In the first Bush adminstration the Republicans agreed to tax increases and got blamed for it. Now they want to show that they are taking a stand, to distance themselves from the current president and to re-establish their credibility as [...]
Read More >>Sign and Sight from Germany re Buchenwald and Katyn
By Tom Teicholz at 12 December, 2008, 12:32 pm
Sign and Sight, a website that does a roundup of European newspapers and magazines has two entries this week from the German press that I will cut and paste here in their entirety, one concerning Jorge Semprun and Buchenwald and the other concerning Katyn:
Die Tageszeitung 06.12.2008
It was in Buchenwald that he learnt the meaning of [...]
Before Facebook existed there was… Analog versions of Facebook
By Tom Teicholz at 11 December, 2008, 4:29 pm
Before Facebook existed there was…..
Tony Melchior,,, Tony (who I went to high school and college with and who is not on Facebook) recently visited us, and he knew everything that everyone I had ever known was doing, and had done recently. Really.
The Common Book at the Harvard Lampoon — I was taken inside the Lampoon [...]
“Doc” air times
By Tom Teicholz at 9 December, 2008, 11:55 am
From “Doc”’s publicist Mary Lugo:
PBS stations around the country actually air Independent Lens whenever they like, so “check yr local listings.”
Here are some sample times, and see link below for more info:
WNET / NYCWed12/10/20081:00 AM
KCET / LATues12/30/200810:00 PM
KERA / Dallas,TXTues01/20/200910:00 PM
KQED / SF, CAMon12/15/200811:00 PM
Conn. PTVTues12/09/200810:00 PM
WHYY / Philly, PATues12/16/200810:00 PM
WLVT / Philly, PATues12/09/200810:00 PM
WGBX [...]
Letterman guessed right about Leno
By Tom Teicholz at 9 December, 2008, 11:13 am
In a recent interview with David Letterman (Rolling Stone? The New York Times? I can’t seem to remember where), Letterman opined that he couldn’t quite imagine that NBC would be so foolish to let Leno go, as successful as Leno has been. And Letterman was right: in the end, they couldn’t let him go, moreover [...]
Read More >>A column thirty years in the making
By Tom Teicholz at 9 December, 2008, 8:05 am
This morning I published a column about Harold “Doc” Humes on the Huffington Post and on my site in connection with the airing of “Doc” by his daughter Immy Humes as part of PBS’ independent Lens series. It airs officially on PBS at 10PM but check local listings because the times are different in each [...]
Read More >>A plan to save Moca
By Tom Teicholz at 8 December, 2008, 11:30 am
Roberta Smith writing in the New York Times this morning put forward a plan to save MOCA which was reasonable and would work. To read her article click here.
Noting that the gap that MOCA needs to fill is $25 Million she called upon board members, trustees, art collectors, art patrons, artists and individual citizens [...]
Sunday LA TIMES Arts & Books
By Tom Teicholz at 7 December, 2008, 1:20 pm
Very few people have very few good things to say about the LA Times.
But since the LA times folded their Sunday Book review and made it part of a part 2 of the Sunday Calendar section called Arts & Books, it’s grown on me.
In a strange way, having the books front and center on large [...]