Seven Red

I Use to Doubt It, But Now I Believe It

topspun — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:46:37 +0000

So the book goes like this: if you’re into anything Indie music-wise, you must go out and buy the Arcade Fire’s new album The Suburbs. It’s like a requirement, the analogy being if you’re into contemporary fiction, you have to go out and buy Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom (the review in the New York Times this [...]

Rhetorical Miscalculation of the Week

topspun — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:18:36 +0000

Judiciary Committee Republicans, a note. I’m sure it must be very sad to sit in the minority on such an important committee, with nominees coming at you left and right, and nothing to do but grumble and delay. I get it. I think we all sit on non-functional committees at some point, or occupy roles [...]

Everybody Out of It

topspun — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:43:43 +0000

You just knew that The Roots new album would be excellent, and it is. As a bonus, the first single remixes a song from the Monsters of Folk album, and features Jim James in the video. Plus, reworking Nas throughout. Nice. Enjoy.

That Other Stuff

topspun — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:45:40 +0000

I know a sports post should be on anything but mid-season baseball. The Blackhawks here just won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 49 years, and the city is berserk about it. The World Cup is on the teevee upstairs, and will be for the next month. So, yeah, mid-season baseball seems like [...]

With My Orange Umbrella

topspun — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:08:32 +0000

Dang. Missed a whole month. What will the archive think? Looked at the page a few times over the last month or so. No energy for it. So I’m forcing myself to rev up the engine again with something easy here, as I’ll do from time to time. As is well known in Seven Red [...]

Shameless Rhetoric of the Week

topspun — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:10:29 +0000

On NPR’s Marketplace this week, “business writer” John Carney had about the most ridiculous rhetorical defense of Goldman Sachs that I’ve heard yet. It went something like this: the Securities and Exchange Commission civil suit against Goldman is “overstepping its bounds” because the SEC should be protecting the “little guy” rather than “German and and [...]

Facepalm

topspun — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:09:59 +0000

Social Media and the Art of Catching Up

topspun — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:23:54 +0000

One of the more compelling arguments for the value of social media is Clive Thompson’s Wired piece, published – stunningly – almost three years ago, titled “How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense.” I remember reading this article when it first came out, and just intuitively agreeing with his thesis. Constant updates (on Facebook, Twitter, [...]

Running from the Cold Up In New England

topspun — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:55:07 +0000

Forgot how much I liked this until my brother posted it the other day.Grew up with some dogmatic hate of country, but Old Time and alt-country is alright now.

DOM meets MOD

topspun — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:43:02 +0000

I like this, from our friends at Loungerati: Since reading about the 500 year anniversary of DOM Benedictine contest last year, I have been tinkering with my own recipe that honors the liqueur but also tips the trilby to the iconic Italian macchina, the Fiat Cinquecento (“500″ in Italian). In other words, DOM meets MOD, [...]