Uncontrolled, disproportionate, and imprecise  

1. Thanks to Keith Keber, who writes with this updated PDF link to the Groseclose/Milyo paper (from this old post, which has since been corrected) and comments that he "read the paper (never read any of the professional responses, though) and found its methodology questionable and its conclusion foregone."

2. I'm a little slow on the draw with this, Caleb McDaniel's compelling extended argument for a ban on nuclear weapons is great reading, as are the subsequent comments and Caleb's gentlemanly responses.

3. Caleb is also here bemoaning (but also making -- more on that in a sec) the comparisons between Brad Mehldau and Bill Evans, and he's not the only one: Mehldau used the liner notes of an otherwise excellent album to make a preposterously hyper-literate (and I mean that in the worst possible way) declaration that he is not Bill Evans. I've always found the comparisons kind of boring, but Caleb's point of comparison in particular (because he does go on to make the comparison himself) strikes me as odd -- sure, the two are similar because they both reinvent pop tunes in a jazz idiom, but hasn't that been a mainstay of the whole jazz MO right from the beginning? Sure, Brad Mehldau seems a lot like Charlie Parker, because he's following in his footsteps by playing jazz!

4. And I can't help but point out (with pride) that my latest take on the Rockwell Gardens demolition made the front of Gapers Block today (which, in case you haven't noticed, has a very shiny new design). The rest of the pictures are here.