Monthly Archives: October 2008

Quotable

From Mohammed, at Iraq the Model, on the Sta­tus of Forces agree­ment: I don’t dare sug­gest that Obama wanted to obstruct the treaty because it threat­ens Iran and other despots in the Mid­dle East; I’m sure his pur­pose is dif­fer­ent. The thing is that his pur­pose is also dif­fer­ent from that of the U.S. or …

October 31, 2008 – 2:22 pm | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

I’m thrilled Philly won the World Series. Can I ask for a safer, cleaner, more prosperous city now?

Home­less prob­lem, past and present Crime Business-friendly? haha­ha­ha­haha When run­ning for Mayor some time ago, Michael Nut­ter actu­ally took the time to slam Bush/Cheney in his ads, which made no sense — Philadelphia’s local prob­lems are its own doing and respon­si­bil­ity. I went look­ing for progress reports on how the city is doing, haven’t found …

October 29, 2008 – 11:27 pm | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (1)

Noted Frustration

Those Bach Inven­tions and Sin­fo­nias present a new chal­lenge for me, the occa­sional pianist. I don’t care about the mis­takes, but I do care that each voice is rich and vibrant and makes melodic sense. More­over, I want a mature sound, a sound com­ing from a 28 year old at least. Trou­ble is that it is …

October 28, 2008 – 5:24 pm | By ashok | Posted in music, personal | Tagged | Comments (0)

Thinking Small

The yellow-green leaves out­side my win­dow catch sun­light, as do the orange and brown ones. But the yel­low def­i­nitely catches my eye the most: it seems an earthy coun­ter­part to the sun itself. These autumn days are our riches. Even Star­bucks and Wawa and var­i­ous beer com­pa­nies offer a full line of fall prod­ucts to …

October 26, 2008 – 3:03 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged | Comments (1)

No kidding.

I don’t feel like read­ing Xenophon and writ­ing a line-by-line com­men­tary right now. What I want to do is write the most ele­gant flashy essay packed with a new read­ing of Amer­i­can his­tory and its themes that will make us all per­fectly ratio­nal vot­ers eager to read Plato at the drop of a hat. I want …

October 24, 2008 – 7:03 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged , , | Comments (0)