Zapruder Point

“The point is that if you’re making big policy changes, the final form of the policy has to be good enough to do the job. You might think that half a loaf is always better than none — but it isn’t if the failure of half-measures ends up discrediting your whole policy approach.” –Paul Krugman, [...]

I finished a new song yesterday. It was especially satisfying because the missing pieces were all lyrics, pretty much. I was intimidated because I was extremely satisfied with the one verse I did have, one that came pretty effortlessly some months ago. What if I couldn’t match it in terms of quality? And wouldn’t concentrating [...]

Get On With It Meditation, reflection, study — these things will always have a place in my life, and a fairly important one. But as I get older, I tend to learn a greater share of lessons precisely when I’m not purposefully trying to puzzle them out. When I was younger, I was much more [...]

Something For Nothing Well, I’ll worry about whether these new songs will form an “album” later. In the meantime, as I’m on something of a roll, I’ll just post things as I finish mixing them. This one’s got a “triple-stack” guitar solo. Listen to find out what that means. “something for nothing” weekend’s threatening small [...]

This past weekend was very productive, recording-wise. The best part is that I hadn’t planned on recording, really–it just happened. A couple weeks ago, when I recorded “When You Were Young,” while the capo was still on that first fret, I came up with a really simple progression and a nice melody. Next thing you [...]