Not Depicted: Herb Alpert

St. Louis’ must-see concerts in August include Diana Ross, Rod Stewart and Wilco He’s playing the Touhill Center for Performing Arts in August. I’ll be there if he is. I saw him when he was in Springfield…. eight years ago? Already? We’d hoped to catch him somewhere else in the intervening years, but the closest […]

Those Are Rookie Numbers

Spotify’s 2025 summary reveals something…. Mostly untrue about me. 84 years old? More like 84 decibels minimum, you mean. And Tine Thing Helseth? I bought one of her CDs a number of years ago, but she’s not my favorite trumpeter by any means–and classical is not my favorite genre. What Spotify’s algorithm does not know […]

I Wouldn’t Know

Holly has a problem with Amazon’s new LLM: Just in time for their Black Friday deals, Amazon has rolled out the most annoying, aggressively anti-customer thing I’ve ever seen. If you aren’t seeing it today, you will soon. Every search results in Rufus, their AI, opening a chat window with you that’s part of the […]

The Record Library

As I have finished the last bits of the record shelving I started to build on Labor Day Weekend, I thought I’d show you what the Nogglestead record library looks like after a decade’s worth of book sales and visits to the antique malls ostensibly for “Christmas shopping” but in the “one for you, one […]

Recommended For Me

When doing my Discogs research for my Good Book Hunting post this weekend, when I lit upon the entry for Stereo and All That Jazz, it presented me with a carousel at the bottom with recommendations: Pretty good recommendations. Of them, I already have: Fun and Games by Chuck Mangione Breezin’ by George Benson What’s […]

Potentially Creepy, But Likely Random

Facebook hit me with this suggested post the other day: I recognized the album, as I bought it in 2021, and since it’s on the Internet, I assume the AIlgorithms know it. But Facebook feeds me a diet of hockey players, 80s and 90s nostalgia, and jazz musicians, the last probably because I follow KCSM […]

They See Me Coming

Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks to perform at Arrowhead Stadium Things I would have thought it impossible to say twenty years ago: It’s been over twenty years since I saw Billy Joel in concert. Which is true: It was his 2000 Years tour. Back when I was a technical writer and worked at DRA. He played […]