"Just when I think
"Takes more than one fool!
I come fallin'
Back in love with you..."
Updated: MONDAY, 29 APRIL, 2002
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Everybody seems to be talking about the same thing.
You can feel it in the air... tonight, right now. The world is changing, really changing. For good? For ill? It's a crap shoot, Baby.
And that might just be why it's a good idea to hang with an alternative magazine that just wants to be your tall drink of fresh water. You've just clicked on Evian for your head.
IN THIS ISSUE: We look at the surprising results of the French election in G21 EUROPE; we stop in Dublin for more lore in IRISH EYES; POWERSSOUND rounds out your music picks this week, and --- much more!.
SUSSEX, UK - Most plane crashes occur because more than one thing goes wrong; it’s usually five or six. The most common factor amongst the many which contribute to such crashes is that pilots don’t believe their own instruments. In the case of Lionel Jospin a multitude of things went wrong and throughout the campaign he failed to believe his instruments. In spite of all the polling evidence, media commentary and precedent he apparently did not see what was coming. To that extent the progress of Jean-Marie Le Pen to the second round of the French Presidential Election is not a harbinger of the rise of Fascism in France.
It is a well known maxim in sales that it is much more difficult to find new customers than to keep the ones you’ve got. Jospin forgot that rule...MORE
NEW ORLEANS - 28 APRIL, 2002 - I'm not sure why I keep searching for well-adjusted people in a dysfunctional city like New Orleans. I guess it's my indefatigueable belief in miracles. No miracles to report in this week's Life of Rod news, though. So I figure I'll look around at the news of the world first and then get back to the tragedy you love to read.
There are twin headlines, both of them awful, in the minds of most of the Europe Watchers I know this week: Le Pen's "earthquake" victory and shot at the top job in France and the high school massacre in Germany. Both are the type of events you'd expect to read about in the news of 1932, not 2002... MORE
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MARIETTA, OH, USA - Regular readers of this weekly missive may have noticed that praise has taken a huge lead over pummeling in recent months. It’s not that your devoted columnist has decided to cut back on the nasty notices. Rather it’s that the quality of CD’s arriving on my front porch has shown marked improvement.
Proof of that statement can be found in the terrific new album from Jessica Williams called “This Side Up” (Maxjazz Records). A veteran performer, Ms. Williams has performed her piano magic with such name talent as Stan Getz, Eddie Harris, Philly Joe Jones, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Airto and Flora Purim, Woody Shaw and Tony Williams. She’s definitely been there, done that. It’s high time that she steps into the spotlight, for her talents cry out for notice. Maxjazz deserves a tip of the fedora for giving her the opportunity to show her stuff. She’s no overnight success, but this album should receive wide airing, because she possesses all the goodies...MORE
DUBLIN, IRELAND - "There's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends" (Hilaire Belloc)
You are wondering whether to take a few sick days or apply for holidays. While the rest of your family are getting their anti World-Cup-Fever shots perhaps you could ask yourself, is sport all that necessary?
Great thinkers, writers and philosophers, down through the centuries didn't think it was.
Patrick Kavanagh reminded us: " I have noted that in Ulysses, that compendium of common-place emotions and goings on, only the punter speculating on the result of the Ascot Gold Cup comes into the theme. So sport can't have been very vital, for Joyce had a mind like a sieve". Kavanagh proved his sincerity in this matter when he was playing in goal for Ennisjkeen Grattens. He deserted his post(s) to go for lemonade and the Grattens lost the game. He would, no doubt, have been aware of Lao Tzu's warning; "The way of the sage is to act but not compete"... MORE
AUSTIN, REPUBLIC OF TEJAS - After gettin' the latest dirt on one of our "Betters," there's nothin' we like better than a chance to have a vicarious thrill, is there, Fellow Sanitation Engineers? That's why that danged TV show "Bachelor" is doing so well and why even you're artsy-fartsy, left-leaning 'til they 'bout to fall down, Birkenstock-wearin', granola-eatin', whale-savin', trash-sortin' lita- and diga- ratis even have to admit that they have seen at least one episode of
"Blind Date"
"Temptation Island"
"DisMissed" or
"Change of Heart"
It's blood simple: we are a nation of danged voyuers... MORE
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