Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The Man In Black


Last night, Johnny Cash appeared to me in a dream and told me that the person who gives the most memorable performance of a song has a natural right of ownership in that song. I asked him how that would affect the royalty rights of the songwriter. He said it wouldn’t: the natural right was a moral not an economic right. I said, “OK, but doesn’t that also imply that the natural right of the performer may change depending on the memorability of subsequent performances—that public taste plays an outsized role in the determination of that right?” He agreed with me that it would and then I woke up.

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Wounded Knee

 

Let the mighty fall and their weapons of war perish. Let the rest of the world witness what the United States has become: a prematurely senescent empire, sponsor of genocide, racist, white Christian supremacist, a byword for vulgarity and violence.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024