Down a Well Posted by John Manchester on February 28, 2012 at 4:00pm View Blog FEBRUARY 28, 2012 9:29AM RATE: 15 Flag Why have I been absent from OS since last summer? I’ve been busy working, of course, but the real reason I’ve been gone is that I fell down a well. Not with a dramatic splash, but…
Lunch with Linda – Love on Haight Street
Lunch with Linda – Love on Haight Street Posted by John Manchester on February 24, 2011 at 3:30pm View Blog FEBRUARY 24, 2011 2:07PM RATE: 37 Flag The Grateful Dead playing for free on Haight Street. As promised, Mrs. Muse and I shared lunch with Linda Seccaspina at Magnolia Pub on Haight Street. The food was…
Stephen King and My Dad (Part 2)
In researching his alternate history of JFK’s assassination, 11/22/63, Stephen King did his homework – reading “a stack of books and articles on the subject almost as tall as I am.” In researching his non-fiction work on the same subject, Death of a President, my father conducted over 1000 interviews, many made possible by Jackie…
Stephen King and my dad (Part 1)
I was reading Stephen King’s latest – 11/2/63, an alternate history of JFK’s assassination – when I ran into my father. I was using the Kindle app on my iPad, so I can’t say which page it was on, only that it was location 1071, 8% through the book. My father would have been horrified…
Music For Node.Hack
At a speaker’s lunch at the Casual Connect convention I sat down next to a fellow who shook my hand, “Charles Cox, Microsoft.” He saw my company name tag, “You guys do music? Great, I need some.” A moment later he had his phone out and was showing me his game. I thought – Things…
Steve Jobs – Acid Visionary
Until he died this week, I never paid much attention to Steve Jobs. I was vaguely aware of the dramatic ups and down in his career, and that he was some intense guy with a vision. I was too busy working on and playing with the products he created to notice to the man behind…
FROM D.I.Y. TO A TEAM OF EXPERTS
DIY is all the rage in music production these days. Which explains the success of everything from Garage Band to phenomena like Pamplamouse. And who doesn’t want to have their own recording studio/digital workstation to play with? Especially if it costs next to nothing, or comes free with your Mac. We’ve all seen the downsides…
How Manchester Music Got to Casual Connect
By John Manchester Back when my sons were small I was composing fulltime. I came in from the studio one day to find them in front of our TV, clacking away at some unfamiliar gizmos hooked to a black box, which in turn ran into the TV. Odd animated characters jumped around on the screen…
A Brief History of Dentisty
A Brief History of Dentistry Posted by John Manchester on July 11, 2011 at 3:30pm View Blog JULY 11, 2011 8:33AM RATE: 14 Flag Disclosure: I just finished that indispensable writer’s guide, Killer Headlines That Will Grab Readers’ Eyeballs (and Squeeze Until The Juice Rolls Down Their Faces) by Ellis Dee Trypp. So while “A Brief History” is mine…
Authenticity and the 60s
(NOTE: This post is a follow up to my article in salon.com:http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/06/18/father_after_death_open2011) “Teach your children well. Their father’s hell did slowly go by. And feed them on their dreams….” –Graham Nash Frank Sinatra is haunting Mrs. Muse and me. Not our house. We don’t wake to the sound of a ghostly rat pack stumbling around…
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