I'm writing this from the Middle of Nowhere (tm), on an elderly borrowed laptop equipped with a cellular-broadband card that likes to go belly-up at crucial moments and glacially-slow the rest of the time.  So please excuse any latent testiness.  (Any more than usual, that is.)

Anyway:  Sometimes the Times gets it really, really right.  Their blogs are great, from City Room's focus on New York stories to Errol Morris on truth and images and what they tell us, to Dick Cavett on...well, whatever Dick Cavett wants to write about, because I'll sit at his feet and hoover up every mot, bon or not.

But Measure for Measure, the NYT's new-ish blog about the craft and art of songwriting, is fantastic -- check out people like Roseanne Cash (!) on what it's like to write with Kris Kristofferson and Elvis Costello, Andrew Bird (!!) on recording at the Wilco loft, and Suzanne Vega (!!!) on what it's like to be a "two-hit wonder" and, not-so-incidentally, breaking down the genesis of "Luka".

And damn, they've gone and made it better; the newest contributor is none other than Peter Holsapple, who talks us through a brand-new song.

(Oh, and the flipside to that?  Sometimes the Times, like all of us, trips over its merry boots of clay.  Is Florence Fabricant trimming her nails and using them to combine root beer with semifreddo? 

Somehow I doubt it.  And this may be a point for the other blog, but a Cuba Libre is Coke (not just "cola"), rum, ice, and lime.  Vital ingredient, there, and it's what separates a Cuba Libre from a garden-variety rum 'n' Coke.)

Comments

[tim]

Wow, thanks for the pointer to Measurex2!