TheCapitalClinic

Never again: (a) Lefsetz on Manzanar (b) Official US National Park Service Website on Manzanar (c) Jeff’s letter in the Lefsetz mailbag: Bob, I've been enjoying reading your posts over the years, but never really had a reason to respond until now. I'm a fourth generation Japanese-American and I'm about as "Japanese" as a taco. I can't speak, read, or write Japanese. I've only been to Japan a few times and really haven't had a chance to connect...

This is a conversation for my readers to ponder and react now or later. I think it's time. JGBOCCELLA, I have just started to check out your Op-Ed and youtube series about a "Totally Unique Way to Talk about Race Relations" . Your undertaking to take on the defining issue of our country ignites the mind and inspires the soul. I will think on how best to join this dialogue and expand upon it. My intuition is that independent artists and venues such as fuzz [and similar...

Miss Bella asked the following:"So I was looking around the site and I realized something. It feels like it has become such a small little community. I mean look at the top 10 people and blogs. Look at who comments and writes those blogs. It's always the same people. I mean I love all of US and what we have to say and everything else, but there are more than just our little circle of about 15 people on Fuzz. How do you suggest we expand? Reach out and not be in this little bubble? Do...

Folks, the fuzz team finally accepted my note about the optimal sweet spots of web-time for posting on The Fix that I think is relevant for artists and music fans alike. I think the points raised in this article will give you an important edge in the greatest game ever that, like it or not, we are all playing. Check it out.. And post your comments there [rather than here]. [My apologies for this blanket Poke! to all my fuzz friends.]

With Clif's kind permission, I am reposting this dialogue that started at our Facebook pages/walls, then continued as a fuzz PM [private message]. The topics addressed are varied, but they all center around how to help indie artists and passionate music fans find better ways to secure the future of music - for themselves and the magic of the creative process. Please feel free to comment 'wiki-style" on the public spaces below and in time I will summarize this thread into a...

This is an update of a Review on Ben Miller, A Fuzz Treasure Trove, that I wrote last May:Ben Miller has uploaded a treasure trove of songs at Fuzz. He describes his body of work as rock, jazz, blues, alternabluesrock, and progressive. Hey, baby, what more can you want. These songs rock! More on Ben and this space later.It’s time for an update. I remember at about that time I was in correspondence with a real industry pro, Bill Bentley who had already identified Ben as an artist to...

I wrote previously about the coming effective convergence of all the music social networks into what will be the Mother-Of-All-Music-Social-Networks Notwithstanding my point regarding convergence, the existing powers-that-be in the Music Establishment still don't seem to “get it”. As reported in the NY Times today, MySpace and three of the four major labels [Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, and Warner Music Group – with EMI likely to follow] announced their long anticipated deal...

I have been meaning to swing back to give more serious listenin' time to Michele Vreeland and, like most of us, got lost in the overwhelming flow of music that is being created everywhere. However, the very first time I heard one of her early songs, "Wanted to say", it was enough to hook me and benchmark her work for further review. In doing my homework on Michele, I came across her bio on The Cover Zone that described her extant works in part as follows:"Wanted to...

I would like to expand on my blog [and related blog threads] on the notion that Social Capital Wants To Be Measured [check it out] to develop our thinking about how to find the SIMPLE parameters to frame Clif's notion of SocialBuxx™ [check this one out too] as a workable score-keeping unit [i.e. to make SocialBuxx™ an effective currency to measure how web-values are created, stored, and exchanged]. One of the objectives of this exercise that is going on simultaneously in many places...