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Mysterious Jazz

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I’m working from home today and someone has been playing the most beautiful jazz music for the past hour. I have no idea where it’s coming from. It’s nothing but saxophones, and it’s modern but has hints of jaunty 1940s supper club music but with some atonal moments. It’s like 1940s jazz music taken apart and rearranged. I feel like I’m listening to the ghosts of doomed lovers in 1940s Los Angeles.

I’ve walked up and down the halls of my building but it seems to be coming from the building behind us. I want to find out what it is. Shazam is of no use. This is killing me.

Palin Resigns

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Sarah Palin is resigning as Alaska governor. Here’s her resignation speech, apparently without a prepared text. WTF — is any of this even English? (Update: this video is apparently just the second half of her speech.)

What hidden skeletons are prompting this? She’s been in the news a lot in the last few days — from this in-depth Vanity Fair piece to the cheesecake photos of her in Runner’s World magazine.

May this woman never get anywhere near the Oval Office. By choosing this joke of a politician as his running mate, John McCain demonstrated that he didn’t deserve to be anywhere near it, either.