Lebensraum

A few years ago, jazz producer and entrepreneur Joel Dorn (I think) ended up with the tapes of a radio broadcast concert by Rahsaan Roland Kirk from Germany in the 1970s. To the disgust of his record company (and it was HIS record company,BTW) he insisted on naming the resulting (outstanding) album “Brotherman in the Fatherland”. Even though Dorn recounts the deal at length in the liner notes, it remains unclear why he stuck to his guns on this. I’m gonna guess that it was because: a) Kirk would have appreciated the irony; b) it pissed his record company off; and c) he could. 


For vaguely similar reasons, I’m titling this one with the vaguely similar Lebensraum. Based on none-too-productive casual research, I’m beginning to think that the “German” side of my father’s family may have been Alsatian Jews. And that at least some of the Germans in my mother’s ancestry may have been Jewish as well. As many of you know, I pretty much live for irony. Not necessarily TASTEFUL irony, of course… . 


Anyway, here’s the deal. For the foreseeable future (which, given present state of available cancer therapies is NOT going to be pretty), I’m going to shift http://endoftheworldpartdeux.blogspot.com/, originally intended for commentary on music and mass media, to the diary of my illness. But, having recently discovered how smegging easy it is to record shit on Mac laptops, I still need a place to park music and music reviews. So I’ll just make http://theresaturtleinmysoup.blogspot.com/ into a food-plus mode, where we’ll pick up entertainment along with dining. That will leave http://sustainablebiospheredotnet.blogspot.com/ for ecosystems analysis and sustainability science, and http://docviper.livejournal.com/ for family, photography, and general fun. Hopefully this meets with your approval. With a little luck—like I’m still here to be writing this shit next year at this time—maybe we’ll rearrange priorities again. I’d sure as hell be up for that!


“Brotherman” is an outstanding album, BTW. Highly recommended—no household should be without!