Thanks for the good wishes in the last post! Before I get into my crazy man blogosphere rantings (okay, that might be a little bit of an overstatement), I suppose it would be appropriate to establish the facts of the situation. First of all, they call thyroid cancer “the good cancer” because almost nobody dies …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Cancer Blog!
Once again, I’m back. I have what has turned out to be an unusual case of thyroid cancer and I think I’m going to blog about it. Summer’s hiatus was a plain, vanilla blog hiatus. My disappearance in October was directly tied to the discovery of the illness, the extra “part time job” that ensued …
More Hiatus?
Few things are lamer than a blog announcing its comeback and then not coming back, but I’m afraid that’s what has to happen here. I will continue to post at best intermittently for the rest of 2009–possibly longer–not for lack of content or inspiration, but for lack of time.
Homecoming (never mind the typo)
Comments back on
I got a couple emails saying “I was going to comment but had to log in” and sure enough, some setting got tweaked when the site went down for a couple days. Should be good again.
New Text
“The Cat Telephone,” The Velvet Light Trap #64 (Fall 2009): 83-84. Part of a very interesting dossier on failure with lots of short entries; also a tiny snippet from Chapter 6 of the mp3 book. It is also now on the “text” page of sterneworks. “The Preservation Paradox.” in Sound Souvenirs, eds. Karin Bijsterveld and …
On Rediscovering Music-Making
First, open this page and play the song. Then switch back to this page. Last spring my 2004 G5 “desktop” (more like a “floortop” given its heft and profile) finally gave up the ghost. At the time I just switched to a laptop and kept writing. But its death had some beneficial effects on my …