Never
mind about my composer’s studio (which is coming along but still in the works).
It’s time to resurrect the blog itself.
After writing
1700+ product reviews over a little less than eleven years, I had slowly and
carefully worked my way up to become Amazon’s 156th ranked reviewer. It was a good
run, and I enjoyed it, but then something happened.
They
kicked me out.
And
because they are Amazon, they don’t tell you why they are kicking you out. They
simply inform you that you have broken one of their rules or terms of service,
you are a terrible human being, and we (Amazon) don’t associate with terrible
human beings except for Chinese manufacturers of worthless, dangerous, easily
broken, and unnecessary products, and then they “suppress” all your reviews.
Then it occurred to me: since they no longer publish my reviews, those reviews
revert to being my work, and that means I can publish them.
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| Amazon's "You suck" email, delicately worded in Indiaglish. |
And so,
as a slow and calculated way to resurrect my once bright but now faded blog, and in anticipation of retirement and
more time to devote to stuff I want to do, I decided to resurrect my blog by
republishing my jazz recording reviews. Some of them have appeared in this blog
before in altered (non-Amazon-rule-breaking) format, so those that are
duplicates will be a good lesson in avoiding copyright infringement. The others
will show what I really thought about a lot of these recordings.
Anyway,
it’s great to be returning to my roots. Writing, opinionating, and learning and
teaching about jazz. Today I will finish cleaning up the blog. Tomorrow, I’ll
post a review, and we’ll be on our way.
Again.
