music despite everything

Sashi's just posted a poem that I've loved for years, from a book we were discussing earlier this evening. Perhaps my favorite line in it is this one: "To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil."

I've been Devil-worshipping a great deal recently, both here and elsewhere. (It's hard to help myself; paying attention to injustice is part of my job.) There's one more injustice I need to yell about--the so-called "controversy" over the Khalil Gibran International Academy--but after that, it will be time to write of innovative book design and nerdy progressive Seattle hip-hop, a neighborhood doppelganger and a recent coincidence with roots in nineteenth-century Delhi, some funny things about Turkish grammar, and food you should be eating if you aren't already. I promise.