COMM 337: Links to today's reading, epigraph

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do." -- Elvis Costello, quoted by Timothy White, "A Man out of Time Beats the Clock" Musician No. 60 (Oct. 1983): 52.

Hey, the reading is just a few items down. Here's the permalink ... which I formatted, no less, so it'll open in a new window. We'll listen to the NPR interview with the reporter, Evan Wright who covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq for Rolling Stone magazine.

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Elvis Costello's words of wisdom about writing about music -- which I think apply equally as well to writing about writing -- are traced to their source by Alan P. Scott, who once used a video display terminal that students of ancient history will no doubt be glad to know showed green letters on a black screen like those we used at The Rock Island Argus in the later Paleolithic Age.