Psychology 101: Separate And Not Equal

Hi, 

This morning(ish) I took a break from practicing something called “Arco” from the book ”How To Make A 37 Year Old Man Want To Stick A Dull Knife In His Eye In Four Easy Steps” and listened semi-carefully to the following story. 

First was this piece reminding me that I have to many friends on facebook and that people pretty much always form their beliefs about how the world works based on something called “anecdotal evidence” instead of doing what in successful business circles is known as “running the numbers”. In case you don’t have however long the following embedded audio file is to listen to what I learned, ”anecdotal evidence” is basically akin to the thing this part this sentence links to and “running the numbers” is the thing you do when you want to find a way to, oh I don’t know, have a successful baseball team. 

Then I came across this tidbit of a human interest story about a woman named Charlie Morgan. That’s right, a woman named Charlie! And guess what else!?!??! This woman named Charlie’s spouse is named Karen. Karen is not a man. Because you’re so smart I know you see where I’m going with this story about the soldier who returned home from something called “war” to find out that she and her spouse would not have the same health care benefits as a certain other groups of veterans who were not married to people with the same set of chromosomes. This of course serves to inform my continuing assumption that pretty much everything I ever learned in school is a lie. Except for the part where they told me that anecdotal evidence is unreliable. Or so I hear.  

In related news, this rest of this sentence links to one a new release I think is kind of annoying in a really disappointing way. 

In related news, you can still go iTunes and write a review of the album the rest of this sentence links to and possibly win an autographed copy of said album. You can also come to Rockwood Music Hall on Saturday night and watch us perform the songs from said album out of order. Pretty impressive, I know. 

In unrelated news, you can also go to iTunes and write a review of the EP that the rest of this sentence links to. You probably won’t get an autographed copy of said EP, but you will endear yourself to me for at least the next week or so. 

Mwah! 

M

P.S. Tonight you can tell me how you like my new hair cut when I’ll be playing with Will James at a place called Rockwood Music Hall. 

P.P.S. I know, I never heard of it either. 

P.P.P.S. Thank god for google maps.