It’s probably not good for my intellectual well-being, but I subscribe to a couple of right-wing mailing lists just to keep track. Sometimes it’s difficult, like this weekend’s “Worldview Weekend” news. If you’re not familiar with them they’re conservative, “fundamentalist” Christian organization run by a guy who is a strict Biblical literalist, especially the parts about how awesome capitalism is.
Here are my box pool numbers for the Super Bowl. Surprisingly, they’re not too bad. Usually I end up with 2/8 and 8/2, or something equally unlikely.
Colts 3, Saints 8
Colts 4, Saints 9
The BBE teams up with the New Amsterdam Singers for two free concerts in the next couple of days. A program of the “Three Bs” includes:
Johann Sebastian Bach: O Jesu Christ mein Lebens Licht, BWV 118
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gott ist unser Zuversicht, from Cantata 197
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When I showed this to daughter C., she accused me of stealing from Amazon.
Who are these leftover ’60s guys in the temple wearing pink turbans?
It’s always amazing-slash-disappointing to us to see the poor turnout at SOPAC. Tonight they had pianist Jeremy Denk doing Schumann and Bach to a half-empty house. Denk may not be a household name, but he sure is good enough.
One of the most-read pages on this site is my Styleswitcher, and despite that I carelessly let it become broken. It’s now fixed.
We knew we were on the right track when the first thing we saw walking in the door of Tricia’s ceramics show was this one, the pileated woodpecker, exactly what we saw in the Great Swamp a couple of days before.
I’m considering donating money to Harry Reid’s Republican challenger in Nevada. If the majority leader can’t lead, it’s time to find someone who can.
Is this trip really necessary?
The “Terminator” franchise is a great example of a sci-fi mythology, and mining its veins of self-reference and historical paradoxes has been a rewarding enterprise for most (though not all) of the movies, as well as the “Chronicles” TV series.
But generally, you want to move the ball ahead a [...]
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