Earlier I’d complained about scattered documentation in this popular open-source package, so I’ve posted an article I hope will be helpful in negotiating one of the less-documented features, creating index (aka “hub”) pages. I was also driven to do this by the fact that it’s a major feature yet completely absent from the reference book [...]
If you’re an XM subscriber, check out the ’60s channel the next few days as they roll through every charted song of the decade in chron order. As of now, they’re in May 1968…
He of the amazing high register succumbed to kidney failure earlier today. There will be plenty of ink from people who knew him, but I can share one indirect anecdote.
When I was in college, I studied trumpet with a member of the Cleveland Orchestra. I’d gone to Severance Hall one weekend to hear them play [...]
This one gives me the creeps more than anything I’ve seen in a while
The photographer who shot what may be the most famous war photograph ever has died at 94. The photo depicts soldiers raising the flag on Mount Suribachi after a four-day battle to climb the 546 mount. 6800 US servicemen died in the battle.
Rosenthal won a Pulitzer for the photo, which has a classical composition that [...]
Part of Trio’s “Brilliant but Cancelled,” “Lookwell” features Adam West delivering a stone-faced sendup of a seventies TV detective drama. He plays an actor who played a detective on TV, and uses his honorary badge to get in the middle of crime investigations. Dig the halting, Batman-style delivery of his brilliant deductions. Best line, delivered [...]
It’s almost as though back in school, while the rest of us were reading “1984″ and thinking how terrible it could be, there was this whole group of people who were thinking “yeah, this could work!”
As the Yankees finish of a five-game sweep of the Red Sox. Shortly before the All-Star Break, some sportswriters were writing off the Yankees’ season. Now a month and a half later there’s been a ten-game swing in the A.L. East. Gotta love it.
Picking up a nice bottle of red to go with my steak tonight, the wine merchant here in Maplewood got my attention. Usually they’ve got a Brahms symphony on, but this time it was Stravinsky’s Orpheus. Now there’s something you don’t hear in a retail establishment every day. It got me too looking for I.S. blog resources, where I found a nice piece about his Variations. Here’s to sophisticated taste.
The other day I posted a summary of a more popular blog than this (what isn’t, at least so far?), and they were kind enough to link back. Besides garnering a few more visits a day (thank you very much) I started getting a lot more spam posts. Fortunately, they’ve all been trapped thanks to [...]
Jaded is a new blog by Anthony Cartouche (not his real name), sharing editorial responsibility with bram_jafuv (not only is that not his real name, I have no idea who he actually is.)
The writing shows signs of being more hard-hitting than before. See bram’s post on the brand-spanking new diagnosis of “personality disorder,” a more cost-effective diagnosis than “post-traumatic stress disorder.”
A couple of blogs I ran across are worth noting. Kung Fu Monkey combines a left-wing political point of view I favor, along with varied sentence structure and a smattering of obscenity, into the kind of mix I favor. The author is a stand-up comedian as well as a screenwriter, and has a physics degree [...]
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