The Times had a respectful if distant obituary this morning. They wrote about how he’d become distant and isolated in his later years, narrowing down his circle to his chosen set of musicians — who were by and large also family members. He’d been out there for a while though. Back in the ’70s I [...]
Via Kottke an, um, analysis of the Lands’ End catalog. I wondered if the art director had this all in mind. I wondered if this guy needs to get out more. Today one of their catalogs landed in the mailbox again. But it (apparently) wasn’t this one.
The SciFi channel was pushing this mini-series in a big way a few weeks ago, so I carved out some time to watch it. It’s a reinvention of “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz,” the rest of L. Frank Baum’s delightful series of Oz books. The 1939 movie has sucked most of the oxygen out of [...]
This afternoon I took The Daughter out to see the New Jersey Symphony and Westminster Symphonic Choir perform the tremendous “Resurrection” Symphony. I’ll tell you what, there are very few better ways to spend an hour and half than listening to this piece live. Number three on my “top 10 loudest symphonic works” countdown, no [...]
The scene this morning from out front:
This was just a little over a week ago:
I don’t want you to think I make a habit of seeing movies based on 1980s Japanese children’s toys. It’s just that A. had already ordered it up on pay-per-view. Anyway, how bad could it be? I remember my nephew J. loved those things when he was little and now he’s working on his PhD [...]
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