What do Empire’s list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows Of All Time have in common? All but four of them aired in the ’90s and ’00s. Apparently someone held a gun to their head and said, don’t you dare leave out the original Star Trek or Monty Python.
I really have no problem with [...]
In the latest edition of my college’s alumni magazine, I learned of the death of Dr. Lawrence Hartzell this January of cancer.
I first ran into Dr. Hartzell in the summer of 1974. I’d gotten a scholarship to attend the B-W Summer Music Clinic, and among the activities were classroom sessions on music theory and [...]
After too long a layout, yesterday I hit the road again. Now when you’ve been as lazy and unmotivated as I’ve been, getting going again isn’t as easy as all that. I was reminded of it immediately when, after pulling on my suddenly way-too-small (if you get my drift) cycling clothes and pulling the bike [...]
Speaking of movies, here’s another top-right one. Gene Hackman, John Travolta, Renee Russo, Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farino, James Gandolfini. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, based on the Ellmore Leonard novel. A pleasure from start to finish, a tight story played just right.
If you ever find yourself nostalgic for the ’60s, this is your cure. How bad can it be if it’s not Pootie Tang? Picture if you will this graph:
“The Godfather goes in the top right corner — great talent all around, terrific movie. The bottom left is inhabited by the kinds of things that they [...]
If you’re in New York on May 18, be sure to catch a concert.
Last Saturday found us on a photo safari up to the New Jersey Botanical Gardens at Skylands. I try to get up there every year or two to spend a few hours wandering around the beautiful mountaintop grounds, and checking out what’s in bloom. This time of year, it’s daffodils and cherry trees, with the occasional magnolia.
Cosmic Variance talks about Influence, and what grad students can do to best position themselves for future success. But this blog post, while on the surface about physics PhD candidates and post-docs, strikes me in the same way as “The Inner Game Of Tennis,” in which you can easily play out the metaphor to whatever [...]
Congrats to Claire, who got her license today.
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