More Fun From America’s Wackiest Congresswoman
April 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |
She’s a gift that keeps on giving.
Happy Birthday
April 29th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |
Everybody say “happy birthday” to “LF,” companion on many of the adventures documented on this blog!
Haydn in Inwood
April 26th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
Hidden up in Inwood, the neighborhood at the very northern tip of Manhattan, is this wonderful church, the Church of the Good Shepherd. I just got back from performing Haydn’s “Missa in Augustii” (aka the Lord Nelson Mass) with Rich Stout and his Cornerstone Chorale. What a great place to play! The stone barrel-vault sanctuary lends a three-second reverberation time, and everything sounds wonderfully warm.
Oh The Things I’ve Seen
April 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |
Today was the first really, really nice day of the season. A group of monks was marking it by playing a lively game of frisbee in the parking lot and street outside my building.
Branch Brook Park
April 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |
Saturday was the beginning of the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Newark’s Branch Brook Park.
Set in one of the remaining nice sections of this troubled city, there are signs of life this spring.
Cleveland, Yeah!
April 17th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |
Makes be proud to be an [ex-]Clevelander.
External Storage, Part 4
April 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
The amount of pleasure I got just from flipping through last summer’s Philadelphia and Ocean Grove vacation photos was tremendous. Not as good as the vacations themselves, but pretty darn good nonetheless.
External Storage, Part 3
April 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
In which it gets really sucky. Last summer I wrote about my new Buffalo TeraStation, a half-terabyte of network storage that I inherited from the office. I quickly moved my entire photo archive over, and started using it as advertised.
A week or so ago it stopped responding. I couldn’t get the shares up on [...]
Brooklyn Symphony
April 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
This Sunday at 3 at the historic St. Anne’s Church on beautiful Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights. Shostakovich, Arutiunian and John David Earnest are on the proram.
Tea Parties
April 14th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |
Scheduled for tax day, these are a load of hooey. This is what I wrote about them on MOL, and I’m sticking to it…
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