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 [...]
Now coming to Iraq, the same great decision-making methods that were applied to the Space Shuttle Columbia.
A free concert, August 20 at 3pm, Template B’Nai Jeshurun, 1025 South Orange Ave., Short Hills, NJ, with music of Chabrier, Richard Strauss and Robert Schumann.
Maybe a two-year suspension isn’t enough. If they started handing out lifetime bans maybe the rules would get a little respect, and the sport could salvage some of its lost credibility.
The brutal heat wave continues, with temperatures here in NJ hovering in the high 90s to low 100s. We’ve had three blackouts since Saturday, including two yesterday evening. Each lasted about an hour. I respectfully suggest that we all be sure to turn off anything that’s not necessary. The 40-watt bulb over your stove may [...]
Today I’m smashing a bottle of champagne across the bow of www.transitionworks.org, an online community I’ve built for this group. The story of this project is available in the “pages” section.
After losing connectivity to my mail server, I tried working with my ISP’s on-line tech support staff. The failed the “Turing Test.”
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On The Cleveland School of Restaurant Naming (2)
On Lake Isaac (1)
On Great Lakes Science Center (3)
On Stravinsky on YouTube (1)
