At <I>On an Overgrown Path</I>, blogger Pliable ruminates on the Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the glorious music the order has inspired.
There's Poulenc's searing, glorious opera, of course, but did you know the sisters commissioned a piece by Handel?
You either loved Molly Ivins—well, I should probably just stop there. If you loved the written word and valued wit as much as spleen, you just did love Molly. I'll miss her.
It reads like the plot of an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel: 145 Roman soldiers survive the death of their general, Marcus Crassus, and, as mercenaries, fight their way across the ancient world, winding up in China.
Huckleberry reminds me that I don't have the big ears in this household. Plus, <I>his</I> swivel.
Bagheera is feeling royally cranky.
<I>Scientific American</I> takes a look at online dating.
<I>Firing Squad</I> has an interesting take on DRM. Warning: the site has super-annoying "content links that are just as annoying as "malicious viruses and rootkits."
Shalom Auslander didn't review Mailer's <I>The Castle</I>. He really, really wanted to. He just couldn't bring himself to <I>read</I> it. I know what he means.
But the classics never stale.
This isn't exactly the way I submitted it to Tris, but if I created this list again tomorrow, it would again be different. So. My Top 10 of 2006 looked something like this: