The Five-Foot Shelf
David Mehegan remembers his grandfather's devotion to the Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books. Mehegan contends that the "Five-Foot Shelf" was the lodestone for "the life of a totally successful human being."
Wes Phillips
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Musurgia Universalis
Father Athanasius Kircher explains just about everything—and the pictures are gorgeous.
Because Nothing Says "Merry Christmas" Like Schoenberg
Kyle">http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/12/merry_christmas_from_ahn… Gann has posted Schoenberg's Weihnachtsmusik for our Christmas bliss. If you think Arnold never wrote a melody you'd like, take a listen to this gorgeous setting of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming."
Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens
Because nothing says Christmas like marimbas and wild bass! BTW, if the marimbas look backwards, it's because the clip was designed to be projected in one of those film jukeboxes, where they were in fact viewed from the other side.
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Louis Armstrong "Swinging on Nothing"
Christmas without Pops? Unthinkable!
Christmas Cartoon Extravanganza!
The 50 greatest cartoons of all time? Could be.
Holiday Music Antidote #3
The finale of the 1963 American Folk Blues Festival. Otis Spann and Memphis Slim on piano; Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson,Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, and Muddy Waters sing; Matt "Guitar" Murphy, guitar; and Bill Stepney, drums.
To Make a Proof "Foolproof," You Need to Get Rid of a Lot of Fools
You've got to love an essay that has the following paraphrase of Plato's Meno dialog:
Socrates: Here is a square with sides of length 2 and area equal to 4. If we double the area, to 8 units, what will the length of a side be?
Socrates: Here is a square with sides of length 2 and area equal to 4. If we double the area, to 8 units, what will the length of a side be?
Oh Really?
I find my logic compelling, but Bagheera doesn't buy it—she thinks DVD players make excellent perches.
Huckleberry's Full Elvis
"Are you lonesome tonight,
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
. . .
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?"
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
. . .
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?"