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I just posted my review of the Cincinnati Pops' The Never-Ending Waltz at Face the Music blog.
Huckleberry's decided to be Igor this year. Does that mean I have to go as Dr. Frankenstein?
The Library of Congress has posted scads of Aaron Copland's music. Forget doing anything else this weekend.
After the 2006 TDF, even the most innocent of us must realize how pervasive doping is at the highest competitive levels. How much would us athletic duffers benefit from chemical augmentation?
Stuart Stevens found out—and his story is fascinating.
Long Before Deceit and Lust
I left Autumn in the kitchen with the double-sided tape. I went back into the living room, stopped the Sexsmith album, and replaced it with Christian's mix CD. I sat down on my orange couch, wrapped my shivering bones in a warm wool blanket, and skipped to track 6, Sexsmith's delicate "Dandelion Wine."
Now that I was finally paying attention, I noticed immediately that the song sounded faster — even a little more rocking — than I'd remembered. This was unusual. I thought I knew this song fairly well. Was the version on Christian's CD-R different from…
Well, one of my heroes, Mr. Tom Waits.
"'I didn't just marry a beautiful woman,' he says, 'I married a record collection.'"
You'd think we knew pretty much all there was to know about water, wouldn't you? Well, zap it with high-energy X-rays, subject it to extremely high pressure, and make sure the proportions of H2 and 02 are just right and you get "a highly energetic material."
Excellent performance of "Crossroads" by a Cream that came to play. But kids, this video is evidence that you shouldn't take acid and operate a camera.