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Stephen Strauss argues that we can only really know our nearest relatives by creating cloned reincarnations.
Marc Fisher wonders if sharing the hit record experience is possible in the age of iPod.
Over at Doug Ramsey's always worth checking-out Rifftides, Randy Sandke offers a personal remembrance of Michael Brecker. Not your usual hagiography.
The definition of "fetish" is "object or part of the body that arouses libidinal impulses—often to the exclusion of genital impulses." Fetishizing that annoying Microsoft Word paperclip, however, goes beyond extreme kink into deeply creepy territory.
Website Ionarts alerts us to "the amazingly successful free podcast of the classical concert series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum."
Over 40,000 downloads of classical concerts? Maybe it's not all doom and gloom in the classical kingdom.
Link below is to the Gardner's podcast site, which actually wants you to share the music: "You are free to share and reproduce these podcasts, and pass this great classical music along to your friends and family. The same goes for the individual tracks you’ll find sorted by musician and composer in the Music Library. We only ask that you…
This one minute commercial for the French movie channel Canal+ nearly had coffee spurting out my nose.
When I traveled through Wisconsin in the '70s, you could still buy these for a quarter at junk shops around the state. Sure wish I'd taken advantage of the opportunity—as if we needed more stuff around here.
As a child who grew up reading the light humor of S. J. Perelmam and James Thurber, I worshipped at the altar of Art Buchwald. I didn't know it at the time, but, looking back on it, he taught me a tremendous amount about the importance of voice. If the practice truly is treacherous, well, Buchwald certainly made it look easy.
Oh my gosh, how on earth did anybody ever manage to be so consistently funny on a twice a week deadline? When I was growing up, receiving Buchwald's annual collection of columns was as much a part of Christmas for me as getting the new Beatles album.
Buchwald…
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Thank you so much for following the show blog. My goodness, these shows are such great work. Writing, in general, you know, is a kind of solitary activity. I think that's partly why I've been drawn to it; I'm a kind of solitary guy. But this team-effort show-blogging stuff is not solitary at all. The entire process runs opposite to what I normally think of writing and to how I approach writing. By the end — actually, almost right from the start — I am feeling completely drained.
Thank you so much for following the show blog. My goodness, these shows are such great work. Writing, in general, you know, is a kind of solitary activity. I think that's partly why I've been drawn to it; I'm a kind of solitary guy. But this team-effort show-blogging stuff is not solitary at all. The entire process runs opposite to what I normally think of writing and to how I approach writing. By the end — actually, almost right from the start — I am feeling completely drained.
These shows leave me feeling a bit behind — more behind than usual, that is —…