Praise him with the sound of trumpets
As I was scrolling through the offerings at TDF a few weeks ago, I spotted a performance by the McCollough Sons of Thunder Brass Band. Hmmm, I thought I remembered my old friend Michael Cogswell mentioning to me that I ought to check them out. Actually, what he told me was that if I was ever able to hear them, I should cancel everything I could be doing and hie myself hence at oncely.
Pratchett and Gaiman: Together Again
At Waterstone's website, Neil">http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/navigate.do?pPageID=1575">Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett. If that isn't enough to whet your interest, the interview is accompanied by excellent Paul Kidby illustrations.
Press Releases More Popular Than Reporting
I've suspected this for years.
Press Your Own Copies of LPs
Yes! Find out that it's a lot harder than you think to make a vinyl record. Best part: Incorrectly centering the disc. (Most record presses do a pretty good job of this.)
Price Gouging and Retail Sales
One of the most common complaints we see when writing about consumer dissatisfaction with CDs is "price gouging" by greedy corporations. Several Stereophile readers have written that they"know" CDs only cost pennies to make, so $16.98 is a rip-off for a product that should sell for under $10.
Primordial Soup's On!
Revisiting Stanley Miller's 1953 experiment about the creation of life on Earth.
Prince Igor
Stephen Walsh's new biography of Stravinsky sounds as though it proves that, at least when it comes to hagiography, sometimes art is better without Craft (ahem!).
Probing Suspension Dynamics
Aka the physics of beer">http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=2&too=100&eve=8&dat=8/1/2007… bubbles.
Productivity Enhancer
Hours of mindless fun drawing and watching your own flipbooks. If I can do it, you can do it.
Productivity Enhancer
A collection (sort of) of short speculative-fiction presented as "The Periodic Table of Science Fiction." Bet you can't read just one!