Could This Performance Change Your Life?
Jason Victor Serinus, who sent it our way, suggests it might. It will certainly make your morning coffee spurt out your nose.
Wes Phillips
What Did I Do Last Night?
Huckleberry, ever the frat boy, has just one question.
Late December Pensées
Bagheera gets thoughtful when the days get short.
The Art of Science
Princeton has published its 2006 60 images that best represent accomplishments and concepts of science.
James Brown on the TAMI Show
I saw JB in concert about this time and it was a life altering experience. I probably wasn't the only white boy-child in the audience, but it sure felt like it. I wasn't unwelcome—I was simply out of place. Once the Flames started playing, and we music geeks were pulled towards the stage, I felt right at home. JB was mesmerizing.
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Attention, Nobel Prize Committee!
Phil Ford deserves a Physics prize for his explanation of time as it relates to the beat in the work of James Brown. It's a delightful read.
What Am I, Chopped Liver?
Jeremy Denk opines, "Something that is definitely not chopped liver literally, metaphorically, or in any other way is the slow movement of Schumann's D minor Trio. (Please see: The Art of the Graceful Segue, by Jeremy Denk, Hyperion Books, 2031, p. 5832.)"
James Brown
The New Yorker, right on the money, as usual.
Mo' Mozart
John Potts delivers a Parnassian appreciation of the boy genius.
Musurgia Universalis
Father Athanasius Kircher explains just about everything—and the pictures are gorgeous.