Forget Phonics
Make mine music: "Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system's ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics."
Wes Phillips
C'Mon, You Know You Want To!
Huckleberry tries to smirk some extra kibble out of me.
Terry Pratchett Flow Chart
My admiration or Terry Pratchett is no secret, but to the uninitiated, an ouvre approaching 50 books must seem intimidating—not to mention indicative of a less-than-stellar consistency.
Bed Panther
Bagheera is convinced that her ancestors on the savannah hunted the colossal wooly queen-sized bed.
Stimmung!
Paul Hillier decided to record Stockhausen's Stimmung. The composer had a few few thoughts.
The Snob Argument—Again
It's time for a new round of "Shakespeare debunking," arguing that the son of an illiterate laborer could never have written works so full of science, history, legal shenanigans, and aristocratic mores—that it must have been a cabal, one that included at least a few nobles.
Filming Bob
Murray Lerner spent 1963–1965 filming Bob Dylan, "a study of a major artist in transition." Soon, we'll finally see it.
21st Century Airships
I'm a sucker for blimps, so I dream of a day when our skies are filled by them. Air & Space looks at the technological challenges and possibilities of that eventuality.
Riley Rock Index
I've been spending the last few days exploring Riley Rock Index, billed as music's megaportal—justifiably, I believe.
Who Wrote the Book of Jungle?
Richard Sherman strolls down memory lane, telling us what it was like to work on the last Walt Disney animated feature, The Jungle Book. Well, there were more cartoons from Disney, but TJB was Walt's last.