Wes Phillips

You've got to love an essay that has the following paraphrase of Plato's Meno dialog:




Socrates: Here is a square with sides of length 2 and area equal to 4. If we double the area, to 8 units, what will the length of a side be?

The finale of the 1963 American Folk Blues Festival. Otis Spann and Memphis Slim on piano; Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson,Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, and Muddy Waters sing; Matt "Guitar" Murphy, guitar; and Bill Stepney, drums.

Or, perhaps a Stephen">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/">Stephen Mejias blog entry.

Rob Paravonian says, "I'll See You in Hell, Pachelbel."

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I'd been looking forward to reading Neal Gabler's Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination. Well, that was before I read his essay "Walt">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-gabler17dec17,0,1578644.story… Disney: Man or Mouse" in the LA Times. It was, shall we say, curiously flat for such a meaty subject.

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I'm a sucker for animation about dreams—although I always skip the dream sequences in hard-boiled detective novels after the protagonist has been sapped by the bad guys.