The conference date was approaching, and my paper wasn’t finished. To be honest, it wasn’t exactly started. Months before, I had drafted an irresistible abstract. I reread the two major texts I promised to discuss. As the weeks ticked by, some critical articles arrived via interlibrary loan. Some online research got done in the wee [...]
Archive for the ‘Art’ category
Another Show
Nights like this, every third week or so for almost exactly five years, I would get home, turn off my sense of self-preservation, and write a review to post by morning. I don’t have an opera blog anymore, and it’s something of a relief, but that’s where I’ve been. I’m wondering if there’s any way [...]
Wrong!
You may choose to imagine the title of the post uttered as by John McLaughlin. “Wrong!” I like really wrong covers. I’m not talking about “oh wow did they really do a [genre] cover of [song in aesthetically incompatible genre]?” That used to be edgy, man, but it’s so done. The bluegrass cover of “Single [...]
I’ve always had good taste
When my brother and I were crappy adolescents, we had very similar tastes in everything, mostly because I idolized him at the time. He loved Jimi Hendrix and German techno, so those were things that I liked. Our favorite movie was Koyaanisqatsi. We were into South American languages and medieval icons, and we both loved [...]
Tuesday lists
RB and I are watching a rerun of SNL as I type this. Oooo-weeee… What up with that! What up with that! Anyway. For your Tuesday pleasure, a few intriguing lists I’ve seen floating around the Internets. 1. 15 Wonderful Words with No English Equivalent (via Mentalfloss.com). These are all fantastic, but my favorite is “Iktsuarpok,” [...]
Are we forgetting art?
Obviously, some among us are getting that art made all the time, doing the painting and the playing and the poeming for the rest of us. Making art might be your job, your hobby, or something you end up doing because your kid needs a story, a song, or a drawing buddy. Some of us [...]
On Why I No Longer do Shots with the Authors of Left Behind
S. and I met at Summer Language Nerd Convention in Bloomington in, what, 1999 or so, so it’s already more than a decade we know each other, as people say in areas where Yiddish has futzed with syntax a certain way. Years ago, when I was dating someone who worked in the movie industry*, S. [...]
Space invaders strike paris
I noticed the first Invader affixed to a guardhouse outside of the Musee d’Histoire Naturelle. After I notice the second, finding more became a bit of a pastime. As it turns out, Mr. Invader landed in Paris and planted 1000 works — I only found these six.
Tuesday time suck
Good morning, Whatsiterati! For your consideration today, a few videos / links / photo galleries to divert you from your usual Tuesday business. 1. Security-camera video of the tornado hitting the St. Louis airport. 2. Audio clip of the official government announcement to residents in the Chernobyl area, alerting them to the fact that there [...]
