Pure Pop for Now People
Is it a good day for song memes when Your Humble Blogger attacks two of them, or a bad one? This is from the inimitable John Scalzi, who asks whether the three-minute songs in our collections are perfect pop songs….
music, music, music
Your Humble Blogger had been thinking about writing a music note, having finished rating six thousand songs on the old hard drive, and then Wayman told us everything we could ever want to know about his musical tastes. So, I’ll…
blank, blanking, blanks
A thread over at Baseball Primer that I had dismissed as worthless degenerated into a pissing match that would have stretched the limits of worthlessness even as applied to the internet, where Replacement Level is measured in Godwins, if it…
Book Report: God’s Secretaries
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First off, when Your Humble Blogger first put God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible on the want-to-read list, it was from a half-heard public radio thing, and not because the author is Harold Nicolson’s grandson. It turns…
Parshah Vayeishev
Well, and this week is Parshah Vayeishev Gen 37:1-40:23) and it’s about time to go ahead and do it. By the way, for any Gentle Reader who wants just a summary, the Lubavitchers (of course) have a Parshah page from…
mind those p’s and q’s
I wasn’t going to comment on the discussion of coffee sizes at Starbucks, inspired by a Dave Barry column and still ongoing, but somehow I feel I need to. Perhaps I still haven’t gotten over being told by a Starbucks…
State of the blog
November, oddly enough, seems like it wasn’t a bad month for this Tohu Bohu of ours. I wrote 45 entries, which is quite a few more than previous months (Oct-34, Sept-37, Aug-22). Of those, only nine were Book Reports, so…
Book Report: Holy Tango of Literature
It’s always an ethical tight spot when Your Humble Blogger reads an old buddy’s book. On one level, it’s a bit like going backstage; quite aside from the possibility of actually offending the author/friend with sincerely critical points, there’s the…
Never. Gonna. Happen.
In today’s news from an alternate universe, Renzo Piano has been chosen to build the addition to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Right, right. On the other hand, I scoffed when the MFA announced their Norman Foster-designed New…
MFQ again
The New York Times Magazine appears to have gone sort of nuts for toys this week. In addition to a disturbingly wonderful slide show of cutting-edge Japanese playgrounds, and another slideshow that’s less wonderful and more disturbing, what with the…