RFK JR.—THE NEXT ONE OUTTA HERE! PART 1
BACK IN NOVEMBER 2024, I WAS ASTOUNDED AND DISMAYED when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named to be in charge of public health: “darkly satirical given his brain-worm, whale-head, bear-corpse, … Continue reading
BAYREUTH EXULTATIONS—AND BLUES
“WILL THE REAL BAYREUTH PLEASE STAND OUT,” SimanaitisSays, March 27, 2016, offered details of the Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus. Here, a decade later in celebrating Bayreuth’s 150th anniversary, Opera with Opera News offers … Continue reading
IN INCREASED FAVOR OF INVOKING THE 25TH AMENDMENT
EACH DAY BRINGS MORE EVIDENCE that any freely rational human being would recognize the mental incompetence of Donald J. Trump. Recently, we’ve seen his irrational and obscene Easter Message, his … Continue reading
NO MORE INNIES NOR OUTIES??
SIMANAITISSAYS PRIDES ITSELF ON BEING CULTURALLY HEP. Note its recent analyses of “Kit Marlowe—an Elizabethan John le Carré,” “ ‘Poi Tristano,’ Jotted Puccini,” and “Liar, Liar, Middle East on Fire.” … Continue reading
KIT MARLOWE—AN ELIZABETHAN JOHN LE CARRÉ PART 2
YESTERDAY, MICHAEL DOBSON’S LRB PIECE “Flash and Thunder” got me thinking about Christopher Marlowe, my favorite noir Elizabethan. Today in Part 2, we shuffle through Kit’s Tudor closet, not to … Continue reading
KIT MARLOWE—AN ELIZABETHAN JOHN LE CARRÉ PART 1
GREAT WRITERS THINK ALIKE. And also, moderate hacks occasionally parallel the thoughts of competent authors. I’m thinking of two examples: Christopher Marlowe and John le Carré. And me and London … Continue reading
DONATE TRUMP-SIGNED CURRENCY TO ACLU! THEN TELL HIM SO!
MERRIAM-WEBSTER NOTES THE WORD “TRIBUTE” HAS CONTRASTING MEANINGS: One positive; the other, less so. M-W defines a tribute may be “something (such as material evidence or a formal attestation) that … Continue reading
“POI TRISTANO,” JOTTED PUCCINI PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, KEVIN NG ASKED “Is It Possible to Solve the Ending of Puccini’s ‘Turandot’?” We meandered about Puccini’s sketching “poi Tristano” and its love defying death in … Continue reading
“POI TRISTANO,” JOTTED PUCCINI PART 1
CLOSE TO FINISHING HIS OPERA TURANDOT, Giacomo Puccini expressed the intent “poi Tristano,” “then Tristan.” That is, wrap up the complex relationship of the mysterious prince Calaf with ice queen … Continue reading
A SELF-SUPPORTING NOBLE COMPOSER—AND A WOMAN AS WELL PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, DORA PEJAČEVIĆ WAS INTRODUCED as a composer as well as a duchess with Socialist leanings. We started listening to her Symphony in F-sharp minor. (Perhaps you’d … Continue reading
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