LET’S HEAR IT FOR….
I DETEST CANNED APPLAUSE and especially canned laughter. Somehow it sounds ever so phony. But genuine applause is a joy to performers. And a fascinating topic in Nick Slonimsky’s Lectionary … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS VARIETY
MY WEEKLY AUTOMOTIVE NEWS sure provides variety in addition to its essential coverage of this critical U.S. industry. Here are tidbits on three disparate topics gleaned from its February 19, … Continue reading
CHEAT.YU.COM
ADVISORY: IF YOU CLICK on the above, you’ll find that “The domain yu.com is for sale. To purchase, call …..” Further Advisory: Don’t do this unless you learn more about … Continue reading
HOT STUFF, NOT MERELY SORDID
“ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE STORM of love making?,” Woodrow Wilson wrote. Yes, that Woodrow Wilson. This, from a new book by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler with this title and … Continue reading
TRUMP OVERCOUNTS YET AGAIN!
FOR A GUY WITH SUCH GENIUS (SELF-PROFESSED), Donald Trump sure can’t count. As reported February 16, 2024 in Voice of America, The New York Times, and just about everywhere else … Continue reading
YET MORE DRAGON LORE
YOU’D THINK THIS WEBSITE’S “Dragons be Here and There Parts 1 and 2,” July 7, 2022, would have satisfied my (and your) curiosity. However, 2024 is the Year of the … Continue reading
WERE OUR ANCESTORS LIKE US?
I’VE BEEN ENJOYING SIMON BANKS’ OPERA: The Autobiography of the Western World. Like other chapters in the book, it examines fundamental questions of western civilization from the perspective of opera: … Continue reading
EMAIL ELUCIDATION
THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY, ALAS, is sometimes a sewer. However I must say that, garbage deleted with a click, there are also gems of email elucidation, serendipitous bits of knowledge I … Continue reading
LET’S TALLY UP NOW
THIS ALL STARTED with my recently perusing Mayhew’s London and his tale “Of the Tally Packman.” Mayhew writes of 19th-century London, “The pedlar tallyman is a hawker who supplies his … Continue reading
OPERA TIDBITS FROM SIR DENIS (AND DENNIS) PART 2
YESTERDAY A DIFFERENT APPROACH was offered for operatic review: Combine Daughter Suz and my Met HD Live Carmen experiences with the irreverent—and occasionally non-PC—analyses of Sir Denis Forman’s A Night … Continue reading
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