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Sentential Links

Linkage…. :: I think it could work, but I don’t know enough about fantasy football to be able to construct a workable baseline for weekly points scored, and that’s needed in order to be able to build workable monsters for … Continue reading

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Sunday Burst of Weird and Awesome

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: An artist starts sketches, and lets her four-year-old finish them. :: Victorian mansion for sale. Keep scrolling. :: Two thrill-seekers PLUS crane at top of second highest building in the world EQUALS some serious vertigo! … Continue reading

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Symphony Saturday

After the monumental edifice last week that is Beethoven’s Ninth, we turn now to something much shorter: a symphony by Franz Schubert that may or may not even be complete. It’s his Symphony No. 8, often referred to as “the … Continue reading

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Instaweek

The week in photos….

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Evgeni

I’ve “hated” Evgeni Plushenko for years…not really, but in that sense of “hate” in which, if you were a Bills fan during the 1980s and 1990s, you “hated” Dan Marino, or in the way I “hate” Tom Brady now. You … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Ach! I can’t find my copy of this CD! I know it’s somewhere and I haven’t looked exhaustively for it yet, but I wanted to listen to it the other day. It’s called The Long Black Veil, and it features … Continue reading

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

So here’s an intriguing case study in how musical works are affected by the nature of their creation. There is a composer from Japan named Mamoru Samurgoch, whose work has been highly regarded for a number of years. He’s done … Continue reading

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Another reminder: Ask Me Anything!

Yar, what ye be waitin’ for, mateys! Ask Me Anything! (Leave questions there as opposed to on this post, because it’s easier for me to keep ’em in one place.) Or ask via Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Flickr … Continue reading

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Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure….

Some awesome kisses: And to these we add the newest Entry Into The Pantheon: I honestly have to give credit to the writers on The Big Bang Theory. Character development on this show tends to proceed at a pretty glacial … Continue reading

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Stuff in the time of the Bard

I recently read a delightful history book called Shakespeare’s Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects, by Neil MacGregor. This book takes a great approach to painting a picture of Elizabethan London: MacGregor finds twenty objects from … Continue reading

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