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Something for Thursday

Bruce. Live.

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A to Z: Uzoigwe

African classical music, what little I’ve heard, tends to be as interesting as any nationalistic classical music, especially when the language of Western music is combined with the folk tunes and indigenous rhythms of the homeland. This is yet another … Continue reading

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Go back in time to when you were a kid. Your parents tell you they’re taking you out for dinner, and you get to pick the place. Where are you eating?

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A to Z: Tower

As I near the end of this alphabetic exercise, I look back and note a complete lack of women cited here. Now, this blogging meme-thing was clearly not meant to serve as any kind of exhaustive, or even representative, survey … Continue reading

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Redeeming April

One of my favorite tasks: putting up the flags in spring., originally uploaded by Jaquandor. This has been a pretty trying month, all the way around. But at least I get to put the flags out on the front of … Continue reading

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Earth Day

Sorry we keep making such a mess of you, you sweet old planet, you!

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A to Z: Sibelius

Jean Sibelius is one of those composers I struggle with from time to time. He seems like a composer whose music I should like more than I do, and yet, I don’t dislike his music. I’ve never really made a … Continue reading

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Taking a break from writing about fictional spaceships….

…here are some photos, from a NASA FLickr stream, of an actual real spaceship launch. Specifically, the Antares rocket, developed by a private company. I think that the human future in space will depend in great part on private enterprise, … Continue reading

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Sentential Links

Pilfering more participants from A-to-Z this week…. :: Kind of cheating today, since the letter Q doesn’t exist in the Greek alphabet! So, quests it is (it was a toss up between quests and queens) and I’m going with the … Continue reading

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Some random thoughts on “Once Upon a Time”

I like this show a lot. We watch it every week. But it’s a really maddening show, because there are times it’s so wonderfully written (thank God they’ve got Jane Espenson on the staff), and other when it is so…not … Continue reading

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