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This is a test. The site encountered some more tech issues earlier this week, and these issues have actually damaged the site…you may notice that about six weeks’ worth of posts have disappeared. I am still working on various issues that haven’t resolved yet. Please bear with me! And this was supposed to be a good “content creation” week, too…dammit…. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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I promised a longer post about the Artemis II mission that successfully splashed down some days ago, but…I don’t know that I have a longer post about it, really. I do have a pretty short one: I’m thrilled to confirm that even as so much about the world seems to be going wildly wrong–and it’s doing so because a lot of people that we have chosen to run things openly want the world to go wildly wrong, as long as they’re benefitting from it–we humans are still at heart a species that is always looking over the next hill, around the next bendDown the rabbit hole….

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Jessie Montgomery’s atmospheric and cyclical work “Rounds” is up this week. The piece, for piano and strings, takes inspiration from poet TS Eliot: Rounds for solo piano and string orchestra is inspired by the imagery and themes from T.S. Eliot’s epic poem Four Quartets. Early in the first poem, Burnt Norton, we find these evocative lines : At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,Neither ascent nor decline.Down the rabbit hole….

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I’ve just come through what has been a particularly obnoxious period of time at work…my main work area was relocated, and the great majority of the work involved in relocating my work area fell on me, so I guess a better way of saying that would be, “I relocated my work area.” In the middle of that relocation effort I had a brief mini-vacation that felt more like a pause to gather breath than an actual break, and even while moving all of my Stuff I still had to execute normal job duties along the way. (By way of analogy, IDown the rabbit hole….

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One of my favorite James Bond theme songs is Gladys Knight’s title tune for 1989’s Licence to Kill. Both the film and the song tend to be underrated, but I think both are fantastic. The Licence to Kill song starts with the same horn riff that opened the song to Goldfinger, an homage which necessitated royalty payments to that song’s creators. But Gladys Knight’s singing is the real star of the show here. She has one of those big voices that can fill whichever room she’s in, and fill it here she does. This is one of the best of all Bond songs.Down the rabbit hole….

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Here’s something fascinating: an entire album comprising a ballet written by a prominent rapper! RZA is the leader of Wu-Tang Clan, a hip-hop collective that has been around for over thirty years now. That is, I admit openly, the extent of my knowledge of RZA. Hip-hop has never been a musical genre to which I have paid much attention, though not out of dislike in any way. I’ve found, pretty consistently, that when I am exposed to hip-hop in any extended way, I find myself intrigued by it and respecting it. So why haven’t I explored it? Well…time, mainly. IDown the rabbit hole….

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…let’s do this week’s Sunday Stealing, shall we? 1. Can you touch your nose with your tongue? No. I can roll my tongue, though. Apparently that’s a genetic thing that only some people can do. 2. What foreign language did you study in school? How much of it do you still remember? French. I don’t remember much, verbally, but when I encounter written French I can pick my way through it, kinda-sorta. I’m able to discern what the road signs in Canada are telling me, if I look to the French side. I do wish sometimes that I had kept upDown the rabbit hole….