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I can't let 2013 go by without noting the 100th anniversary of the performance that came to be viewed as Day 1 of the era of modern art. It wasn't really that, of course. Schoenberg's much stranger Pierrot Lunaire had been performed more than six months earlier, and cubist painting had been under way for several…
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Weekend Music Several years ago my friend Robert sent me a CD of the Chopin Ballades played by Krystian Zimerman. It disappeared among a welter of home-burned CDs that I was having a lot of trouble keeping track of, and then was forgotten, until Robert mentioned it to me a few weeks ago. I found…
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"kidney impaired function" says "This genuinely answered my own problem, thank you!" Of course I'm always happy to help, but the post was about the Zimmerman-Martin case.
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Time continues to speed up unacceptably. And yet I am obliged to accept it. I thought it was about three weeks ago that pasted the URL for this piece on America's web site into a blog post template intending to write about it later. Actually it was almost two months ago, on June 28. But…
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"As the bottom of the shoes, it contacts with ground closely and directly."
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"Cain Velasquez, like you said (last year), I'm going to come back and I'm going to take my belt again."
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The New York Times has one of many obituaries. I've read three of his novels: The Hunted, Killshot, and Bandits, in that order. Bandits was a book on tape, and I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that I liked it a bit less than the other two. But I thought…
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Only one thing ever makes you safe–putting your trust in God. –Caryll Houselander
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Signed itself "renal failure."
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Yes, as I may or may not have said in that long piece about Lovecraft last week, I had decided after those three novellas that I didn't need to read any more Lovecraft now, and perhaps not ever. But one day I needed something to read while eating lunch and the only reading matter I…
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