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Amazon has posted this list. I would expect that the number one pick would be a great surprise to most people; it was to me. I do think it’s a great album, but greatest? Well, not really. More than that, I was beginning to mutter with outrage that only two albums by John Coltrane are…
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Luther Allison, ”Watching You,“ also known as ”Cherry Red Wine“: If you don’t stop drinking that bad wine, baby, even the grass that grows on your grave will be cherry red. I’m not sending a message to anyone, I just like the song. In fact it’s a good drinking song. It’s a little over ten…
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From “Why I Fired My Broker”, a piece in the May Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, in which he tries to figure out what the hell happened to his investments a few months ago: It turns out that my crucial mistake was believing that the brokers and wealth managers and cable-television oracles who make up the…
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Behold: BaR2D2, the robot bartender. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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As he tells the story, in 1971 composer Gavin Bryars was fooling around with a tape loop of an old tramp singing a fragment of a hymn, “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.” When I copied the loop onto the continuous reel in Leicester, I left the door of the recording studio open (it opened…
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Current temperature at my house: 83F / 28C. It’s about 3:15 in the afternoon. I know you folks in northern realms are just now getting well into spring, but in effect our spring is over, and summer has begun. We’re beginning now to have the weather that the northern part of the USA will have…
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Meaning: from Shakespeare’s poetry and Francesca Murphy’s deep and rich theological work to…Dr. Who. I just thought I ought to let everybody know that IF you’re a fan of the later incarnations of the show—for instance, the Tom Baker period—and IF you have a Netflix subscription, and IF you notice there the three disk set…
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Wanting to post a bit of Shakespeare for the occasion, I thought of these two passages. From King Lear, bitterest grief: KING LEAR: A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all! I might have saved her; now she’s gone for ever! Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is’t thou say’st? Her voice was ever soft,…
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As regular readers know, the author of this book is a theology professor at the University of Aberdeen, and a frequent contributor to conversations here. This is a published version of her doctoral dissertation, and that partly accounts for the fact that I didn’t understand a great deal of it. Not only didn’t, but couldn’t:…
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Students at St. John’s College in Annapolis are known as “Johnnies.” St John’s is a small liberal arts school where the curriculum is the great books of (mostly) Western civilization—a non-Catholic Thomas Aquinas College, you might say. One of my children went there. It’s literally next door to the Naval Academy, and every year the…
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