Back to Shahrazad I About a week after the phone call, or the dream, a fax arrived from the Bank of the Republic of Colombia: we urgently need the title of your lecture. So now I phoned. It seemed I was to cancel my regular classes for a week to participate in a symposium at … More Shahrazad II
I can compose calmly and directly now instead of having my brain expand and pulsate in asymmetrical ways. And composition is craftsmanlike and pleasant. As it gets sharper, I can feel the synapses click and the blood run through the capillaries in my temples. I have more wind in my chest, and more space in … More Shahrazad I
This documentary is great, and you can understand much of it without understanding the words. Axé.
Monday was Blogging for Sex Education Day and I did not know, but I know now, and my favorite post on this topic is from Jack’s Non-Blog. It says in part that [s]ex has, for many people, an emotional impact that is rarely discussed logically in any form, and is normally reduced to saccharine conceptions … More Blogging for Sex Education
This is Pacific Ocean Bluegrass, with fiddle player Katie Nakamura channelling Bill Monroe. Go Katie! Also, a piece of news I ought to have posted for Memorial Day, but am posting now for us to read and mourn, is this story of a PTSD-affected veteran, killed at home by a police sharpshooter after receiving a … More Orange Blossom Special
I have very little knowledge of Lacan and cannot comment seriously on him, but observe this: Between man and love, there is woman; between man and woman, there is a world; betwen man and the world, there is a wall. What is at stake in a serious love relationship between a man and a woman … More Jacques Lacan
From the May 30 State of the City address, given at the D-Day Museum: “It was time for a change, a new prescription,” he said. “In spite of some opposition, I stood firm and we swallowed the pill and what we are doing is working. Everyone has noticed the change in our appearance. We look … More Nagin on New Orleans
I I want to hire and I want to hire somebody good, and mine is not the nation’s most attractive university. In our state 29% of children live below the poverty line and another 24% live in low income families. At the salaries we offer, a family of four on one assistant professor salary would … More On Calling References
I have finally cracked the mystery of my paper – released it from the wicked spell that burdened it, perhaps. It has turned into mere work rather than spiritual toil. Therefore we will sing. This is Alphonse Picou (1878-1961) on his famous clarinet part in “High Society,” recorded with the Paul Barbarin band in New … More Alphonse Picou
This is El Greco’s Portrait of a Cardinal. It is at the Metropolitan Museum but the largest collection of El Greco’s work outside Spain is at the National Gallery. The Counter-Reformation raged, and he painted its spirit. The cardinal in question is believed to be Fernando Niño de Guevera (1541-1609), Grand Inquisitor and, from 1601, … More Portrait of a Cardinal
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