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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Culture on Mar 8th, 2010
The Wife, and the Sister-in-Law, and I went to see the Marinsky Opera’s version of Prokofiev’s operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace yesterday at the government-run Kennedy Center yesterday.
It was very good. The staging was marvelous, the music was wonderful (I like Prokofiev, evidently), and it was cool to hear so much Russian — [...]
Posted in Music on Feb 28th, 2010
On Communion Sundays we at our church seem to frequently sing “Put Peace Into Each Other’s Hands.”
The melody/arrangement is gorgeous, but the lyrics are hysterical.
For instance, in the third verse, everyone sings dramatically:
Look people warmly in the eye
Really?
“Look people warmly in the eye?”
Okay . . . .
____
But the last verse is the kicker. Here’s how [...]
Posted in Culture, Linguistics (Culture) on Feb 25th, 2010
And then, out of the blue, Tillman started talking about colors.
I’ve been grading tests and papers now for two weeks straight. And when that happens, the need to write eventually builds up to the point where I have to take a break and write something.
So, I was thinking about how weird it is that translation [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Theory (Politics) on Feb 18th, 2010
So, to prove that I hadn’t just made up the Bizarre Ontology — but rather that it was something that people actually believe — I used the “frontispiece” from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan.
Now, I would like to use Hobbes’ main philosophical rival, John Locke.
Locke writes (Second Treatise, Section 145):
For though in a commonwealth the members of [...]
You may know that I periodically get on Drudge’s case for the fact that the adverts on his site often don’t display correctly (which leads me to wonder why companies pay him to advertise on his site).
Today, I found the following juxtaposition of headlines ironic:
The links are to the following stories: Alabama shooting / Palin [...]
Canada = United States + Nice
This Superbowl commercial wasn’t funny.
It was scary.
When it’s coming, and you know it’s coming, it’s not funny. It’s frightening.
(It would be like making a campy zombie movie in Hollywood while real live [I mean, undead] zombies were invading America via the East Coast, and had just overrun New York City or something.)
[UPDATE (02/08/10, 12:42pm): Note [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics (Philosophy), Events (Politics), Theory (Politics) on Feb 4th, 2010
(Don’t you think?)
You may recall my recent discussions of the “Bizarre Ontology” that makes individuals responsible for things other people in their “group” do — even when they disagree with what those other people are doing — because it treats groups as the primary reality of which individuals are mere appendages or manifestations.
You also may [...]
Your shoes, if at all possible, should not announce your arrival ahead of time.
Besides, if your shoes are making that much noise, there’s probably something wrong.
For instance, if your shoes are going “click, click, click” or “clop, clop, clop,” it’s probably because they have hard heels, and you’re walking on a hard floor. This can’t [...]
Posted in Web Ads on Jan 23rd, 2010
You may recall my ongoing fascination with how drudgerport.com manages to make any money, when its adds so often display in hilariously-incorrect ways.
It’s like when a person on the radio is reading a “this report is brought to you by” advertisement, and messes it up. Does the radio station have to return the money of [...]
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