Wherein I imitate and flatter

pace Ken’s “Best Line of the Day, so far” and Eric Zorn’s “Fine Lines“
Speaking of “Memorial Stadiums” and their relationship to the First World War:
That is a concept easy to forget in a time when stadium names change with the expiration of a business deal. It used to be that they named a stadium to [...]

Wherein I break in my first meme

Yow, this is going to be tough. As important as books have been in my life, even to the extent of managing two different bookstores and two stints in graduate school, my life hasn’t been a bookish life. Tomes that I tended to read as a youngster tended to the non-fiction side of things, trivia [...]

Préparez, et répétez

We’re leaving for our annual Wisconsin sojourn at the end of this week, and so I’m in the midst of picking out the three or four books that I’m going to throw in the backpack to while away the hours while I’m not completing a fresh book of NYT Crossword Puzzles. A book that I’ve [...]

Six random questions

Thanks to Harriet, I have something to blog about on this Tuesday morning.
1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
Let’s see, end of May, 1998. Working at the Bloomington, IN Barnes & Noble. I think I was the Music Department Manager by this point, and I may have just finished doing inventory. For those of [...]

Take Two

Wait, I’m going to do a second one of these, because I obviously didn’t get it the first time.

I love eating artichokes, even though I haven’t had one in years.
While flipping channels, I am constitutionally unable to flip past the last 10 minutes of the original “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”.
Growing up, I liked [...]

Talking of Michelangelo

Piggybacking on Jeanne’s and Lemming’s posts about National Pottery Poetry Month, I must add my favorite poem that I first heard in the last year or so. I heard Stephen Breyer say it on C-SPAN (In fact, I blogged about it before) and I was just enchanted. It is by the Canadian poet Tom Wayman, [...]

Album cover/lyrics meme

The meme that all the cool Musikwissenschafters are doing. Via Dial M for Musicology and musikwissenbloggenschaft, with local results from Alison. How funny is it that I got the name of a prominent musicologist as my band name? I have no idea how this CD will sound, though I hope it would be nerd rock, or maybe some [...]