I’m not very piano-aware, but this one is a whole education. VERY tight group, via Daniel:
Monthly Archives: March 2008
links for 2008-03-11
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more, more, more!
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from WorldChanging
Sylvie Guillem
what can one possibly say?
oh hell, this too:
Genetics of the hefted eyebrow
links for 2008-03-08
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“…documenting the historical activities of the Spanish national scientific research institution…” and a harbinger, to be sure
links for 2008-03-06
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“…with more and more microformats, I bet this funtion will definitely improve the way we organize information…”
Supercharged dangdut
Thought you knew about Indonesia, didja Bunky? Try THIS:
Rushdie turns a phrase or two
Last week’s New Yorker had a Salman Rushdie story with numerous succulent bits. The bit that especially caught my eye:
Bhakti Ram Jain proudly held the rank of Imperial Flatterer First Class, and was a master of the ornate, old-school style known as cumulative fawning. Only a man with an excellent memory for the baroque formulations of excessive encomiums could fawn cumulatively, on account of the repetitions required and the necessary precision of the sequencing. Bhakti Ram Jain’s memory was unerring. He could fawn for hours.
The phrase “excessive encomiums” has a stylistic sonority (some might find it objectionably orotund), and I got to wondering about its other contexts. A Google search turns up eight instances besides Rushdie’s use, and Yahoo finds a couple of others (one in a rock music review, the other in a letter of Benjamin Franklin, Dec 21 1789…)
Haiku for the day
Florida guest
OMG WTF?
spring snowstorm
links for 2008-03-03
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Fairhaven MA High School, class of 1959
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from VOA, collecting obscure tape and vinyl