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Tag Archives: media
We’ll Meet Again
“While we have faced challenges before, this one is different. This time, we join with all nations, across the globe, in a common endeavor — using the great advances of science, and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will … Continue reading
“The Night Before Christmas: The Musical”
A few weeks ago I shared my admiration of Alma Deutscher, a German-English musical prodigy who’s been writing operas since she was in elementary school. I recently encountered this video of her singing with her little sister, ‘reciting’ the classic … Continue reading
A Decade in Music
Marian recently posted a fascinating survey regarding the music we’ve listened to in the last ten years. Considering how much I listen to music — constantly, unless I’m at work, sleeping, or reading — it was a tough exercise to … Continue reading
White Cliffs of ‘Bama
For a while now I’ve wanted to visit the White Cliffs of Epes, Alabama, which were created around the same time as the far more famous White Cliffs of Dover. Today was a beautiful autumn day that begged for some … Continue reading
Armistice Day – Never Forget
As well as it is to honor veterans, let us never forget the original meaning of this date, November 11th. 101 years ago the guns fell silent in Europe, and the great horror of the First World War ended. Twenty … Continue reading
Um….
So….I’m sampling different translations of The Brothers Karamazov in preparation for December’s classics reading, and apparently it’s a wacky comedy! This cover appears as the Kindle edition for the Peavers/Volohonsky translation, which is the one I’m most leaning towards. … Continue reading
The Ballad of Tom Joad
Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen; There he got his parole. After four long years on a man killing charge, Tom Joad come a-walkin’ down the road, poor boy, Tom Joad come a-walkin’ down the road. Tom … Continue reading
The News
The News: A User’s Manual© 2014 Alain de Botton272 pages The news more than any other modern institution has taken the role of shaping a nation’s collective consciousness, but what shape does that leave us in? Alain de Botton’s The … Continue reading
The Disappearance of Childhood
The Disappearance of Childhood©1982 Neil Postman177 pages Television is killing your children — conceptually. In 1985, Neil Postman penned Amusing Ourselves to Death, in which he, building off of the lesson in Technopoly that technology changes our culture without our knowledge, … Continue reading
Hamlet’s Blackberry
Hamlet’s Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age© 2011 William Powers288 pages Getting online used to require sitting in front of a computer terminal and waiting for it to dial in, oh so slowly. It was a choice … Continue reading
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