https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kx9eD-5ML._SS280.jpg I heard a nice version of "Four in One" on the radio this morning. SoundHound informed me it was from this recording. I downloaded the over 8-minute track from Amazon for $0.89. All good, except I can't find the p...

I just had a paper called "Tonality, Musical Form and Aesthetic Value" accepted for publication in a future number of Perspectives of New Music. I have an abstract of it here: https://www.academia.edu/18146197/Tonality_Musical_Form_and_Aesthetic_Value It's long, theoretical, and maybe...

I grew up as a Tigers fan, since when I was a kid in Syracuse, the Chiefs were Detroit's triple A team. And can tell you that nobody made me cry as often as Yogi Berra. What a clutch hitter he was. It's like you COULD NOT GET THAT GUY OUT in the ninth if it mattered. FWIW, Al Kaline, one of...

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Regarding House of Card s, .................................edit OTOH, I'm enjoying Better Call Saul" Saul's development of Mike's character was beautiful in this weeks episode. I haven't seen that one yet, but it will be a relief not to have to see Odenkirk in every single scene. That...

Regarding House of Card s, I'm embarrassed to say we bailed after the first couple of episodes of the second season. The two characters we found most interesting had been killed off and the plots were getting too complicated for us boahdaline retahds. OTOH, I'm enjoying Better Call Saul&quo...

After being disappointed with the first two episodes of "Kimmy Schmidt" (and complaining both about how derivative it is of Mork and Mindy, Hazel, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres , etc. and how two of the main characters are just reprising their roles from the last series they we...

I don't agree with you: I think they've been playing to the level of their fairly pedestrian competition and also have improved as the year has gone on. But we'll see: if they DO lose in the SEC tournament, which of course is possible, they'll still be a 1-seed and I'll still wa...

I hope either Wisconsin, Virginia or Duke gets a shot at Kentucky before this thing is over. (I finally saw the Zags last night and don't think they'd be much competition). We really won't know how good Kentucky is if they get through this entire season without playing anybody. ...

It's karma, obviously. The day after I write the post above, the following article appears on the front page of the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/01/state-layoffs-loom-early-retirement-plan-falls-short-official-says/9My4pQCjphdD3WZWJOhx0H/story.html So, the state is lik...

I'm planning to quit my bureaucrat gig on April Fool's day, 2017, the day our last tuition check is due for our oldest daughter. My original plan was to move my bed next to the fridge so I could lie down all day and just have to reach up to get some pasta while I watch tv. You know, I might...

That's a great question, Ron. I like a lot of counterpoint, myself--or to put it less stodgily, a lot of business. So an alto or soprano and tenor are good. I want percussion, but it need not always be restricted to traps--nice having mallet instruments around too. Keyboards are nice but the da...

I heard today that the guy used a Winchester rifle--sounds like something that an antique collector might have. I guess really nasty weaponry isn't so easily available in Canada. Here it would have been an AK-47 probably--or maybe a pressure cooker. Which reminds me. Who'd have the guts to ...