Touchdowns and Doctor Atomic

As I am writing this, it is the Monday morning after Superbowl Sunday here in America.  I had an odd experience on Saturday, the day before the big game.  I was at the market in the afternoon, and as I walked up to the butcher counter I recognized I had stepped into a "man-zone".  Men... Continue Reading →

To Thine Own Self Be True

“I don’t know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.” Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why In my last post entitled “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf”, I proposed a solution to the... Continue Reading →

The Bard in Aria

I used to think YouTube was just for funny cat videos and recordings of babies doing things their parents thought were cute.  I must fully repent my previous ideas.  I have made a few finds of musical treasures on the internet in the last year, but none so great as my find of a production... Continue Reading →

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