The Mysteries of Minimalism

Minimalist Music.  Repetitive New-Age Crap. Originally, that was going to be the whole post. Then I thought I could elaborate with something like this: Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap. Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive New-Age Crap.  Repetitive... Continue Reading →

The Two Seasons: Winter and Road Construction

Where I come from, there are really just two seasons, Winter and Road Construction.  The late winter and early spring bring potholes in the road.  Big, mean, tire-killing potholes on every road you drive.  “Holes” doesn’t even begin to describe these Volkswagen eating monsters.  They are craters.  Canyons really, deep enough to have archeologists carbon... Continue Reading →

Crimea River

Dmitri Shostakovich is a Russian composer whose musical career is entangled with the history of Soviet Russia.  He lived from 1906 to 1975, and in his lifetime saw the Bolshevik revolution overthrow tsarist rule, the Russian civil war, and the totalitarian Soviet State.  He saw the regimes of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.... Continue Reading →

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