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By gum, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that. I had no idea. That's all there is to it. Whoops, I wrote over my post! It was about...

The ebass player I like most is MISA of Bandmaid. For a pro she has ordinary skill but that doesn't matter to me. I say that the role...

The Beatles certainly popularized fancy multitracking arrangements with all kinds of instruments. Karlheinz Stockhausen started that...

Today I learned that Harvard is putting on a play about 1970s feminism. In the second act everyone is naked...

Daria Zaritskaya covers Pat Benatar. I would not mess with her.

Can't beat Daria Zaritskaya. It's almost scary.

Huh, early Jon Anderson is one of the very few lyricists that I like. I go for abstraction. Nowadays his stuff is too literal for me...

The North-South thing is because of property lines. Property tends to be square. Let's say square miles. As one goes north in the...

It's because the Earth is a sphere. An truly East-West road would be a portion of a circle, not a straight line. Roads are made as...

Today I learned that James Joyce married Nora Barnacle.

To drag myself back on topic, another thing I've seen in real life but don't have good photos of: This is on the north coast of Arran...

In these days of high tuition, students are a valuable asset. Teddy Kennedy was expelled from Harvard for cheating on an exam. Henry...

Grammar is social currency. If universities aim to produce productive citizens, grammar may seem secondary to technical skills. But if...

@Hornbein: they give us the syllabus, and the criterion for passing, and then they tell us we cannot fail the number of students who...

I still have the one I bought off the rack in 1978 for $200. It still looks new, though perhaps not stylish. I don't keep track of...