I am in here.
Just went to iTunes and am downloading a pile of Peter, Paul and Mary, among other things. “Day is Done” is going thru the earphones as I type. When I was in college, at Vanderbilt, I spent those 4 years also being a DJ at WRVU, Nashville. I got early, sort-of early morning shifts. I’d … Continue reading day is done
Okay, I’m a biblical scholar. Sort of. A beginning one, at least. Hey, I’ve read over 80% of the so-called Old Testament — how many other people can say that? Especially the high and mighty ones who always try to make a holier-than-thou point of being better-than-me? Yeah, thought not. What’s gotten me cranky on … Continue reading reading very old books
Following a rather short adolescence, I became an ordinary young man, tolerable but no more. At that moment in my life I began to think and to write music. Oh yes. Wretched idea!… very wretched idea! It certainly was, for I lost no time in developing an unpleasant (original) originality, irrelevant, anti-French, unnatural, etc… Then … Continue reading qotd
You know that huge, multinational corporations have too much control in our society when they can control independend scholarly pursuits because they fantasize that these pursuits reflect a bit poorly on the corporations themselves. Viz: Merriam-Webster explains disappearing McJob“Merriam-Webster is revising a web page for its Collegiate Dictionary after a McDonalds executive complained about the … Continue reading corporate language control
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