Why Is This Cat Laughing?
Because I thought I was the boss of him, that's why.
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With a Hey, and a Ho, and a Hey-Nonny-No
"These syllables might be nonsensical, but they are telling and resonant."
So Perfect and Neat and New
My allergies are, as they say, "killing me." Robert says it's <a href="http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/tenday/10016">t… tree pollen</a>.
Welcome to the CIA Museum
"Housed in the Agency's Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, this unique collection illustrates the history of US intelligence—which effectively began when this country was still 13 separate colonies—by showing some of the artifacts and tools used by men and women serving in various aspects of espionage."
Sky Racers
In the 1920s and '30s, fliers would race their home-built and "suicidally overpowered" single engine aircraft—sometimes in front of 60,000 spectators. The Granville Brothers' Gee Bee Model Z was little more than a massive motor with stubby little wings attached, but it paved the way for the fast fighters the Air Corps put aloft in WWII.
On the Evolution of Style
I've been reading Chet Raymo's <I>Walking Zero</I>, a meditation on the history of science focussed through a walk along the prime meridian in the UK. It's a lovely book, one I tend to linger over, reading a chapter and then mulling over it for a few days. Highly recommended.
O'Neill at Sing-Sing
Eugene O'Neill is currently having a resurgence everywhere from prisons to Broadway (John Atkinson ranks the Old Vic production of <I>Moon For the Misbegotten</I> as one of his most intense theatrical experiences). John Patrick Diggens argues that O'Neill's themes of deceit and desire are particularly timely for 'Muricans today.
About Listening and Forgetting
Please click the External Link to enjoy the latest stop on Michael Lavorgna's Road Tour. Exit 11A leads Michael down the ramp to DeVore Fidelity, where we spend another lovely day at the hard-working Brooklyn Navy Yard and learn more about John DeVore's design philosophy.
Choral Sex
<A HREF="http://nicomuhly.com/news/2007/bliss/">Nico Muhly</A> writes about the joy of singing.
Anonymity and Deindividuation
<I>aka</I> The Lucifer Effect—an excerpt from Philip Zimbardo's new book.