Audio for the Right Minded Listener
While doing some research for our November issue, I found myself clicking around the Bel Canto site, and guess what I discovered:
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A Good Girl
Associate publisher, Keith Pray leads a parade of Primedia staffers from the office, down the hall, through the revolving doors, onto Madison Avenue, and into Mulligan's Irish Pub. On his way, he sings out:
So You Want to Be a Writer?
It's not all riches and gorgeous readers, you know.
Guitar Face
When it comes to guitar solos, apparently it <I>is</I> all in the way you hold your lips.
Customers From Hell
Bookmine book store has posted a list of stupid customer queries that sounds strangely familiar. When I used to work at Tower Classical, I received variations on these, ranging from "Do you have Taco Belle's Canon—with real cannon?" to "Do you have any records Mozart recorded before he died?"
Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase
Joan C. Gratz's seven minute animated, um, trip through art—from <I>La Gioconda</I> to Chuck Close. It's 2D claymation from 1992, but it was new to me.
"A Penny More," Restless, The Skydiggers
<blockquote><i>I put this one in so you could hear some of the Cash Brothers in action. It came up in the comments to an earlier blog entry, and was a big reason for wanting to send you this disc. Note: the pop in the beginning is on the CD; maybe something in the master.</i></blockquote>
Eric Asimov Has a Blog
I tend not to link to the <I>NYT</I> because I think their paid-portal policy on their name pundits is dumb—essentially removing them from the public discourse. Then again, considering what many of those "names" write, they may have done the public a favor there.
The Getaway
Who says bikes aren't the perfect urban vehicle? Not this suspect!
Dragonflies and Crayfish, Oh My!
Dragonflies migrate. Who knew?