All Your Table Belong to Us
Huckleberry, on the other hand, just brazens it out. What table? Oh, the one beneath me? Are you sure that counts? Well, I was tired of sitting here anyway.
Wes Phillips
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Not a Table
Bagheera, like all cats, is a lawyer. It's not a table, it's a counter, in the sun—in the cattery.
Landfall of the Tub Toys
Those rubber">http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070428/bob9.asp">rubber duckies oceanographers have been tracking since 1992 are about to make landfall in the UK. Not the first time Old Blighty has been menaced by an armada.
The Sound of Silence
"The same acoustic silence, embedded in two different excerpts, can be perceived dramatically differently," writes Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis in an article in the June issue of Music Perception.
More Pepper?
Living In Stereo argues that, far from being the best Beatles album SPLHCB was the worst . . . least best . . . um, not greatest non-soundtrack album.
The Cavern Club at 50
"A stinking, rat-infested cesspit that would never be tolerated now." And your point is . . . ?
Gaiman on Wells
Neil Gaiman argues that the science fiction novels of H.G. Wells, while fine, pale compared to his short stories. Gaiman says that the SF stories survive, while "many of the mainstream novels he considered more important and significant are gone and, for the most part, forgotten, perhaps because the novels were very much of their time."
Maupin's Mash Note to San Francisco
I loved the first six volumes of Tales of the City, although the recently published Michael Tolliver Lives sounds pretty dire. Still, few writers have ever written more lovingly about the city by the bay.
No Answers, Only Questions
Rilke, Durer, and the rise of science.
12 Tones, No Waiting?
Does the Western 12-tone scale represent every tone possibility? Oh, grasshopper, you have so much to learn.