Valerie leaned back, drew on her cigarette, and exhaled, "I have a hunch that the key to this case is to study the history of cartoon music."

Honey looked at her. "Huh?"

"Remember the golden age of animation? The Thirties and Forties? Every cartoon had music by a studio orchestra, a music department. They had staff composers-who wrote out music ( Read more... )

"What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding ( Read more... )

On our trip to Cleveland this week, we stayed in the guesthouse at Ursuline College, a women's college which is run by an order of nuns. The college president, whose home it was, or someone has left lots of feminist books there (along with feminist Pagan CDs like Circle of Women). There are rumors that the Ursuline order was founded in Renaissance ( Read more... )