I thought I was losing my mind, but in fact that faint voice I heard while listening to Glenn Gould's "Goldberg Variations" is the pianist himself, displaying one of his "eccentricities."

I'm really loving this double album by Stars of the Lid that I downloaded from eMusic a week ago. I guess people call this drone music now, it used to be called ambient, back when Eno was making it, or minimalism if by Glass or Reich, but it's all about tonality and space. It's so spare and elegant, it makes it hard to listen to anything else ( Read more... )

Who exactly, are the judicial activists on the Supreme Court? Perhaps its Ailto, Robert, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy, who won't let school districts mind their own business in an attempt to achieve a modicum of diversity. The segregationist racists are now just a little more subtle than they were 50 years ago ( Read more... )

My former drinking buddy back from my law school days is going to meet up with us in Berlin. We're planning to travel around a bit while Saltbox is in her conference ( Read more... )

I ran some pretty quick intervals last night after work: 2 x 5 mins and 2 x 3 mins. I'd estimate that I was around 6 mins per mile or maybe a little faster ( Read more... )

Why didn't anyone ever tell me this book existed? I just stumbled onto it via Amazon, and can't wait for it to arrive. From the description, it sounds like it combines my interests in philosophy, class identity, politics, and history. It was exactly what I've been looking for, without even knowing it.

I ran about 7.5 miles last night, and listened to my iPod on shuffle play ( Read more... )

I was reading Thucydides, "The Peloponnesian War," and came across a striking passage. At this point, the Athenians have the advantage over the Spartans, by virtue of their victory at Pylos and encirclement of Spartan helots stationed on Sphacteria. The Spartans plea for peace, suggesting that at this point in the war they can each leave with ( Read more... )

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