An aspirational list (of future posts?) of things that have swirled through my mind lately, in an effort to put them into words and perhaps spur them into a greater potential for realization:

• I'm interested in reading a biography of Ezra Pound. A good one, that talks about the work and delves into who he was. It should be an interesting biography, ( Read more... )

I'll have to come back to this later, but for now, links:

This article on Carl Schurz, titled "Land Pirate," in the NYT's Disunion series is fascinating, for its portrait of a famous German-American and confidant of Lincoln during the Civil War. (The "I run and steal" from the subject title comes from a funny pun on "Iron and Steel" from this ( Read more... )

Today, I learned that Budweiser has a monopoly on beer sales at the stadiums of the World Cup. Only, the Germans don't like Budweiser much (if you click the link, click "gallery"). Which I understand. I'm not a big fan of Budweiser, either. But my brother, pkhentz, lives less than a mile away from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis. We're descended ( Read more... )

The following are lyrics to Friedrich Schiller's poem "An der Freude," best known for the musical setting Ludwig van Beethoven gave to it in his Ninth Symphony. L. and the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra performed Beethoven's Ninth on Saturday. I think, in this case, the community orchestra rose to the occasion: I liked the PVSO's version better ( Read more... )