Interesting Links for 02-07-2015

[andrewducker]

• The real city that inspired the second season of True Detective
  • (tags: TV cities California usa )
• What Erotica Writers Thought Of The #AskELJames Twitter Q&A
  • (tags: Twitter erotica )
• If you're going to work in SEO there here's a way to make fun (and almost art)
  • (tags: web art writing viasupergee )
• Boardgames - an African-American scholar writes
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Comments

[agoodwinsmith]

I want to know what happened to the snail next. I do not have high expectations of a happy ending.

[cartesiandaemon]

Especially because it was nearly 200 years ago. I sort of hope a _live_ specimen from egypt was sufficiently interesting they found a terrarium for it somewhere. But maybe they just boiled it clean after all.

[don_fitch]

When I first got into American Plains Indian music about 60 years ago, it was obvious that the Singers who gathered at the Drum first co-ordinated their heavy/light beat with the Head Singer's systolic/diastolic heart-beat (which was pretty much the same as that of the dancers & spectators). Then, in the course of their singing, they speeded it up or slowed it down, as the Songs dictated, and the rest of us adjusted our heartbeat accordingly. Greek folk-dancing, though the beat is more complex, has a similar quality. I really & seriously regret having become so deaf that I can't hear the drum/beats. And, I suppose, the tranquilizing effect Baroque music had on me came mostly from the established Continuo that doesn't change speed/pace significantly