Never in my life have I been so happy to greet a grey, rainy, drizzly day. It's wonderful.

Oh hey, I am alive! Just moving again, which means the past days have involved entirely too much installation of bookshelves, despair at the number of books, pride at the number of books ( Read more... )

Alex Ross on why it's worth spending the money on a Ring, even in this economy.I had the eminent pleasure of being the TA for a class on the Ring, back a few years ago. It was a mixture of Music undergrads and non-music majors, but even the music majors didn't know their Wagner, or at least no more than having parsed a few Tristan chord analyses ( Read more... )

NYT preview of the Met's new RingForget anything Bayreuth has done in the past decade (or more), this is the event all Wagnerians have been waiting for, and it's massively important. Although in academia (or at least among people who study the staging of opera) you won't find many of them left, there are still a lot of traditionalists out there ( Read more... )

Posting again from the abyss of mostly being too busy to post, it's holiday card time! If I have your address, you'll probably get something, but please post here anyways if you want one. It helps me make Lists. I like to send mail, and I will mail international. All comments screened, natch.

In honor of the entirely too long I spent in the rare books library this morning and the two postcards of it I snagged on my way out, first two people who want a postcard get a postcard! Comments screened, natch.

ETA: All postcards are currently claimed but I can totally steal more...

So I'm going on a crazy vacation in under a week. Woah. I need to start packing.

Who wants a postcard??? Leave your address here, all comments screened, yadda yadda yadda.

:)

Last call for "I really want a Christmas card..."

if you have a post and I have not responded, poke me.

if you've put up with me for a while already, you know the drill:

who wants a non-religious holiday card? :D :D

If I already have your address somewhere, odds are you'll get one even if you don't let me know here, because I roll like that. But if you moved and want to remind me and all of that, please leave a comment.

As always, comments are

I think this is one of the hardest posts I have ever felt the need to write: it's in large part for me, but a message I got last night noted that joy is doubled, sorrow halved in the act of being shared, and that struck me as so right in this case.

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