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Midweek Music Break: “Michael Meets Mozart”
Longtime visitors to RAMH know (as I have said) what I don’t know about music could fit, barely, into a large stadium. (A roofless one, so that the heap of facts and sensibilities inside can actually rise higher than the walls.) So for me to claim that some musical performance awed me — well, that [...]
Real-Life Dialogue: Return of the Bathroom Talker
It’s been a long time since I last posted about this guy. Not that I’ve had no further interaction with him, no. It’s just that all further interaction with him has been of the same unvarying sort. Nothing new to report. And I’ve also gotten cleverer about avoiding him. But this latest example just pushed [...]
What Did the Dormouse Say?
[Image: T-shirt available from the Skreened store. Of all the images of this moment which I found online, the original Tenniel still seemed best. Disclaimer: I have no interest (vested or, ha, shirted) in the store other than this photo of this T-shirt.] From whiskey river: Brotherhood Homage to Octavius Ptolemy I am a man: [...]
Pottermore
From The Atlantic: In a much-anticipated press event this morning, J.K. Rowling announced the launch of Pottermore, a new website meant to bring all-things-Harry Potter to the Web. It was revealed in a leaked memo yesterday that a central focus of the site would be an online gaming experience developed by the company Adam & [...]
Midweek Music Break: “One Shoe Blues” (Sandra Boynton via B.B. King)
[Image: B.B. King and Boynton sock puppet] I had occasion recently to be searching around for an image from the 1970s, the cover of possibly the biggest-selling greeting card in the planet’s (if not the universe’s) history. It was a cartoon, at the top of which was depicted a single hippopotamus, a small avian creature, [...]
The Writers’ Word-Time Equivalency Scale
Let’s suppose you are a writer, and value your time spent writing, and measure your success in a given writing session in terms of words written. So far so good. This describes about ninety percent of the writers I know. Let’s take it to another level. Suppose you are behind — or perceive yourself to [...]
Higher Mathematics (Department of Personal Chronology)
Too many years ago now to count, I once calculated my personal “magic number.” It was pretty stupid: all I did was gather my birthdate, my phone number, my address, my ZIP code, my Social Security Number — any numbers I could think of which applied to me — and added up all their digits. [...]
The Shape of What You Live
[Image: "Angular Momentum," from xkcd.com. The tooltip/"hover title" at the original page says: "With reasonable assumptions about latitude and body shape, how much time might she gain them? Note: whatever the answer, sunrise always comes too soon. (Also, is it worth it if she throws up?)"] From whiskey river: Remembering And you wait. You wait [...]
Midweek Music Break: Pat Metheny, “Cherish”
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny has recently released a new album — What’s It All About. From the Nonesuch Records site: After nearly 40 recordings under his own name, this is the first Pat Metheny album where there is not a single Metheny composition represented. This is a personal view of ten classic songs, some very [...]
The Shock of What You Already Know
For one reason or another, while sort of spiraling down the drain toward the end of this draft of Seems to Fit, I’ve been thinking some about Merry-Go-Round. Don’t fret if you don’t recognize the title Merry-Go-Round. This was the novel I wrote back in 2007-08, and apparently last mentioned here at RAMH in a [...]
