Home Notes
Carole is still in Hungary living it up in the high style college arts administrators have come to expect in this decedent, liberal society of ours. I’m home with the dogs & though our dog-guest Nugget went back home today, that still leaves four. Truth is, the dogs are bad for my intellectual life — [...]
Note to the ACLU
If your telephone fundraiser is so rude she makes even a paid-up member like me hang up on her, you might want to rethink that contract with Telefund, Inc. And what the hell are you doing calling me up two weeks after I sent you fifty bucks, asking for more money? I was interrupted by [...]
Argument & the Liberal Arts
In looking for something else a few days ago, I came across this discussion by Joseph Kugelmass (at the wittily named Kugelmass Episodes weblog) & thought I’d make note of it here. It’s a response to some passages in Michael Bérubé’s What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? that honors Bérubé while disagreeing with him. I [...]
Cold
At dawn it was -25° though as the sun came up it began to warm slightly. The dogs made quick runs out back, came in & ate their breakfasts & are now sleeping. The high today will be around 0°. I’m not going anywhere except for a quick trip to the post office. School begins [...]
Travel & Ambition
Carole left for ten days in Budapest today, driving through a snowstorm for three hours to get to the Montreal airport for her Swiss Air flight. We kept in touch by cell phone, with me acting as her navigator a couple of times by pulling up Google Maps & making sure she was on the [...]
Bach Cello Suites (I)
Note: Jonathan Mayhew is blogging the Bach Suites for Solo Cello & I thought I’d play along. He is listening to Yo Yo Ma, I’m listening to Rostropovich. I intend to keep things relatively gnomic — I’m a poet not a music critic — & I’m also going to keep all my responses in this [...]
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