Album: Manteca, Monday Night at the Mensa Disco “We are driven by an intense desire to see the thrill in our audience’s eyes. With nine players on stage when we play an ensemble figure together there is a power and this kind of joyous impact surrounded by the silence between the notes that exhilarates us… Read more »
Film: Money and Life Director: Katie Teague Genre: Documentary “Planet Finance is now getting bigger than Planet Earth.” Rebecca Adamson, Indigenous Economics Advocate, quoted in Money & Life “I tell the story of a more beautiful world. To me That’s a story of the money but more broadly a story of the people. What’s happening… Read more »
Bad habits. We all have them, and most of us find them nearly impossible to break. Is it because we’re lazy, or lack willpower, or have some other character fault we could overcome if only we tried a little harder? The bad news is that our brain’s habit-making centre tends to shut itself off from… Read more »
?Let’s start at the very beginning,? Julie Andrews warbles in The Sound of Music, telling the von Trapp children that It’s ?a very good place to start.? And in the academic writing world, whether You’re putting together your first university paper or creating your doctoral thesis, the beginning is always, always a very good place… Read more »
Are you as scandalized by the cover price of magazines as I am? Oh, intellectually, I get it. Printing and postage costs are sky-high when you compare them to putting out digital editions of the same product. Subscriber numbers are probably down. But surely ad revenue has kept pace? Whatever. The business case doesn’t really… Read more »
Film: Much Ado About Nothing Director: Josh Whedon Genre: Comedy Lovers, Liars, and Tongue-Lashings “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.” ~said by Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing At times this film reminds me of the Seinfeld episode in which, after some carefully laid… Read more »
Having our grandson Grady come to the farm for sleepovers is always a treat. At age four he is increasingly independent so I am able to get a few things done besides staring lovingly at him. He’s also a funny, inquisitive, articulate little kid. Not to put too fine a point on it, but let’s… Read more »
Have you ever noticed that even though we think of desirable stuff as being cool, the image that marketers use to sell everything from jeans to smart phones is heat? The latest fashions are hot. Internet speeds are blazingly fast. That shiny new car will burn up the road. Turns out there might be a… Read more »
Film: Computer Chess Director: Andrew Bujalski Genre: Mockumentary/Art House An Eerie Order Behind the Chaos “It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order? and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.” ~Douglas R. Hofstadter “Just take something mediocre and turbocharge it.”… Read more »
