I’m listening to Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling singing their hearts out as Aïda and Radames on the Sunday Opera Matinee this afternoon, and this poem popped into my head as suddenly apropos. For the Twentieth Century Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousandtechnologies of ecstasy boundlessness, the world that at a drop of […]
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My Free Will Astrology horoscope has this to say this week: Using your common sense, you might assume you could swim faster through water than through syrup. But research published by Professor Edward Cussler has shown that’s not true. In his paper "Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup?", he proved that the breaststroke […]
Farmers’ market: visited.Flowers, tomatoes, and greens: acquired.Plastic covers for moving my mattress and box spring: found.Short-sleeved lacy sweater to wear to friend’s wedding in July: acquired (on sale, yay). Laundry: done and put away.Intractable pile of paper clutter: tackled, wrestled into submission, sorted into "file" and "throw out," eliminated.Bathtub: cleaned. (Bath: taken.)Lower half of refrigerator: […]
Happy Bloomsday! This time next year I want to go to the Joyce readings at the Rosenbach Museum. Or, at the very least, the ceremonial pre-Bloomsday pub crawl.
As you may have surmised from the hypothetical location question I posted recently, I’m moving. And now that plans for the move are officially underway, I’ll spill the beans. I’ve decided to go for my master’s in library and information science, and I’ll be starting as a new MLIS student at Drexel University in the […]
Oh my stars. Just look at this: The superb mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson makes one of her very rare operatic appearances as Orpheus in Gluck’s early masterpiece. Lisa Milne is Euridice, whom Orpheus rescues from the underworld, and Heidi Grant Murphy sings Amor, the spirit of Love. The virtuoso Mark Morris directs and choreographs, and […]
Question for you, dear readers. Hypothetically, if you had to choose between relocating to a largish city where you spent some of your earliest years, with which you still feel somewhat familiar, and which is near to a variety of family and friends; or relocating to a smaller city you don’t know at all, in […]
The things you find on del.icio.us — today I came across a link to a company that makes yurts, which you can apparently outfit with central heating, plumbing, interior walls and everything. Fantasizing about portable housing, I looked up an old link to a designer of hanging spherical treehouses (originally spotted at scribblingwoman‘s blog); other […]
I’m back from a trip to DC with my friend R. to see the National Opera’s production of La Clemenza di Tito this past Saturday night. There’s a pretty thorough review of this production over at ionarts, with which I mostly agree. I thought Marina Domashenko, as Sesto, and Cristina Nassif (that night’s Vitellia) were […]
A group that performs opera in bars. Neat! Why am I not living in Canada so I can hear them? (Hat tip to wolfangel, who did get to hear them.)