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Monthly Archives: April 2007
At $0.49 per pound …
… I found it difficult to say no to a pound and a half of bulk milk chocolate on sale at Woodman’s. I think I paid about $0.78 for it. A big block. I planned and still plan on baking … Continue reading
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Long and involved and chaotic rehearsal.
The Re-Hör-Saal … After Queen? Queensryche.
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I am a strange loop …
Over the years I’ve lost a lot if not most of my respect for Salon.com. Camille Paglia was one reason, Horowitz another, and then annoying site redesigns, and various types of advertising and membership models and other shit. And then … Continue reading
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So, 30+ dead a Va. Tech.
I taught in a relatively quiet classroom by comparison; my class of 15 (14 today) would have been small-pickins for a would-be-gunman.
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41.6 minutes of Pulp
That’s the end of “P.” The first Pulp tune I have is “Common People,” which I know from the less breathy, less English William Shatner version, which I in a way prefer for its theatrical over-the-top nature.
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A Sunny Saturday
Before I forget, the music of Abdel Hamid Tnnari — the Solos and Melodies album — is pretty stuff.
Friday in brief
1) “Taught” — which meant listening to a sub-par presentation on the last World Cup. I showed some World Cup photos at the end. I also played some German pop music to supplement another sub-par presentation on Wednesday.
Hauntings
It’s been well over two years (Dec. 29, 2004) since Susan Sontag died, but in some reading and researching today she came up again.
Product of France …
Wine of the night: Pepperwood Grove pinot noir. It seems that it, like Smoking Loon (which produces a tasty, inexpensive syrah/shiraz), is owned/made/marketed by Don Sebastiani & Sons. From the “winemaker comments” on my bottle we have: