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august 29
and summer's
on the line
(it's a sign)
Monday, August 29, 2011
Where Indeed?
Where are the liberal media when we most need them? President Obama vacations in a rented cottage for 10 days and the talking heads go on a feeding frenzy. Presidential candidate Romney plans to bulldoze his measly 3,009-square-foot vacation home in La Jolla, CA to replace it with an 11,062-square-foot cottage, and hardly a peep. Maybe I don't consume enough of the extreme rhetorical diets offered by either the right of the left, so I am out of touch.
Isn't this a great opportunity to press the "tax the rich" issue? Or is Romney excused because he's a Republican and such things are expected of Republicans? Did he at least think about saying, "Honey, let's put that new place on the ocean on hold until after the election? It just doesn't LOOK good given the economy most Americans are living in?"
Meanwhile, the Obamas had to leave early to go to another home they don't own to escape Hurricane Irene. Doesn't seem fair to me, but I imagine Pat Buchanan can explain it.
Isn't this a great opportunity to press the "tax the rich" issue? Or is Romney excused because he's a Republican and such things are expected of Republicans? Did he at least think about saying, "Honey, let's put that new place on the ocean on hold until after the election? It just doesn't LOOK good given the economy most Americans are living in?"
Meanwhile, the Obamas had to leave early to go to another home they don't own to escape Hurricane Irene. Doesn't seem fair to me, but I imagine Pat Buchanan can explain it.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Obsolete? Never!
My half-century old monaural (what was that?) LP recording of Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition contains a notice at the base of the back of the album cover that many Columbia records of the time carried: “This Columbia High Fidelity recording is scientifically (love that word!) designed to play with the highest quality of reproduction on the phonograph of your choice, old or new. If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short, you can purchase this record with no fear of its becoming obsolete in the future.”
Ignoring the imponderable “When might it become obsolete if not ‘in the future’?” I wonder what company today might promise any product would never become obsolete? Or want to do so? Who’d buy stock in a firm that produced items that would never become obsolete?
One thing not obsolete to my ears: Bernstein’s performance with the NYPhil!
Monday, August 15, 2011
Welcome!
Welcome!
"Welcome" in this case goes in more than one direction: I welcome you, and I welcome the new experience of writing/managing a blog, and I invite you to welcome me. Since I have no idea who might read this, and you may well have no idea who I am, and since I've never done this before, we all have something to learn together. So, welcome to all of it/all of you.
What is this blog about, and what is it for? We will have to see. I've been writing some stuff I do not know what to do with ("with which I do now know what to do"?). Editors and other gate-keepers of the print media thoroughly frustrate a guy who has been used to making his own decisions about what to say when and to whom. So I will try this for a time, and if you will try it with me we will see what comes of it.
My blog's title is pretentious, to say the least. I kept trying something simpler and more human, but my imagination ran out in the face of all that were already taken. So I plugged in "Coeli et Terra" and it was available. Wonder of wonders! It's Latin for "heaven/sky and earth." Say it all together: "That's really pretentious!" All it means here is that I will post whatever comes to mind about whatever interests me at the moment. But I am not smart enough to cover the whole known and unknown universe. Maybe you are. Let's do it together. Now I wonder what will happen when I hit "publish post..."
Welcome!
"Welcome" in this case goes in more than one direction: I welcome you, and I welcome the new experience of writing/managing a blog, and I invite you to welcome me. Since I have no idea who might read this, and you may well have no idea who I am, and since I've never done this before, we all have something to learn together. So, welcome to all of it/all of you.
What is this blog about, and what is it for? We will have to see. I've been writing some stuff I do not know what to do with ("with which I do now know what to do"?). Editors and other gate-keepers of the print media thoroughly frustrate a guy who has been used to making his own decisions about what to say when and to whom. So I will try this for a time, and if you will try it with me we will see what comes of it.
My blog's title is pretentious, to say the least. I kept trying something simpler and more human, but my imagination ran out in the face of all that were already taken. So I plugged in "Coeli et Terra" and it was available. Wonder of wonders! It's Latin for "heaven/sky and earth." Say it all together: "That's really pretentious!" All it means here is that I will post whatever comes to mind about whatever interests me at the moment. But I am not smart enough to cover the whole known and unknown universe. Maybe you are. Let's do it together. Now I wonder what will happen when I hit "publish post..."
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