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The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
President Yo-Yo Ma

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD
Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Big warehouse sale at the Taschen store. For less than 20&euro ( Read more... )

Times review of Daniel (21.01.09)
One of the ideas (perhaps even a 'theme') of this review excites me most. Can you identify it?
Also: check out the menu, including the vegetarian one. If only my income matched my intended life-style...

¿De donde vengo? el más horribile y áspero/ de los senderos busca...
(Rima LXVI)

I find the richness of Becquer's misery seductive. I've decided to commission a cycle of song-settings from his Rimas. (First crazy project idea for 19.01.09. My average day holds at least twenty such intriguing and often short-lived notions.)

A comment on a NYTimes "Room for Debate" article.
Exactly. Is it far too optimistic to hope that this is an omen of the tenor of the coming four years?

Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks are the three funniest men since the dawn of recorded media.

not to mention "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."

ON an NPR program, discussing the Obama stimulus: a caller mentions the "American ideals of equity and fairness..."

Since when are equity and fairness American ideals? Opportunity, perhaps.

Meredith is leaving early tomorrow morning, returning to Rochester ( Read more... )