Apparently I had the following conversation with another child when I was in grade one ( Read more... )

Ancient Instrument Revived by Computing

Maybe I'm missing something, but somehow I feel like it would have been easier to hire a luthier.

GUY: *speculative look* Violin ( Read more... )

Note to self: do not reread Foucault's Pendulum while studying for your master's comprehensive exams. This will only end in pain.

I will not write "The Templars have something to do with everything" on my comps ( Read more... )

Vancouver Opera's current production of Rigoletto is kind of like a cross between Julie Taymor's Titus and a book of nursery rhymes, with a little added Cell Block Tango. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about that.

Um. Thesis. Yes.

And so we leave Pliny, sitting up late at night, laboring away at the Natural History, with a bra on his head.

- Amy Richlin, "Pliny's Brassiere," in Roman Sexualities, ed. Hallett, Judith P., and Marilyn B. Skinner, 1997, p. 216.

DIRECTOR: Seeing as I am no longer the correct age to sing treble, perhaps I will spare you all. There's a perfectly obvious pun to be made there, but I'm not going to do it.
ME (brightly): The trouble with trebles?
TENOR (sings): Nobody knows the treble I've seeeeen...
DIRECTOR: *facepalm*

Comedy gold.

GUY: Wow, that's a really big lunch!
ME: *facepalm*

From a sentence in my thesis which I am currently writing:

...which appears to be founded in the focus on the evocation of emotion which is evident...

Dear Brain,

Always avoid alliteration anon.

No love,
Me

Also, that is some seriously terrible prose. It might be time for bed.