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My new neighbor has put up curtains so I don't see their gargantuan tv anymore. -
Three books read recently.
From the Mixed-Up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Reread: like everyone else, I first read this as a child.)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King ( Read more... ) -
Annual "checkups" are not useful and may even be harmful.
...In a series of reports that began in 1989 and is still continuing, an expert committee sponsored by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, an arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, found little support for many of the tests commonly included in a typical physical exam for symptomless people.I cannot tell you how ( Read more... ) -
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Someone has finally moved into the house next door, which had been empty for at least a year. Whoever it is has a television with a screen so large I can watch it from my kitchen. Right now they're watching Terminator 3. -
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
NPR has a whole aria up. This is a ridiculously famous Handel song, but with good reason. Scroll all the way down to number nine. It plays an ad first.
Ombra mai fu
There is also an interview with vocal clips. (It's kind of creepy: she talks about her sister's death a bit.) -
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has died.I rarely listen to opera anymore, but if there were one singer I whose career I haphazardly followed and admired, she would be it. Her career was atypical: she started off as a violist, and often worked with notable directors and in more progressive venues rather than, say, the Met ( Read more... ) -
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At work we got coupons offering $5 off the Bodies exhibit. The coupons read:
Hours of Operation
Monday-Thursday 9am-7pm
Friday-Sunda 9am-9pm
Services
--Cafe serving healthy sandwiches and baked goodsBecause that's just what you want after looking at all the dead bodies. A nice big sandwich ( Read more... ) -
hyperbole alert
"The pea has played an important role in dietary life and culture since the dawn of recorded history."
--Copy from a package of SnapPea crisps
Mendel would be proud.
