Poll Six Suites for Solo Cello, but which cellist?One of my favorite Monty Python bits as a child was Pablo Casals leaping from on high into a bucket of boiling fat while playing music. So there is that--though of course it wasn't really Casals playing two bars of music and then screaming followed by a squelching noise ( Read more... )

Poll Standing on the shoulders of giants

This is another grudge match, albeit wankier than Bourdain vs. Ray, and much older. Who invented the calculus? Hard to say. We use Leibnizian notation, because, yo Newton--your weird ratios are not viable in a working system of mathematics! But the theory? Largely Newtonian. Because Leibniz? You do yourself no favors when you posit ideas like " ( Read more... )

Poll name of poll? fred.This can be 80's Madonna circa "Like a Virgin" vs. 80's Mr. T. I never saw the A Team though. Not one episode. This confuses my husband. And may confuse you, but there is nothing I can do about it. Or it can be present day English Garden Madonna (with purple leotard on underneath her pretty frock) against puffy looking Mr. T who makes silly ( Read more... )

Poll Still looking for a catch phrase.

OK, so this is a grudge match. Anthony Bourdain makes fun of Rachel Ray all the time on his show. Bourdain eats anything and everything, smokes too much, and wears Ramones tee shirts in the jungle. Rachel Ray? Uh, she makes burgers out of everything and likes to tip badly ( Read more... )

Poll It's raining, it's pouring...

The rain is making me sort of melancholy, damping down my blood lust, so I thought today would be a good day to battle ideas or even just shapes. This one comes down to circle vs. square, really.

So pointillism like Seurat, or cubism like Braques and Picasso?

Poll Snarky vs. Idiotic

I know I am breaking unanon with this, but I am standing by with glue and tape and that healer of healers, that is chocolate.

So House with his ducklings, or Wooster with the Jeeves Almighty? Laurie all young and rosy cheeked? Or Laurie grizzled and limping?

Poll The Butler did it....

So TV Land had a 48 hour Benson marathon on this weekend and I had forgotten that that was one of the TV shows besides the Muppet Show and Mork & Mindy that I liked and was allowed to watch as a kidlet. I was sick on Saturday and it was raining so I watched it until my husband made me stop, and we watched Jimmy Stewart as an amiable drunk in " ( Read more... )

Poll Tag Team Sunday!

Philosophize! Electrify! Pun! er, what does Solo do in a word? Sass? Be Scrappy? SNARK!

I think we'll have tag team fights on Sundays. Cause why not.

Poll Duck KapitalBefore reading Das Kapital, I thought for sure that Groucho could out funny Karl from inside of a dog. But then I read such comic gems as ( Read more... )

Poll Electrical storms make me think of Faraday living in an electrified cage to prove the safety of electricity.

So I guess this could be a question of who likes mathematical equations and who prefers their science written out in plain English. Faraday couldn't do math, but was a physicist. Maxwell took all of Faraday's words and turned them into equations. (The ones that Einstein consequently used as the basis of his Theory of Relativity.So two pasty ( Read more... )