Two Christmas posts on a blog by a lapsed Jew. Something must be wrong. Let’s pretend this one is about Boxing Day. Now that I live in Canada and American secular holidays like Thanksgiving and the 4th of July aren’t in effect for the people around me, Christmas is probably the quietest day of the …
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2007 ended so fast that we didn’t manage to mail out our Christmas letter, something we’d just started doing a few years earlier. 2008 went faster for me but the brakes are on this week as I try to bring the locomotive force of my life to a brief resting point. This year we’re getting …
is right here. As winter break moves gently in my direction, I hope to install a year-end, Project Censored Top-5 or Top-10 stories I wished I’d blogged about at the time for 2008. In the meantime, it’s 1-liners. I’ve got defences to prep and meetings to attend and a football game to return to.
I had no idea a wikipedia page existed for unusual types of gramophone records until Music Thing linked to it.
A friend just wrote and said “I’m teaching The Audible Past next week. Anything I should tell them about the book?” Here’s a lightly edited version of my reply: It’s hard for me to answer that. I have done a few class visits where students read the book and just talk about how it happened …
Forwarded to the class listserv by one of the students in my Sound Studies seminar. This reminds me of the rule that in Hollywood films a grocery bag must always contain a loaf of French bread. Film sound clichés.
