This will be my last post for 2004.
I thought about doing a list of predictions, but I can’t think of 5 or even 10, which is weird. 2005 is a year that holds nebulous promise for me. My wife and I are leaving for a trip around the world, beginning February 15 (roughly). We […]

I got tired of waiting to develop the film before putting the digital photos online from our Yosemite trip last week (has it been a week already?), so here they are. About half of these were taken by Kaoru and half by me.
As I was looking at these, I realized that there is a […]

We’ve been assaulted by storms these last two days.
Last night, it sounded like the very fury of the skies was going to come through our window. When I woke up this morning, I looked out at the ocean. For a quarter mile or so out from shore, the water was mud-brown and angry. It […]

Greg Sandow writes:
For various reasons — a project with an orchestra, a pending review (which my wife and I are writing jointly) of Richard Taruskin’s five-volume history of western music — I’ve been listening to renaissance music, by Josquin and Ockeghem.
And I’m both bored and irritated by some of the performances I hear. That pure […]

The Elegant Variation posted a blurb about de-linking Amazon.
I’ve been meaning to do this for about a week, ever since I found out that Amazon donated a large percentage of their political donations to the Republican Party (vomit). Powell’s is my new online bookseller of choice - they’ve got low prices, great selection, and […]