glisten: The Work of the Father…
'One singer referred him to another. He'd meet with these men and women and discuss lives and careers some forty years past and mostly forgotten; they appreciated his respect and inquisitiveness. Conversations would lead to questions that would lead to new singers and new conversations. My father filled hundreds of [...]
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26 August 2008 – 5:00 pm
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10 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
Rhagor | Help us find out more about the mysterious alien “Ghost Slug”
New species found in Wales: 'Unlike most slugs, the Ghost Slug is carnivorous, killing earthworms at night with blade-like teeth, sucking them in like spaghetti. It is also unusual in having no eyes (it is probably blind) and is almost completely white.'
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6 July 2008 – 11:01 pm
Jefferson Bible reveals Founding Father’s view of God, faith - Los Angeles Times
'to summarize his views on Christianity, Thomas Jefferson set to work with scissors, snipping out every miracle and inconsistency he could find in the four Gospels… and reassembled the excerpts into what he believed was a more coherent narrative'
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13 June 2008 – 11:01 pm
The Interview: 1916 | Shorpy :: History in HD
A fabulous picture at Shorpy: 'February 9, 1916. "Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet making phonographic record at Smithsonian." The interviewer is ethnologist Frances Densmore. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.'
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1920s Black Americana Album - a set on Flickr
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An observation
31 May 2008 – 9:13 am
If there’s one lesson I hope everyone concerned has learnt from the current US election cycle: it’s a really stupid idea to disenfranchise a whole bunch of your constituents for any reason. I’m thinking of the debacle surrounding the Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan.
Of course it has only become such a thorny issue because [...]
Marginalia on the word ‘cunt’
4 May 2008 – 9:03 pm
In a generally interesting post about Obama, Hillary and all that stuff, Sherry says this:
I have to admit it’s true that Hillary Clinton has never been called a nigger but I suspect Barack Obama has never been called a cunt.
I think the difference in the way that word is used on each side of the Atlantic [...]
Coming of Age: American Art 1850-1950
18 April 2008 – 11:03 am
This is a touring exhibition of paintings from the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts that is currently at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Though it will be going to Venice and then Fort Lauderdale later in the year, if that’s more convenient for anyone.
I didn’t have hugely high expectations, because the DPG exhibition space [...]
Primarily peculiar
8 January 2008 – 3:35 pm
Is it just me or is the American system of state primaries really bizarre?
And I don’t just mean the Iowan ‘we don’t believe in the secret ballot’ thing. The very fact that the results in Iowa and New Hampshire take on great significance is a clear sign that something isn’t working properly. I mean, no [...]
‘40 Days and 40 Nights’ by Matthew Chapman
21 September 2007 – 7:28 am
Full title: 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania. In other words, it’s about the trial in Dover, Pennsylvania where the school board tried to put Intelligent Design into the biology classes and were found to be in breach of the constitutional separation of church [...]
‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City’ by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
25 June 2007 – 2:20 pm
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran has the subtitle ‘Inside Baghdad’s Green Zone’; the Green Zone being the seven square mile compound in Baghdad centered around the Republican Palace, where the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) under L. Paul Bremer III attempted to rule Iraq for about 12 months after the fall of [...]
FSotW: Old Disneyland
12 May 2007 – 10:54 am
Flickr set of the week is Old Disneyland by Tom Simpson: “Pictures from its construction and first few years of operation.”
Alligator for the Jungle Cruise
Small World
Sleeping Beauty’s Castle under construction
‘Monkey Girl’ and teaching evolution in the US
25 March 2007 – 1:00 pm
I’ve just finished Monkey Girl by Edward Humes, an account of the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District court case about the constitutionality of teaching Intelligent Design in biology lessons. I was slightly underwhelmed by the book—you can read my review here—but the subject is interesting. How do you manage science education in a country [...]
FSotW: Polaroids
10 February 2007 – 1:03 pm
Flickr set of the week is Polaroids, by anniebee. They’re polaroids (obviously)
mainly taken in New York. I really like these - do check out the whole set. Particularly, but not only, the glorious ones of Coney Island.
Soccer in the US
15 January 2007 – 12:03 am
All the coverage about the position of soccer in the US, and whether Beckham moving there will have any impact, had me thinking. If his new home ground is only half-full, he’ll still be playing in front of about 13,000 fans. It’s true, that’s not very many compared to the Bernabéu or Old Trafford, but [...]
Tender American sensibilities
7 January 2007 – 11:43 am
Via bookofjoe; the OED and BBC are repeating their exercise of inviting the public to try and find earlier citations for various words. It’s a somewhat interesting idea but, having seen some of the last series: the results don’t make for riveting television.
What I found interesting was a couple of things from the Washington Post [...]
FSotW: Katrina Damage
2 December 2006 – 1:08 pm
Flickr set of the week this week is Katrina Damage by jsdart.
“these images were shot in November 2006 over a year after the hurricane”
I could have told them that.
29 November 2006 – 8:00 pm
“A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.”
Speaking as a fully-sighted person, when I was in Ecuador (where they use US dollars) I found the near-identical designs of different denominations really annoying; [...]
American oenophilia
16 November 2006 – 10:24 pm
Travelling in the Galapagos and Ecuador, obviously a large proportion of my shipmates and lodgemates were from the US. While I’m on the subject of transAtlantic foodiness: when did Americans all become such wine-buffs? I appreciate that the section of American society that turns up on Galapagos cruises and in Ecuadorian ecolodges is a fairly [...]