Thursday, September 25, 2014
Just one more musical contraption. . .
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I had almost forgotten about this monstrosity, yet another self-playing musical contraption from Siegfried's Museum in Rudesheim, Ger...
Siegfried's Haunted Dolls: take two
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Having finally found a much better video of the automaton-orchestrion from Siegfried's Museum, I wondered if I should completely rewr...
Enchanted (haunted?) dolls
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I have yet to see any really decent video of Siegfried's Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments in Rudesheim, Germany. It looks lik...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Incendiary instruments
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Welcome to my nightmare . One of my continuing feverish obsessions is with, what, old stuff? Old stuff connected to music, to m...
The cheese that saved me
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Not long ago I posted a long screed about how horrible name-brand cheddar has become. Over the years, it's gradually morphe...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Fahrenheit 2014: or, the Bonfire of the Vanities II
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Local authors fume as Bezos holds secret Santa Fe retreat Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos watches a from the wings during the June 18 launch of ...
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Big chill around the campfire: how writers are being silenced
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A Writerly Chill at Jeff Bezos’ Fire By DAVID STREITFELD SEPT. 20, 2014 (Blogger's note: this is a New York Times article which ...
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