Friday, September 26, 2014

Weekly World News: Bear on the Rampage!

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Hello, and welcome to the silly hour. Or, at least, the silly story of the week. I didn't get to see this bear, and yet, in some remo...

Is it Friday yet?

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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 ...