Tooting skies blue again
The wonderful weather yesterday put everyone in a good mood. This was the first sky like this I’ve seen in a long time.
The King’s new clothes
If you read that one pianist of a duo was a ‘quixotic Moldavian jazz pianist living in Oslo’, and that the duo’s recital in which “Schuman merges into tango into…
For ballet music fans…
Thanks to Adam Lopez (who I have to thank on an almost weekly basis these days), genius creator of all nearly all the Wikipedia pages on Petipa, Minkus and Imperial…
More joys of libraries & Der gestohlene Abend
It’s some time now since I finished Wolfram Fleischhauer’s latest novel, Der gestohlene Abend, which I enjoyed so much I wanted to blog about it even before I’d got past…
The bit the Tories left out about teaching in Singapore
Amused, in a despairingly cynical way, to see that the best the Tories can come up with as an educational policy is to give teachers the power to seize iPods.…
Michael Phelps: why I’m not disappointed
From Reason.com, What Michael Phelps Should Have Said. The article is what I would like to have said, only Radley Balko’s said it better. I’m not given to having sporting…