My favourite (musical) things
I’m always stuck for an answer when people ask ‘so what’s your favourite kind of music?’. But for those that are interested, this video pretty much sums it up. Strikes…
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…
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…
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…