R Allan Baruz: Hostage to CrapMe and the media.(Untitled)- May 23, 2003 Yesterday’s Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony: Kenny Chesney (why do I keep wanting to pronounce that chay-ney) was touchingly touched by his award. Alan Jackson’s video for “Drive” I liked that video too, but then I’m easily swayed by that family continuity stuff. Toby Keith was voted Entertainer of Year. Was “How do you like me now” only last year Phew. The Dixie Chicks did not get a warm reception, and Alan Jackson enjoyed every moment of..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/22.html#a1239 (Untitled)- May 18, 2003 I am packing for a business trip for a couple of weeks, and connection status there is unknown, so if you don’t hear from me for a while, and suddenly everything appears, well. Afraid that the TiVo would delete the Series Finale of Farscape, I watched it. Wow, what a bummer of a cliffhanger to end upon, but the episode does tie up all the Ktratsi plotlines. My suspicions concerning .hackSIGN seem to be bearing out, and I think I see the way that the rest of the 26-show series will shape.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/18.html#a1234 (Untitled)- May 16, 2003 Caught a bit of Rigoletto last night on WNYE. Though the TiVo said it was the Jonathan Miller production at English National Opera, with John Rawnsley, Arthur Davies, Marie McLaughlin, it looked more like it was set in the original period, rather than the Depression-era Miller production. The Mantuan duke was played by a Argentinian () tenor, so I suppose it was this one.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/15.html#a1229 Ten things I hate about Star Trek- May 15, 2003 Everyone else is linking this, so why not I’m juggling a few other things that are not ready for bloggage yet, so I hope this will entertain. It is quite a pity about Firefly, but I haven’t quite made up my mind about whether or not it surpassed the Farscape space opera. But certainly both touched more resonant chords in me than anything the Star Trek franchise has touched since the animated cartoon, alas. Except perhaps the psychological torture of Picard. Perhaps.http://www.happyfunpundit.com/hfp/archives/000514.html#000514 (Untitled)- May 7, 2003 Which passage reminded me of this one: And there were other things. “You’re my teacher,” he said quietly. “My friend. Ten years ago when I was going insane trying to—to crush out the fire inside me—you told me that it was possible to have that fire, to hold it and keep it, not as a secret that I had to hide but as a way I could make my living and as a glory, a joy in itself. You told me that dreams were not insanity. Just for that, if you’d done...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/07.html#a1216 (Untitled)- May 7, 2003 I meant to post that last quotation last Tuesday or Wednesday when I read it or Thursday when I finished the book. Lots of literary references in other languages, some of which I can Just Make Out. Ooh, the next one in the Lymond Chronicles looks to be a court intrigue, which is a particularly favorite subgenre of mine, in any genre.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/06.html#a1214 (Untitled)- May 6, 2003 “Why should you think so Why assume me to be of such different stuff We have the same blood, the same upbringing. What else is there, at the end of the day, that we can call our own We’re our father’s prejudices and our swordmaster’s dead men; our mother’s palate and our nurse’s habit of speech. We’re the books unwritten by our tutor, and our groom’s convictions and the courage of our first horse. I share all that. Five years—even five such..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/06.html#a1213 (Untitled)- May 5, 2003 San Juan de la Cruz, sitting in his cell, staring out over the Castillan plain and the empty sky: todo y nada he mutters to himself, “Todo y nada.” But, fellow traveler in a latter age, which was which Are you quite surehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/05.html#a1211 Like the dollar store...ON CRACK- May 2, 2003 I agree.http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2003/04/28.php (Untitled)- May 1, 2003 Bruce Wexler thinks poetry is dead, and that he helped kill it. Discuss. Whoops, I meant to write more. Notes: Wexler places the blame on the surrounding culture, rather than poets and the institutions with which they surrounded themselves, as Gioia did. Edmund Wilson: “Is Verse a Dying Technique.” Epstein once asked in... Commentary, was it “Who killed poetry” He ends with an allusion to Frost, much as Plato’s Republic turns on the pure poetry of the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/hostageToCrap/2003/05/01.html#a1204 |