ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Maurice Ravel Sonatina 2nd movement: Minuet Marcelle Meyer A transfer from the LP, with the LP noise, but the playing is extraordinarily be...

[P]rotecting consumers, ensuring that they aren’t the victims of predatory financial practices, is something voters can relate to. And choos...

My headline was going to be "Senate Confirms 2nd Jewish Lesbian to Court," but the Save the Males website beat me to it. It contin...

Camouflage kitty. On a serious note, someone left two old pet carriers by my church's door last Sunday, with a couple of cans of cat foo...

Emmanule Chabrier Feuillet d'Album Marcelle Meyer Another great French pianist I wasn't familiar with until happening across her on ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian Knights

Which might be worth reading: The Goddess Of Less-Than-Free Markets is about health care as a marketable good and the problems markets have...

(This is a draft I found. For want of anything better I'm going to post it now, even though I have no idea what the events were that tr...

My mother didn't like the use of vulgar language. As a writer, she thought it was unnecessary. My father swore occasionally, sometimes i...

This one is good but don't watch the video. It is better without it. Jacques Brel and Ne Me Quitte Pas

An old post which still might get this blog banned. If it already wasn't, of course. Which it is, in federal offices. Heh.

(Re-posted from here ) I couldn't fall asleep right away last night and started thinking about the peripheral things that lurk in my sna...

Janis Joplin. Try listening to her after listening to someone homogenized and made appealing. It's a stunning experience. But so are ...

Ben Weber is a rare name in American music that should be better known today. In his book, American Music since 1910, Virgil Thomson said ...

S ince early in this blogging gig I've had fun poking holes in and fun at various items in the newspaper announcing various findings in ...

I own quite a few fantasy and science fiction books which ask questions about gender relations. Some of those I've written about before,...

I t's been two weeks now since the sliming of a fine woman by Andrew Breitbart, FOX and the rest of the Republican lie machine, expose...

You've got to see this video from the Story of Stuff Project. I'm having trouble embedding it. Nena Baker gives some background in...

When I read the news about the booby-loving middle-schooler (see my post 7/9/10 ), I had never heard of the Keep-a-Breast Foundation , which...

I introduced Margaret's Sammy last week. Here she is, just hanging out, with the two older cats, Peanut and Punkin, who seem to be sayin...