Civilization

Came across a blog which appeared at first glance to include the line 'In the morning my father had his usual breakfast of warm cats....

Romantic pianists revisited

David writes I did like reading that account on your blog - of course, for me Herrmann's score for Vertigo is unforgettable, because it ...

moments before the midnight to dawn

Many bad developments. E-mails the only good thing. Here's one from IG, who always makes me laugh. May 25 2007 On the way back from an i...

But it will be reported

Johanna has come to my rescue with T-Com. She went to a T-Punkt and asked about my phone. I have not, it seems, cancelled my account in a mo...

The Last of the Romantic Pianists - Another Chance Encounter

Hassan has sent this account, which I love, of a chance encounter which led to his meeting Louis Lortie: So it's really not all that muc...

Salt & Vinegar Crisps at Yorckschloßchen

The phone line is still down. I may have inadvertently terminated my account with Deutsche Telekom. Went to Yorckschloßchen, the jazz café o...

No blog complete without somebody's pet

IG is about to take his turn in talks about talks. Expresses concern over the declining cuteness of Knut. Meanwhile sends pictures.

Continent Cut Off

Phone line dead. Deutsche Telekom is on strike. Wir sind für Sie da.

G and G

Gilbert we don’t like to be contaminated by art that’s what we always say so that’s why we always, we don’t go to shows any more we don’t go...

Rashomon & Robocop

St John the Baptist is the patron saint of blogs. He wandered up and down the land preaching and baptising and saying that one would come la...

Manon at Staatsoper -- Free if you like open-air opera on a giant screen

The newsletter of Staatsoper Unter den Linden has just arrived. The May 19 performance of Massenet's Manon (now sold out) will be projec...

Art / Show Me the Money

Getzels and Csikszentmihaly (1976) found that most artists were drawn to painting because it allowed social isolation. However, aspiring pai...

Fix your mom's computer for Mother's Day

This Sunday is Mother's Day. Why not fix your mom's computer? Fog Creek is offering a Mother's Day special on Copilot, a free o...

Gilbert & George

Back in the echo chamber. TAR ART RAT found a BBC download of a new work by Gilbert and George, available for 2 days only here .

Joel Spolsky & T S Eliot

Came across an interview of Joel Spolsky on Scoble about a month after the event. Spolsky runs Fog Creek Software, which produces Fogbugz, ...

Silence of Lovecraft

As to letters, my case is peculiar. I write such things exactly as easily and as rapidly as I would utter the same topics in conversation...

Philosophers and Psychologists

I was once a Junior Lecturer in Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. One day the philosophy tutor, Kathy Wilkes, came back to lunch ...