Saturday, September 26, 2009

Week & Weak




From Friday:

More Moore

Michael takes on a radicalized former business reporter.

Comedy at 10

A refresher course on largely discredited Reaganomics as a counterpoint to coverage of Michael Moore.







NBC TV - Thursday, September 24, 2009

Pandamonium

Should we let them die out?

A British naturalist stepped into a firestorm of critcism by suggesting China's giant pandas were an "evoutionary dead end" not worth the cost of saving.

Photo: Travelblog.com
See & Read more at ABC News.

Free Form 006

A few moments of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.

Toad The Wet Sprocket
Fly From Heaven
Dulcinea (1994)

Jackopierce
Summer's Gone
Summer's Gone (2008)

Ataris
The Boys of Summer
So Long Astoria (2003)

East Village Opera Co.
La Habanera (Carmen)
East Village Opera Co. (2005)

Gorgeous New Temp

Friday, September 25, 2009

Worth A Thousand Words


Where can you find a detailed diagram of the ear, an illustration of a beetle, and a picture of how to hit a tennis backhand?

Your dictionary.

And now artist and book binder John Carrera has categorized and re-printed thousands of the wood-carved illustrations used in the 19th century Merriam-Webster dictionaries and compiled them in a new book called “Pictorial Webster’s, A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities.”






Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.


Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion
from John Carrera on Vimeo.