Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Ivy going green
National Geographic's green guide has
some interesting analysis of organic
cat food.
Brandon Farms, By Nature Organics,
Castor and Pollux, Dick Van Patton's,
Karma Organic, Natural Planet,
Newman's Own
some interesting analysis of organic
cat food.
Brandon Farms, By Nature Organics,
Castor and Pollux, Dick Van Patton's,
Karma Organic, Natural Planet,
Newman's Own
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Storycorps
Getting an interview through Storycorps was also a most wonderful experience.
The mission of the group is to "honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening."
"Since 2003, over 35,000 everyday people have shared life stories with family and friends in our StoryBooths. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind."
Most awesome thing ever. :-)
The mission of the group is to "honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening."
"Since 2003, over 35,000 everyday people have shared life stories with family and friends in our StoryBooths. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind."
Most awesome thing ever. :-)
Tenement Museum
New York's Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history. The museum itself is the street. Our guide was excellent. He spent about an hour explaining the history of the area.
He showed us the restaurant where Trotsky ate almost every night when he lived in New York. It is now an Asian diner. He also showed us a place where there was carved into the stone the face of Karl Marx.
What an experience.
He showed us the restaurant where Trotsky ate almost every night when he lived in New York. It is now an Asian diner. He also showed us a place where there was carved into the stone the face of Karl Marx.
What an experience.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Grateful, nyc
1. Grateful to God and all that helps me get through a day
2. Grateful for wonderful weekend in NYC
3. Grateful for Story Corps interview - amazingly wonderful!
4. Grateful for Lucia at the Met - what an experience!
5. Grateful for the Tenement Museum visit - so interesting!
6. Grateful for first experience at a bed and breakfast
7. Grateful for nice meals with great company including roommate Maria from Argentina
On an unrelated matter, STC articles included review of Elmore Leonard's book and first part of green print experience article. Articles to come I hope include - member bio, article on moving to Clearview from Gothic Highway, more on green print?
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Sat. Oct. 18 - included Diana Damrau as Lucia (also sung by Sutherland in her lifetime) and Piotr Becazala as Edgardo (sung by Pavaroti in his lifetime) and Vladimir Sotyanov as Enrico. In typical opera form, this opera included blood and hysterics and very high drama. Lucia loves Edgardo. But a letter she gets from him shows he does not love her. She ends up marrying someone else, prompted by her brother's recommendation, only to find that her dispicable (who I hate) brother forged the letter. Lucia goes absolutely crazy and as a consequence goes on a spree that leaves her with blood on her dress - we see her singing with this blood all over the place. It is based on a true story.
2. Grateful for wonderful weekend in NYC
3. Grateful for Story Corps interview - amazingly wonderful!
4. Grateful for Lucia at the Met - what an experience!
5. Grateful for the Tenement Museum visit - so interesting!
6. Grateful for first experience at a bed and breakfast
7. Grateful for nice meals with great company including roommate Maria from Argentina
On an unrelated matter, STC articles included review of Elmore Leonard's book and first part of green print experience article. Articles to come I hope include - member bio, article on moving to Clearview from Gothic Highway, more on green print?
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Sat. Oct. 18 - included Diana Damrau as Lucia (also sung by Sutherland in her lifetime) and Piotr Becazala as Edgardo (sung by Pavaroti in his lifetime) and Vladimir Sotyanov as Enrico. In typical opera form, this opera included blood and hysterics and very high drama. Lucia loves Edgardo. But a letter she gets from him shows he does not love her. She ends up marrying someone else, prompted by her brother's recommendation, only to find that her dispicable (who I hate) brother forged the letter. Lucia goes absolutely crazy and as a consequence goes on a spree that leaves her with blood on her dress - we see her singing with this blood all over the place. It is based on a true story.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Craig's list
1. Grateful to God and all that gets me through a day
2. Grateful to Craig's list
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/vac/873370250.html
2. Grateful to Craig's list
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/vac/873370250.html
Thursday, October 9, 2008
STC conferences
1. Grateful to God and all that helps me get through the day
2. Grateful to this list of STC conferences especially those in warm places
2009 Atlanta, Georgia
3-6 May
Room rate: $174.00
2010 Dallas, Texas
2-5 May
Room rate: $169.00
2011 Sacramento, California
15-18 May
Room rate: 174.00
2012 Chicago, Illinois
20-23 May
Room rate: 199.00
2013 Atlanta, Georgia
5-8 May
Room rate: 179.00
2. Grateful to this list of STC conferences especially those in warm places
2009 Atlanta, Georgia
3-6 May
Room rate: $174.00
2010 Dallas, Texas
2-5 May
Room rate: $169.00
2011 Sacramento, California
15-18 May
Room rate: 174.00
2012 Chicago, Illinois
20-23 May
Room rate: 199.00
2013 Atlanta, Georgia
5-8 May
Room rate: 179.00
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Cell, Good Nature
1. Grateful to God and all that helps me get through a day.
2. Grateful that I topped up my cell phone due 10/31/2008 14 left plus 10 now 24
3. Good Nature is coming on Monday
2. Grateful that I topped up my cell phone due 10/31/2008 14 left plus 10 now 24
3. Good Nature is coming on Monday
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Bruckner's 8th
1. Grateful to God and all that helps me get through a day.
2. Grateful for upcoming vp debate and Katie Couric's interviews of the vp's. One question she asked was what the best and worst things that Dick Cheney did. SP said it was good he supports our troops and bad he shot that guy. JB said DC is good at getting things done and bad because he shredded the constitution.
3. Grateful for the Cleveland Orchestra.
We are off to the symphony on Nov. 22. It is to be the Cleveland Orchestra doing Bruckner's 8th, a work I have not heard in concert before. I can hardly wait.
The work is not without controversy. As shown in wikipedia, when the work was first performed, the well known critic (E. Hanslick) left after the slow movement. His review described the symphony as "interesting in detail, but strange as a whole, indeed repellent. The peculiarity of this work consists, to put it briefly, in importing Wagner's dramatic style into the symphony." (wikipedia notes that this was less negative than Hanslick's reviews of Bruckner's earlier symphonies).
There were also many positive reviews from Bruckner's admirers. One anonymous writer described the symphony as "the crown of music in our time". Hugo Wolf wrote to a friend that the symphony was "the work of a giant" that "surpasses the other symphonies of the master in intellectual scope, awesomeness, and greatness".
Herbert Blomstedt is to be the conductor. Wikipedia points out an interesting observation that he is a Seventh-day Adventists. He does not rehearse on Saturdays, the sabbath of the Seventh-day Adventist. He does perform concerts on Saturdays as he does not consider this to be work.
2. Grateful for upcoming vp debate and Katie Couric's interviews of the vp's. One question she asked was what the best and worst things that Dick Cheney did. SP said it was good he supports our troops and bad he shot that guy. JB said DC is good at getting things done and bad because he shredded the constitution.
3. Grateful for the Cleveland Orchestra.
We are off to the symphony on Nov. 22. It is to be the Cleveland Orchestra doing Bruckner's 8th, a work I have not heard in concert before. I can hardly wait.
The work is not without controversy. As shown in wikipedia, when the work was first performed, the well known critic (E. Hanslick) left after the slow movement. His review described the symphony as "interesting in detail, but strange as a whole, indeed repellent. The peculiarity of this work consists, to put it briefly, in importing Wagner's dramatic style into the symphony." (wikipedia notes that this was less negative than Hanslick's reviews of Bruckner's earlier symphonies).
There were also many positive reviews from Bruckner's admirers. One anonymous writer described the symphony as "the crown of music in our time". Hugo Wolf wrote to a friend that the symphony was "the work of a giant" that "surpasses the other symphonies of the master in intellectual scope, awesomeness, and greatness".
Herbert Blomstedt is to be the conductor. Wikipedia points out an interesting observation that he is a Seventh-day Adventists. He does not rehearse on Saturdays, the sabbath of the Seventh-day Adventist. He does perform concerts on Saturdays as he does not consider this to be work.
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