Following up on that earlier Russell finding on Youtube, I see that there’s a veritable treasure trove of Russell stuff on there. For instance, I quite like the little TVO presentation on the Three Passions Of Bertrand Russell, or getting to listen to Russell debate the existence of God with a Jesuit philosophy scholar1, or [...]
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Look what I found while trolling YouTube–an ancient CBC clip where Russell is being interviewed on the question of faith in a god.
(I wonder if I have the only 5-year old in town who can identify Bertrand Russell when she sees him in a YouTube clip.)
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Watch this. Just watch it.
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I spent a lot of time last night looking at translations of Latin and Middle High German poetry. Oh, and listening to what I can only refer to as operatic renditions of the pieces.
How did this happen? Well, actually, like many times when I start following a trail of weird connections, it all comes back [...]
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Today I ordered a copy of Possibilities, an EP by Sierra Noble. I’d never heard of the ridiculously young Métis from Manitoba prior to today–which actually kind of surprises me–but as soon as I encountered her on the web today I knew I was going to buy the album.
What I encountered today (indirectly, via Penguin [...]
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I quite like bacon. Indeed, I occasionally require it, ideally in the form of the canonical club sandwich.
You might think, then, that see a short, informative video on bacon would be something I would enjoy.
As you might guess after watching that, “I enjoyed that” was not my immediate reaction. In fact, my immediate reaction was [...]
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When Youtube dies, this post will be very mysterious in my archives.
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You know the drill. I’m skipping the stuff that deals with Bush, Harper, or books, which should get their own posts.
I had a weird fascination with Cass Elliot for a while there, primarily as a reaction to how much I was digging her tune California Earthquake. There were some weird side effects of this, from [...]
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’nuff said.
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Did you know I will be in Boston tomorrow and Tuesday? Did you know Amanda Palmer is playing at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston both of those nights?
I’m just saying.
She’s been doing videos on YouTube for the tracks from the recent album.
Here’s the one that makes me smile the most:
I love that it’s dedicated [...]
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And now, a few observations about things completely unrelated to either North American election:
That Wisdom book showed up today. Totally worth the money. It’s been a long time since I bought a “coffee table book”, but if I had a coffee table I’d be proud to leave this out on it.
You know where I’m find [...]
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When I was playing with YouTube last night, in order to pull out the music for that wildly dissimilar mix, it occurred to me that essentially everything is on YouTube–a revelation that’s been brewing at least since I found Closet Land on there.
So I decided to see if there was anything there featuring my brother. [...]
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I’m in the mood to put up a mix, but it seems like going to the trouble of hosting MP3s and creating xspf files, etc, is just too much work.
So, let’s use YouTube instead. It’s easier, and it offloads the bandwidth and copyright violation to someone else.
Let’s start with a dedication to Sarah Palin and [...]
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While thinking about the use of torture by governments today, I found myself wishing I could just make everyone watch Closet Land1. Of course, I’ve lamented before about the fact that there is no DVD edition–at least no english one, although I did get my hands on a spanish one that at least lets me [...]
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My goal is to redefine the whole history of rhyme
‘Cause the only way to free the soul is to free the mind
And no wisdom as old as this should be confined
To total mystery, so we’ll just read the signs
And DaVinci codes, and try to see the science
In this linguistically-composed pristine design
–extracted from Rhyme Renaissance by [...]
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