Berin Szoka

What a great album

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:22:50 -0400

What a great album

Fun, an orchestral setting of the Goldberg Variations!

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:14:08 -0400

Fun, an orchestral setting of the Goldberg Variations!

How sad is it that the onlly other “Hit” I can...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:12:24 -0400

How sad is it that the onlly other “Hit” I can remember after (Back for Good) is “How Deep is Your Love?” Take that, Take That!

Join me at Versailles for an hour of splendid divertissements!

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:51:23 -0500

Join me at Versailles for an hour of splendid divertissements!

Too much?

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:53:10 -0500

Too much?

"I shall claim no more for [Edmund] Burke than that even radicals can learn wisdom from him, though..."

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:05:06 -0500

“I shall claim no more for [Edmund] Burke than that even radicals can learn wisdom from him, though it should make them no more than intelligent radicals.”

- Russell Kirk in Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered

"Genuine reform, in order to reduce abuses, must be accomplished gradually, the reformer sounding the..."

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:50:51 -0500

“

Genuine reform, in order to reduce abuses, must be accomplished gradually, the reformer sounding the lead all along the way.

Early reformations are amicable reformations with a friend in power.

Late reformations are terms imposed upon a conquered enemy.

Early reformations are made in cool blood.

Late reformations are made under a state of inflammation. In that state of things the people behold in government nothing that is respectable.They see the abuse and they will see nothing else. They fall into the temper of a furious populous provoked at the disorder of a house of ill fame. They go to work by the shortest way, they abate the nuisance, they pull down the house.

”

- - Edmund Burke’s eternal wisdom, later paraphrased as “Early reform is an accommodation made with a friend while late reform is capitulation to an enemy.”

In other words: Let’s deal with the debt (not just the deficit) now while we still can, before our debtors impose terms upon us as a conquered, indebted enemy.

I WANT ONE

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:56:29 -0500

I WANT ONE

jenbenka: at the end, love. or this by laura riding...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:45:41 -0400

jenbenka:

at the end, love. or this by laura riding jackson

published in “The Poems of Laura Riding” by Persea Books

urbanination: Jean Renaudie’s housing complex in Ivry sur...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:32:02 -0400

urbanination:

Jean Renaudie’s housing complex in Ivry sur Seine.

typeverything: Typeverything.com - Project vegetal-identity

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:51:17 -0400

typeverything:

Typeverything.com - Project vegetal-identity

Redskins star John Riggins to Justice O’Connor at a...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:42:04 -0400

Redskins star John Riggins to Justice O’Connor at a disastrous 1985 dinner party

Peter: you'll love [Ian Frazier's book Travels in Siberia"]. plenty of Soviet history in there -- esp. re gulags, which Frazier visits. but his sentences... oy

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:48:37 -0400

Peter: you'll love [Ian Frazier's book Travels in Siberia"]. plenty of Soviet history in there -- esp. re gulags, which Frazier visits. but his sentences... oy
Me: long sentences? seems appropriate for a book about Siberia!

"What did [Hjalmar Schacht, Weimar Germany’s Currency Commissioner, and generally credited with..."

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:07:04 -0400

“What did [Hjalmar Schacht, Weimar Germany’s Currency Commissioner, and generally credited with ending hyper-inflation]] do? He sat on his chair and smoked in his little dark room which still smelled of old floor cloths. Did he read letters? No, he read no letters. Did he write letters? No, he wrote no letters. He telephoned a great deal – he telephoned in every direction and to every German or foreign place that had anything to do with money and foreign exchange as well as with the Reichsbank and the Finance Minister. And he smoked. We did not eat much during that time. We usually went home late, often by the last suburban train, travelling third class. Apart from that he did nothing.”

- Wikipedia

Photo

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:35:59 -0400

Darius: Happy [32nd] Birthday Berin! congrats on getting even!

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:03:21 -0400

Darius: Happy [32nd] Birthday Berin! congrats on getting even!
Berin: thanks, I was getting pretty tired of being told how odd I was!

patrickruffini: http://instagr.am/p/NAO0BPLd1l/

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:00:22 -0400

patrickruffini:

http://instagr.am/p/NAO0BPLd1l/

"It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy (books by this author),..."

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:28:16 -0400

“

It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy (books by this author), born in Seattle, Washington, on this date in 1912. Her parents both died during the influenza pandemic of 1918, when she was only six years old. She was working as a book reviewer and theater critic when she met and married literary critic Edmund Wilson. He’s the one who encouraged her to write some books of her own. She published several novels — including The Group (1963) about a group of Vassar students — but she had a hard time making things up, so most of her novels are autobiographical. Most critics believe that her best book is the memoir Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957). She is also remembered for her literary criticism. The writer Gore Vidal said, “She was our most brilliant literary critic, [because she was] uncorrupted by compassion.”

McCarthy had a fierce feud with the playwright and memoirist Lillian Hellman, whose birthday happened to be the day before hers. They traded catty remarks in the press; Hellman said in The Paris Review: “Miss McCarthy is often brilliant … but she is a lady writer, a lady magazine writer.” And on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, McCarthy called Hellman “overrated, a bad writer, a dishonest writer …” and “every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’; Hellman sued her, but died before the suit was settled.

”

- http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2012/06/21 (via tumblngphilopoet)

- 300&65 Ampersands

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:22:25 -0400

- 300&65 Ampersands

Elementary, my dear Boson!

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:04:06 -0400

Elementary, my dear Boson!