My retirement life is increasingly filled with YouTube and Podcasts. Is that better than being stuck on Facebook and Instagram?
Going all the way back to 2016, Radiolab has a spin-off podcast about the Supreme Court, called More Perfect. They recently reran this early installment about a decision from the time of JFK’s administration.
Recorded a year after the first Covid lockdown, something suitable to continue my reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin.
Almost a year ago I mentioned I was reading a complete collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. After taking a couple of breaks I am now very close to the end. I knew that long before Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock, there was Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin, but until yesterday I had never read “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
Doyle wasn’t just inspired by Poe, Holmes could almost be a continuation of the Dupin series. Everything in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” found its way into Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Holmes, including the narrator, who may as well be Doctor Watson. I sort of knew this, but now I know it.
My heretofore ignorance of the matter, impressed upon me for these many years by my own negligence, made me laugh in such a manner as I have not experienced in many a day! The longstanding failure to take the necessary action in resolving my curiosity, despite having a sense of propinquity regarding the subject, shall forever be a nagging reminder of my limitless capacity for procrastination. Having indulged at last a reading of the original text, I am intrigued not only by the tale itself as realized in the fertile imagination of its short-lived author, but also by the writing style that contains what are, by today’s standards, passages of a certain quaint opacity that are nonetheless compelling in their vividness and vigor.
Here is the story as told by Christopher Lee.
Here is the text of the story, so you can read along with Lee’s narration, which begins in the #119 section, after “The narrative which follows will appear to the reader somewhat in the light of a commentary upon the propositions just advanced.”
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tales_(Poe)/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue
I’m leaving some orange sunshine pop here for later consumption.
Depending on your browser, the playlist below may start automatically. Orange Peel is Andrew Sandoval’s AI DJ assistant.
There are plenty of online notices right now about Charles M. Schulz, who was born 100 years ago today. Terry Gross interviewed Schulz in 1990. Good Ol’ Monte gets a nod, as does cartoonist Jimmy Johnson’s then-wife Rheta, who wrote Good Grief!: The Story of Charles M. Schulz.
In the wake of the revelations about the FTX debacle, Leo LaPorte goes on a justified tear against crypto currency.
Economist Paul Krugman, who sees crypto as a financial hideout for criminals, had some choice words recently.
But if the government finally moves in to regulate crypto firms, which would, among other things, prevent them from promising impossible-to-deliver returns, it’s hard to see what advantage these firms would have over ordinary banks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/crypto-banks-regulation-ftx.html
Speaking of Leo, this next video will start with a bit of Santa twin Scott Wilkinson, the Home Theater Geek, who I have followed for some years. After Scott, Leo has a caller. Keep listening until you realize who it is, or you reach the reveal.
