I’m feeling faint from the after-effects of time travel, after revisiting this video from TEN YEARS AGO!
Author: DOuG pRATt
Who is Howard Roark?
Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Issued on: December 21, 2020
In the 1950s, the Federal Government largely replaced traditional designs for new construction with modernist ones.
Rand Paul should explain Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead to Trump.
The Long and Winding Road to Get Back
Having escaped the clutches of Stephen Colbert and Middle Earth, Peter Jackson continues his work on what had been Let it Be. OMG, this is some kind of wonderful. Merry Crimble!
Dickens’ Agnostic Christmas
Brian Sibley surveys the creation and many adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol is not about the birth of Jesus. Although Scrooge undergoes a conversion, it is not one of religious faith. Regrets of the past and being forced to confront his inevitable death don’t lead Scrooge to a concern about the afterlife; instead, he wants to make amends and improve the lives of others in the present.
Regarding baby Jesus, Sibley has written a thoughtful and sensitive fantasy interpretation of the event, in Joseph and the Three Gifts: An Angel’s Story.
Slipped My Mind
Looking over long-forgotten drafts for posts, I see that I was going to post this nice tune over three years ago. For some reason that I don’t recall, I didn’t click the publish button.
Did I hear it on Pandora? Was it suggested to me by someone? I don’t remember!
Digging the Groove
One of the most familiar pieces in the traditional Classical music repertoire is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Overplayed.” I’m up for listening to it again, thanks to this early stereo recording that should be heard with a decent pair of headphones to best appreciate its sonic splendor (with apologies to the hearing impaired).
And oh, by the way…
Another post that ticks three blog categories!