In Dulci Jubilo is attributed to a Dominican Abbot of the fourteenth century, Heinrick Suso. The fable suggests that one night the Abbot heard the angels singing it as he was stabling his do… Read More

About this time of year I embark on all the filing I might have done throughout the past year if I had half the brains god gave a crab apple. Among the bills and legal notices I found the fo… Read More

Investigator — not window dressing.She was Veep for Hillary Clinton in the first term. What a neat trick that was. Made all those radical lefties sit down — in the back of the… Read More

Diana gifted me with The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.I opened the first volume randomly and my eye lit upon: "Jornada ... An act of a play; a book or canto of a poem. 2. In Mexico etc… Read More

As beauty resides in the beholder's eye, so logic belongs to whoever defines its terms.Your reasons are not mine.Hence the difficulty of persuading by "reasoned argument."Logic is a game of… Read More

Stars drew our eyes until we saw patterns palpable to all. Stars so far as we could see until we learned to see farther.Universes! They, too, took form and pattern, so far as we could see.No… Read More

Like the vivid hue Of a young man's blue shirt,Another's death engulfs me.And, as promised, diminishes me.Yet, after ebb,I return to myselfa little closer--ml Read More

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Erik Loomis  is right to question a speakers position: Pro? Con? In? Out? Pay Me? Bless me? or round about?Brecht said: "First feed the face and then talk right and wrong!"One's moral w… Read More

 Mobile: Brother Heinrich By DJS & ml  The English composer John Rutter delighted to tell the legend of Heinrich Susso, a 14th-century Dominican Abbot, who is credited wit… Read More

Digby posts a quote which, despite her usually persuasive prose, and without the least fault on her part, induces me to wander off her point to my own pointless weepy stuff for the English l… Read More

While assembling the recipes for Dum Luk's Ordinary I came across this file. It is a sketch to begin a book. But which one? The synapses issue a stale fart and inquire if any whiskey might h… Read More

The young man – scapegrace--Declined chivvyinginto a proper place.Choose to drift from space to spaceinto an old agesaved from disgraceby obscurity alone.    &nbs&hell…Read More

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Halfway through the morning coffee I came across Duncan's post on the grifter society. That an arts administrator might claim a salary so far in excess of the annual budget of the small arts… Read More

In the event, it is a century since the demise of Bram Stoker. BBC Radio 3's The Essay presents five short (fifteen minutes each) takes on the man who wrote the book that eclipsed himself an… Read More

Today's Guardian has an article about job interviewer's trick questions and riddles to winnow applicants.Try this one. You're locked in a pitch-black, empty room with bare walls and no elec… Read More

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As King John said:To All & Sundry F. Christmas in particular!And may none be denied light enough to see by.--ml Read More

Review by Martin Langeland Bruno Heinz Jaja's PunktContrapunct was introduced at the Hoffnung Interplanetary MusicFestival as a sort of kaffee with flagellated cream.If it weren't a tau… Read More

 Atrios muses:I don't have a fully fleshed out point here, but it occurs to me that there are certain people in politics who are like the finance guys in business. They're so removed… Read More

Actually that should read "I've Joined". Intermittent blogging continues here. But those seeking a social network experience should look for [email protected] Read More

The fortnight of seasonal tricks and treats quickly, but stealthily, approaches.To aid your mayhem quest and spread the cheerful dread I offer this virtual haunted house tour through the cob… Read More

What price a turn of phrase? Dailykos posts a diary recommending some counter actions to ameliorate the unhappiness of local merchants over toilet use at the Wall Street demos: OWS. It concl… Read More

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Left to Right:LapSang Souchong, Bruiser James and Smedley Q. Clangwheedle take the seat while Ozma Tiamat Mehitabel, with suitable disdain, turns her back to all above.--ml Read More

Earle: "The job of a consultant is to restate the client's question in such a way that the problem states its solution."Problem:At present we have a depressed economy with too little demand… Read More