- Via Nico Muhly, Ian Bostridge -- Ian Bostridge! -- has reviewed -- well, written about -- Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise. [Times Literary Supplement]
- Ha punctuation, nerds unite! [The Onion]
- Oh, happy day! Via Oboeinsight, a certain magazine about classical music is putting all of its archives online. [Gramophone]
- Joshua Kosman is willing to trade the adult benefit of drinking scotch for the lost childhood ability to enjoy The Little Prince. [On a Pacific Aisle]
- Jessica Duchen for Mayor of London! [Jessica Duchen]
- Steve Smith is contemplating packing it all in, the whole blogging thing. Say it ain't so! [Night after Night]
- The ocean washes some grand pianos -- flotsam? jetsam? conceptual art? -- up on the shores of the Netherlands. [Monotonous Forest]
4.5.08
In Brief: May Day Edition
Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond.
No chance at all that I'll pack it in, Charles -- just trying to figure out how to breathe new life into what has recently become little more than a parade of one linked review after another. Apologies if my fit of existentialist melodrama caused alarm -- and trust me, your attention means a lot.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Steve! I know you said as much in your post (that you were not really planning to pack it in), but I wanted to organize a preemptive strike. Just in case.
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