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MA Climate Concert: World Flutes Against Climate Change (5/19, Boston)
On Saturday, May 19, the sixth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert will showcase master musicians from three widely different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural flute styles,...
View ArticleIn Which I Am Printed In The Times Of Malta. Where?
This place:Malta Listeni/ˈmɒltə/, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Maltese: Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the...
View ArticleA 3:2 Man In A 2:1 World — Frequency Ratios are the Nuts and Bolts of Music...
Recently I visited a diary that had nothing to do with any of my interests or skills (probably a familiar experience for most of us). In this case, it was the diary title that caught my eye; this...
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"World Flutes Against Climate Change"— MA Benefit Concert, 5/19/12
On Saturday, May 19, the sixth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert will showcase master musicians from three widely different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural flute styles,...
View ArticleMy Letter In The Boston Herald Attracts An Unseasonal Hailstorm Of Stupid
The Boston Herald (my local Murdoch rag) recently ran an article from the Seattle Times on a problem with animals:SEATTLE — As climate change transforms their habitat, some animals are already on the...
View ArticleMore Climate Letters Printed: Hello, Minneapolis! Hello, Calgary! You Ready...
I've been getting a fair number of letters in print recently. One of them was in the Boston Herald, my local fishwrap, and as I diaried a few days back, it attracted a massive outpouring of...
View ArticlePhun With Phonetics: The Surprise Zoo Has Surprises For Everyone!
Crossposted at Running Gamak Part of my life and work as a teacher is to find new angles on familiar ideas. Students at college level (I teach music education) have often already solidified their...
View ArticleClimate Letter: Do Rapturists Cheat At Solitaire?
It's part of my daily routine: plug "climate change news" into the Google bar and follow my nose until I find something that cries out for a 150-word response.I'm closing in on 1000 consecutive climate...
View ArticleThe Climes They Are A'Changin'— Two Boston-area Climate Letters
A few days ago the Boston Globe published this:As temperatures are projected to climb, polar ice to melt, and oceans to swell over the coming decades, Boston is likely to bear a disproportionate impact...
View ArticleThe Midnight Meme Of Paul Revere: Three Recent Climate Letters
I grew up in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a small town most notable in recent years as the origin point of John Linnell and John Flansburgh, better known as the pop group They Might Be Giants. And before...
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Freaky Friday — Charlie Haden Sounds Like A Rain Forest
Welcome to the DFH Freaky Friday weekly music series Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, we’re here at roughly 9PM Eastern, every week. So take off your shoes, plop down on that...
View ArticleClimate Change SOS: Five Recent Hits From The Climate Letter Project
Welcome to the newest intermittent report from the Climate Letter Project. Have you written a Climate Letter recently? The past couple of weeks have been very productive, LTE-wise. That's good....
View ArticleThe Other Path To The Uncanny Valley: Romney-vulsion Explained!
All of us have observed it. Romney repels people viscerally. Even his supporters feel uncomfortable around him. The only people who actually seem to like the guy are his wife and sons...and they...
View ArticleBreaking: Boston Mayor Tom Menino to Endorse Warren Tomorrow
The Boston Globe's Andrew Ryan tweets:Confirmed with 2 sources. RT @gintautasd: Menino expected to endorse Warren Friday http://goo.gl/... #masen #bospoli And the Dorchester Reporter's writes: Mayor...
View ArticleArnold Rimmer: Mitt Romney's Hologrammatic Alter Ego
This diary is in the spirit of Mitt Romney or Bertie Wooster?, which mistakenly (IMO) attempts to equate Wodehouse's hero with our current Republican nominee.A far better match is found elsewhere in...
View ArticlePress ONE To Help Us Impeach This Tortellini!
Lunchtime in the WarrenS kitchen. Daughter (7 3/4, homeschooled, eccentric) and I are eating tortellini. She is deep in her book.Phone:ringy ringy ringy. I pick up the receiver.
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Bill McKibben & Naomi Klein Do The Math in MA: Divest! Invest! Protest!
Event Report: Thursday, November 15 — The Boston, MA appearance of the Bill McKibben Do The Math roadshow. 2500 people almost completely filled Boston's Orpheum Theater.My wife, daughter and I got...
View ArticleThe Bullet Bounced Off Me And Fell To The Floor: A Dumb Luck Story
My mother learned to shoot rifles in her youth, in Girl Scouts; according to family lore, my grandma was distressed at Mom's tomboyish qualities and was very pleased when she announced that she "loved...
View ArticleThe Climate Letter Project's Fourth Year: Seven Recent Hits
Beginning on January 1, 2010, I resolved to write a letter a day on climate change, either to politicians or to print media (lacking a TV and not listening to the radio, I was poorly equipped to write...
View ArticleDon't Date Denialists! — Relationship Advice From The Climate Letter Project...
The Climate Letter Project has entered its fourth year. Every damn day, I write a Letter to the Editor on climate change. I'm now up to somewhere over 1,140 letters. Yay, me. A considerable number...
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