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Not a good week for me to write world-shattering blog posts. Maybe it’s trying to memorize an Emily Dickinson poem, but somehow I’m not thinking in paragraphs this week. —Warn me if I start peppering my posts with dashes—
So here, for your amusement/enlightenment, another set of links:
Donna sends this one from Inhabitat: The “Wing” Personal Portable Windmill
Poppysmatus found Garrison Keillor’s remembrance: Pavarotti wept for us
In the real world, if you discover that your wife is fooling around with somebody, you probably yell at her, slam the door and walk away — hey, she wants the baritone, let her have the baritone. Take a pill. Don’t pick up that knife, pal. Join our group, Ordinary Persons Enduring Relentless Adversity. We meet on Tuesday nights and talk about issues that otherwise might turn into a big aria.
The great tenor stood and sobbed in our behalf, all of us who don’t weep so much and when we do it isn’t particularly artistic. Men, for example. Women can weep with great expressive range and tone quality — when my wife weeps, it brings tears to my eyes, especially if I’m the cause — but with men, there’s no grandeur to it at all, just some groaning and precipitation and your face turns rubbery and you sit in a dark corner until it passes.
Mine is not a tragic life that I’m aware of, though a few months ago I was trapped next to a talkative drunk at a fundraising dinner party and thought seriously about poisoning his wine and watching him fall face-first into the crême brulée. The reelection of the Current Occupant was a tragedy but such a dull, predictable one, like driving your car into a swamp and getting stuck, that nobody could possibly sing about the pain of it all.
Eyewear also remembers Pavoratti:
Pavarotti was a great pop star, as significant as any other in the 1990s, reaching, literally, via TV, live performance, and hugely popular recordings, billions of fans and casual listeners won over by his apparently effortless command of operatic bravado. He performed with the two other tenors of his time, as The Three Tenors, The Muppets and U2. His singing of Nessun Dorma became the theme of the World Cup
Harry provides a link to Pruned for a look at NASA’s experiments in terraforming, Simulated Worlds (for some reason this lunar map reminds me of a bandanna handkerchief):
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