Music of the gods

I’m going to a won­der­ful con­cert tomor­row night per­formed by friends of mine from Sydney, Kim and Heather. They are eth­nomusico­lo­gists fas­cin­ated with spir­itual ancient music. They were com­mis­sioned to recre­ate the orches­tra of the second temple...

One down

Brown has been replaced as the key co-ordin­ator for dis­aster relief. So much for doing “a heck of a job,” eh? I first read this as saying he’d been fired as head of FEMA. I’m still amazed he hasn’t been, given the ongo­ing ques­tions about arti­fi­cially...

More on the Katrina stuff

qamar posted two fas­cin­at­ing links:  1) a Kat­rina timeline which shows that Bush did indeed declare a Fed­eral emer­gency before Kat­rina made land­fall, but *then* went on to con­tinue his hol­i­day, which I still think is cal­lous; that...

On not being average

If you were as out­raged by Little Johnny Howard’s com­ments on what it means to be an aver­age Aus­tralian as I was, then go read this inspir­ing post by my friend sil­verblue on being pas­sion­ately exceptional. “I’m glad I’m not ‘aver­age’. I don’t want...