Archive for May, 2007

Five Televisions and Three Books

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Two quotes from an article about a secondhand bookstore in Kansas City which is burning books in protest at the decline of the industry. The quotes are from the two owners of the store.

“This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today,” Wayne told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch [...]

The Sound of Norman Mailer Punching Himself

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

At one point, Leslie Shatz, the sound designer, described Mailer’s perfectionist quest to capture the sound of a punch in the face. “Norman said, ‘The sounds of punches in movies are all phony,’ ” Shatz recalled. “He wanted me to record his own punches. He was a boxer, of course. So we were in my [...]

Did You Mean Music?

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

On a day off, I am strolling around the vast internetwork, looking and listening. I feel sorrow on finding that the wonderful guitar player Rod Poole was killed in his adopted home of Los Angeles last week. I have been listening to his masterpiece The Death Adder on and off since it was [...]

A Large Machine to Discover a Tiny Machine

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

The Large Hadron Collider

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