I’ve been reading Daniel J. Levitin’s stimulating book, The World in Six Songs. How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, in which he explores how we co-evolved with the music we make. He comes up with six categories of song: Friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love. These songs, he says, have been sung for [...]
I still haven’t received my ballot from D.C., so I may have to vote by emergency write-in ballot, which was made possible by Democrats Abroad and the site they created, Vote from Abroad.
Election Party Munich
Hosted by: Democrats Abroad
When: Tuesday, 4 November 2008, dinner 7-10pm
How much: €10 entrance plus menu
Where: Busching-Garten am Böhmerwaldplatz
Register: vicepresident@munichskiclub.com
Space limited to [...]
Things are changing. I used to have a very regular schedule connected to weekly classes that allowed me to organize myself. It was Monday? OK, so I had my MVHS evening classes – that was a regular slot for about 5 years – and one, two or three one-to-one clients during the day, who would [...]
Here the two candidates are, battling for the presidency, and they can joke about all of it. It’s the ultimate test. Listen to them roast each other at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner on 16 October 2008:
“Can you sense it? Do you feel the deep tingle? Because amid the fiscal meltdown and Obama’s stunning poll numbers and the stress of the election, this staggering fact: George W. Bush is nearly done. He will soon be gone forever, America’s most spectacularly incompetent footnote, the oily residue left on the pavement after his [...]
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