Monthly Archives: October 2006

Oh, it’s on

Posted on Monday, 30 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Leta shows a complete lack of musical discernment.

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Blue roses

Posted on Sunday, 29 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Michelle and I met early at the theater yesterday to run our scene a few times before class. The Woolly Mammoth classroom was in use, so we camped out in the lobby to work the section of the Gentleman Caller … Continue reading →

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Washington Ballet mixed bill

Posted on Sunday, 29 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Sona Kharatian shines in the third of the duets in Jerome Robbins’ In the Night, the stormy and dramatic dance of the three. Robbins’ lyrical piece, set on Chopin piano nocturnes, is put together with simple materials, assembled masterfully. Artistic … Continue reading →

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What does the O stand for?

Posted on Friday, 27 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Via wood s lot, Todd McEwen deconstructs Cary Grant’s suit in North by Northwest: This is what’s ingenious about this picture, at least as far as the SUIT goes—Cary’s able to travel all over the country in just this one … Continue reading →

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Sniff

Posted on Wednesday, 25 October 2006 by David Gorsline

That metallic smell you sense after handling iron or copper isn’t the odor of the metal, according to research by Dietmar Glindemann of the University of Leipzig. Rather, it’s from aldehydes and ketones formed from compounds in your own skin … Continue reading →

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You know who you are

Posted on Wednesday, 25 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Lore Sjöberg sets up his MySpace page. MySpace makes it easy to upload your music, it makes it easy to promote your band, and it makes it easy to embed music into your page so that everyone has to listen … Continue reading →

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Return to text

Posted on Sunday, 22 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Hey, wow, I was paging through the annual report of my local chapter of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, and halfway back, before the thank-you boards for big-bucks contributors and the pictures from the annual fundraiser, I read that … Continue reading →

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Not unexpected

Posted on Thursday, 19 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Lisa Rein reports: The months-long debate over whether to build a Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport below ground through Tysons Corner has pushed the construction schedule back about a year, state officials said yesterday. Groundbreaking is now projected for … Continue reading →

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Finally, he makes sense

Posted on Wednesday, 18 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Via The Morning News, the Nietzsche Family Circus.

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There, but for the grace…

Posted on Tuesday, 17 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Via Monkey Bites, Gary Anthes reports the results of a Computerworld survey of IT managers at 352 companies. The short answer: COBOL is still with us: 62% of the respondents reported that they actively use Cobol. Of those, three quarters … Continue reading →

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Posted on Monday, 16 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Catalyst Theater Company brings Bertolt Brecht’s chilling satire of the early career of Adolf Hitler to the friendly confines of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Written in exile from Germany while World War II still burned, Arturo Ui imagines Hitler … Continue reading →

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Supersize my strip

Posted on Monday, 16 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Via Bookslut, Chris Ware’s recent serial, the magnificent Building Stories, is being archived online by The Independent.

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Continue

Posted on Thursday, 12 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Via Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard, David R. Tribble annotates Edsger Dijkstra’s “Go To Statement Considered Harmful.” Dijkstra seems to imply that iterative looping (inductive) statements are intellectually harder to grasp than recursion, which is the kind of thing only a mathematician … Continue reading →

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A leitmotiv

Posted on Tuesday, 10 October 2006 by David Gorsline

So I’m working my way through Don DeLillo’s Underworld, and the Fred F. French Building keeps making recurring appearances along with the atomic bombs and piles of garbage and various movies and Bobby Thomson’s home run. And I asked, “Who … Continue reading →

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Enough, already

Posted on Tuesday, 10 October 2006 by David Gorsline

Via The Morning News, Karen Karbo has some suggestions for surviving school fund-raising season. Season, heck: it’s year-round around here. It’s to the point that I dread running the Saturday afternoon gauntlet of kids at the supermarket entrance. I’ve still … Continue reading →

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