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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Counting rules
The editors of Nature come out in support of abandoning Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the primary measure of social development and economic wealth: …GDP is known to be flawed as an indicator. For example, a developing country can accelerate … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and Business
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Upcoming: 22
CATF’s 2010 season is available for early-bird subscribers from previous seasons. No Blessing nor Dresser, but Lee Sellars! The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show, book and lyrics by Max Baker, music by Lee Sellars (world premiere) Inana by Michele … Continue reading
Posted in Theater
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Upcoming: 21
Another office building in Crystal City gets an arts-event invasion (à la Artomatic). This time it’s a March-long happening called G40: The Summit. Who knows? Could be great, could be…
Posted in Art and Architecture, Local News
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I will always remember
Happy birthday, Michael. (Listen to episode 17.)
Posted in Happy Birthday
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Heavy
He sighed heavily, and as if in sympathy the smoldering log also sighed. And immediately Okonkwo’s eyes were opened and he saw the whole matter clearly. Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. He sighed again, deeply. —Chinua Achebe, Things Fall … Continue reading
Posted in Quotable
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Four Mile Run
With much schedule shuffling as a result of the recent snow disruption, we finally got out for our second field trip for winter tree ID, to a couple of spots along Four Mile Run. Proving that you don’t need a … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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Hotel Cassiopeia
Fourth wall-breaking opens this production of Charles Mee’s one act on the life and works of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell, a man who found both sides of the picture post card equally interesting. Preceding Wilderesque self-introductions, the cast solicits donations … Continue reading
Silver Line progress report: 10
Greater Greater Washington critiques two proposed maps of Metro expanded by Silver Line service. The new drawing on the table, prepared by Cameron Booth, is a little too Vignelli for my taste.
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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On deck: 4
Yes, this is what I’m doing instead of a more constructive use of my leisure time, like preparing for next week’s auditions: snapping pix of my bookshelves. I’m saving the Jonathan Kern as a memento until my onsite gig wraps … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
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A simple ramp
In an excellent post, Matt Johnson explains what happened after Friday’s White Flint-bound Red Line train found itself on the pocket track just beyond Farragut North, how the electromechanical safety systems did the job they were designed to do, and … Continue reading
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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To be annotated
Via languagehat, 2,187 words in 243 end-stopped lines from Anne Tardos in the Ashberyesque “Nine,” with a whiff of Larry Shue’s Charlie Baker: Yentsia bakoondy eeleck, ta-dee-doo-dah, bentsey la cozy fen-fen. Bit baloon timi zin zah, timi zin zah, zimbudah.
Posted in Poetry
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
wood s lot reminds us that it is Gerhard Richter’s birthday.
Posted in Happy Birthday
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But the parkways are clear of trucks
Via Arts & Letters Daily, delicious curmudgeonliness from Charles Petersen: Mark Zuckerberg as the Robert Moses of the internet: As Facebook expanded from colleges to the rest of the public, always retaining tight control over how every page appeared, the … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances
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How would Elizabeth take this?
A well-packed path leads past the partly iced-over lake to the shops. The Safeway and CVS are open, the Subway and Dinner Zen are not. No New York Times to be found at any location. South Lakes Drive is showing … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
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Ya hadda be there
Overnight drifting blew the stack of snow along my fence rail into this curving drapery (distracting mulberry twigs in the foreground for scale). Alas, it didn’t persist long in the morning sun. I hope the holly does better. You can … Continue reading
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