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Big news, gang.Lee Mendelson Film Productions has made good on its promise to deliver another of Vince Guaraldi's iconic Peanuts soundtracks.Their announcement went live earlier today:Available for the first time ever!Vince Guaraldi’s complete soundtrack for 1969's It Was a Short Summer, Charlie BrownLimited release in celebration of the special's 55th anniversaryAvailable exclusively on "Camp Green" Vinyl (12-inch, 45 RPM) for Record Store Day, April 20th “This entire score is can’t-be-played-often-enough …

Sometimes it is necessary to lift your eyes from the written words and try to see what Goethe saw. Goethe has been characterized as an "Augenmensch." As Richie Robertson has written: "The German language distinguishes Augenmenschen (eye-people) and Ohrenmenschen (ear-people). Although Goethe appreciated music, and was a competent pianist, he was emphatically an Augenmensch. He was also from an early age familiar with painters." So it was that, as I …

Concerto For Cello And Orchestra In E Minor, Op. 85 - I. Adagio. Moderato (excerpt) 3:42Sisters 3:36Suite No. 2 In B Minor For Flute & Strings, Bwv 1067 - I. Overture 1:27The Farmhouse 2:59The Holiday Song 1:08The Hospital 1:01A Day On A Beach 3:56Concerto For Cello And Orchestra In E Minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio - Moderato 8:41Concerto For Cello And Orchestra In E Minor, Op. 85: Ii. Lento - …

This is an excerpt from the last chapter of GOOD VIBES ONLY. It zooms in on Marina Peterson’s Atmospheric Noise and Eric A. Stanley’s Atmospheres of Violence to examine how critical phenomenology can contribute to a critical analysis of the...

I’ve been playing with paper. I had this question: what if you rolled up some paper into a coil, would it look like the rings in a cut log? And it was late, and I couldn’t sleep no matter how... Read More ›

Trying Markdown code indicators in my post title, not because I want it to convert, but because I am curious if people will ping me to tell me it broke their RSS readers. Oh, and so it converts to code when pasted into your GitHub issues. ARIA note Role A section whose content is parenthetic or ancillary to the main content of the resource. ARIA 1.2 note The note role …

Here’s how you want to set your margins on your game to make sure it’s profitable. You’ll want to use a spreadsheet to keep track of some of this stuff. Spreadsheet maintenance is a big part about figuring out your business. It’s like a sketchbook for numbers, so learn to have fun with it. So let’s start with this: your ideal profit margin is 10x. That means you set your …

My podcast producer recently turned me onto a show called Acquired, which features its co-hosts, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, diving deep into the backstories of well-known brands and companies, from Porsche and Nike, to Amazon and Nintendo. It turns out I was late to this party. In the eight years since Acquired was originally launched, it has grown into a huge hit. The show now serves more than 200,000 …

Powerhouse comedian Chris Farley (February 15, 1964 - December 18, 1997) of Saturday Night Live and Second City Chicago fame has been gone a long time but still makes this writer laugh out loud.Especially noteworthy: the Schiller Visions decaf coffee crystals sketch. . . No decaf for Chris!With apologies to Tony Robbins, Matt Foley is by far my favorite motivational speaker! A key assist on the following sketch, featuring Chris' …

The release of @manton’s new notes app got me thinking about the icons for these different companion apps, and how they might look if they were designed to appear more like a family.Too closely related? Possibly, but there’s something in this, I think.

Two weeks ago I asked the question again about What Rye should be. There has been one thing that I have not publicly shared before and that is that ever since Rye exists I have also been talking to Charlie Marsh about Python packaging and Python tooling. It turns out that we had some shared ideas of what an ideal Python tooling landscape would look like. That has lead to …

I find myself asking that question a lot these days. Another question I've been asking myself a lot is, what the hell am I going to write in this post? I've tried a few things in the days leading up to this (timed) post, and to be honest they all, upon rereading, sound like I'm some combination of coming apart at the seams, in dire need of a vacation in …

Continuing from the previous post, we have a website for the conference now, and you can now register for the conference. We are planning to have two poster sessions, and we might be able to offer some financial support for people who are presenting posters. We will prioritise early career researchers, and given the budget limitations we might not accept all poster submissions. Continue reading...

I thought these guys were dead. But there they were, large as life in the Bourke Street Mall on Valentine’s Day – which probably explains the balloons. Why? Honestly I don’t know, but the characters went way beyond the originals after the franchise was sold off in 2021 – almost to ridiculous extremes. Anybody want to buy a Dumb Ways NFT? (Though even this 2014 life insurance ad from Canada …

An anti-Valentine’s Day book now, Ovid’s Heroides (25-16 BCE, somewhere in there), a collection of fictional letters in verse written by mythical heroines to their no-good boyfriends and husbands. Many end in suicide. Dido castigating Aeneas, Phaedra mourning Hippolytus, spurned Sappho jumping off a cliff. Although strictly speaking written as letters, many of the poems edge close to monologues and interiority, thus their large influence on the European novel and …