Friday, May 28, 2004


Tantric Sex
You can read a serious-faced, scholarly discussion about Tantra here. (Link thanks to ALD, here.) It's an interesting piece, I... posted by Michael at May 28, 2004 | perma-link | (4) comments

Underneath It All
I grew up in a sweet, provincial, middle-class, small-town/suburb-ish, vanilla-American part of the world. Bicycles, baseball, Boy Scouts, cheerleaders; parents... posted by Michael at May 28, 2004 | perma-link | (18) comments

Wednesday, May 26, 2004


Making Music
Morton Subotnick's CD-ROMs Making Music (here) and Making More Music (here) are brilliant music-composition programs for kids that many adults... posted by Michael at May 26, 2004 | perma-link | (2) comments

"Ulysses" on Audio
I notice that 100th anniversary of Bloomsday approaches. Bloomsday, for those who dodged classes on James Joyce, is the name... posted by Michael at May 26, 2004 | perma-link | (38) comments

Tuesday, May 25, 2004


Proportional Representation?
The New York Times' Robin Pogrebin reports here that there are surprisingly few blacks on the boards of a lot... posted by Michael at May 25, 2004 | perma-link | (25) comments

Saturday, May 22, 2004


One Blowhard
Visitors may have noticed that postings from Friedrich von Blowhard have been sparse in the past few weeks. In fact,... posted by Michael at May 22, 2004 | perma-link | (30) comments

Friday, May 21, 2004


Informal Arrangements
Dear Friedrich -- I wrote something in response to a comment by JC and wound up feeling pretty pleased with... posted by Michael at May 21, 2004 | perma-link | (15) comments

Thursday, May 20, 2004


Food Notes
Dear Friedrich -- * Low-carb lookout: I notice that sales of bread and orange juice are both 'way down. (Check... posted by Michael at May 20, 2004 | perma-link | (21) comments

Wednesday, May 19, 2004


Elsewhere
Dear Friedrich -- * John Kerry's daughter Alexandra seems determined to give the Bush girls a run for the wild-child... posted by Michael at May 19, 2004 | perma-link | (7) comments

Email Humor -- Retrosexuals
Dear Friedrich -- Apologies for slow, er, nonexistent posting in recent days. I had my first real writing assignment in... posted by Michael at May 19, 2004 | perma-link | (24) comments

Saturday, May 15, 2004


1000 Words -- "Carmilla"
Dear Friedrich -- It's been called to my attention more than a few times that I often write postings that... posted by Michael at May 15, 2004 | perma-link | (42) comments

Cheapo DVDs
Dear Friedrich -- Have you bought many DVDs? I haven't: who needs more things? But the prices have dropped so... posted by Michael at May 15, 2004 | perma-link | (10) comments

Thursday, May 13, 2004


"The Dreamers," the novel
Dear Friedrich -- Remember my conversation with TurboKitty about the recent Bertolucci movie The Dreamers? (The posting is here.) The... posted by Michael at May 13, 2004 | perma-link | (9) comments

Elsewhere
Dear Friedrich -- * I loved snooping around Alex Chun's website, here. Alex, a devotee of the work of pin-up... posted by Michael at May 13, 2004 | perma-link | (8) comments

New-Urb Elsewhere
Dear Friedrich -- Fun Web rumblings on the New Urbanism front. * John Massengale (here) has dug up a report... posted by Michael at May 13, 2004 | perma-link | (0) comments

Wednesday, May 12, 2004


Salingaros on Tschumi -- The Response
I hope visitors have taken the opportunity to read Nikos Salingaros' eight-part essay about the work of the deconstructivist theorist... posted by Michael at May 12, 2004 | perma-link | (4) comments

Froggytime 2 -- Frenchwomen
Dear Friedrich -- One of the great Western cultural creations, IMHO, is The Frenchwoman. What an archetype: poised, funky, individual,... posted by Michael at May 12, 2004 | perma-link | (6) comments

Monday, May 10, 2004


Froggytime
Dear Friedrich -- I'm having another one of my Froggy moments -- a stretch when, without having consciously intended it,... posted by Michael at May 10, 2004 | perma-link | (22) comments

How Modern Painting Became A Secular Religion
Michael: In your post, Religious Needs -- What To Do About 'Em?, you talk about the tendency over the past... posted by Friedrich at May 10, 2004 | perma-link | (6) comments

Saturday, May 8, 2004


Religious Needs -- What To Do About 'Em?
Dear Friedrich -- I realized this morning that I walk around with a small and perhaps unjustifiable theory. Well, I... posted by Michael at May 8, 2004 | perma-link | (40) comments

Friday, May 7, 2004


Meeting Toni Bentley
Dear Friedrich -- I posted here and here about my enthusiasm for the writing of the ballerina-turned-author Toni Bentley. Lucky... posted by Michael at May 7, 2004 | perma-link | (6) comments

Things They Don’t Tell You About Modern Art
Michael: In my wanderings around the Internet I came across a fascinating web page the other day. It’s on the... posted by Friedrich at May 7, 2004 | perma-link | (10) comments

Thursday, May 6, 2004


The WTC and Free Enterprise
Dear Friedrich -- As you've probably read, Larry Silverstein, the tycoon behind the World Trade Center, has lost his bid... posted by Michael at May 6, 2004 | perma-link | (12) comments

Rightie Elsewhere
Dear Friedrich -- I'm often surprised by how little interest lefties show in learning about rightie-ism. Many seem completely content... posted by Michael at May 6, 2004 | perma-link | (11) comments

Wednesday, May 5, 2004


Women and Solitaire
Dear Friedrich -- Does your wife love playing solitaire? My Wife loves Spider Solitaire, my sister loves Freecell, a niece... posted by Michael at May 5, 2004 | perma-link | (18) comments

Monday, May 3, 2004


Ira Levin Adds Value
Dear Friedrich -- Have you read any of the novels of Ira Levin? He's best-known as the author of the... posted by Michael at May 3, 2004 | perma-link | (47) comments

Sunday, May 2, 2004


The Sublime
Michael: I’m going to be 50 in a month or so, and that may account for a little phenomenon that... posted by Friedrich at May 2, 2004 | perma-link | (18) comments