I meant to blog on this a couple of weeks ago, when the LlamaButchers first pointed me to it.

Things I'm not ashamed to admit, but probably should be:

• I am a huge Neil Diamond fan, even if he has questionable politics.


• I played AD&D in High School. And still have the books. And dice. And miniatures.


• Barry Manilow? Musical genius (for his genre). Really. Just listen to Copacabana with an open mind.


• I know how to buy women's clothing. My wife's a knockout but is too modest to acknowledge it, so I occasionally have to buy her things to help her see herself the way I do.


• I know the derivation and meanings of the words "fannish" and "'dane."


• Despite the preceding sentence, I've never been to a "Con."


• I like the Yes album Talk.



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1 From a dating book I have: the definition of Romantic when listed in the personals-Owns extensive Barry Manilow collection.

Posted by: JB at May 22, 2004 08:51 AM (0gK4v)

2 all right, you shamed me into it. Talk isn't in the cd jukebox, so last night i popped it into one of the empty slots and relistened. still can't say i like it as much as the rest, though i do like it better than Union. my #1 son is a prog rock fan, so it was a nice variation for him. after that we put on the first half of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, which he also hadn't heard before. by the way, anyone with fast internet access should frequent auralmoon.com for excellent prog rock internet radio.

Posted by: chris at May 22, 2004 09:49 AM (zH1Gw)

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Timothy Sandefur has moved his Freespace blog off Blog*Spot to Typepad. Check out the spiffy new look.

Timothy brings a libertarian/Objectivist perspective to several subjects, but most eloquently to constitutional law, theory, and history.

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In case you haven't surfed over there recently, be sure to check out SFSignal's spiffy new look. Gone is the purple. Nice shades-of-blue color scheme going on there now.

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I'd like to welcome a couple of new sites to my blogrolls.

At Don McClane's Mixolydian Mode, you'll find daily music posts as well as links to Steven King's The Shining in 30 Seconds (reenacted by animated bunnies), a dissertation on meteorology in Tolkien, and classic analog synthesizers (which is how he found my site, apparently). Don has several other sites covering a large range of topics here.

The other newcomer is the Bookish Gardener, who was kind enough to take my side in the recent tete-a-tete (or is that "Kopf gegen Kopf?") over the lovely German language. Another lawyer eclecti-blogger, but with a focus on gardening (and music, and books, and family, and. . . you get the idea!)

Enjoy!

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Speaking of French duels, I hereby challenge Rob the Llamabutcher to one, for calling the lovely German language hideous. (Full disclosure: my undergraduate degree was in German).

Among the sung languages, certainly Latin is the most beautiful, but German has an earthy power to it, much like English. Just read Der Erlkoenig (The Elf-King), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and listen to a decent recording of Schubert's rendering of this poem.

If you have a child, I dare you to make it through the song without a tear in your eye.

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Professor Hall went searching for "Spacecraft" images on Google and found this, ahem, interesting, ahem, pic. (Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more). . .

Looks like it would make a decent background image for Ted's site banner, as he likes to keep his title art fresh.

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Looks like Steve and Rob are giving the Creator of Worlds a run for his money at humorous photoshopping. Just start here and scroll down.

Looks like they picked up a Vodka-lanche today, too. Good on them.

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Via Gravity Lens, a theme park in Florida where you will discover:

How awesome the world used to be and how it will be again very soon!

Dinosaurs in the Bible and history!

Dinosaurs alive today!

Amazing fossil discoveries. See them yourself!

Okilly dokilly, then.

I see that Timothy Sandefur has already covered this at Panda's Thumb.

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