Here’s a musical offering for the season of Lent: my rendition of “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from Gluck’s 1762 opera, Orfeo ed Euridice. It was recorded in an Ash Wednesday service, on the same day Mel Gibson’s Lent-themed movie opened. Kindly try to ignore the fact that I’m about an eighth of a tone […]
Posted on March 13th, 2004 by Nils
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Oh yes. Christopher Buckley’s fictional man-about-town, Rick Renard, is back. Unfortunately, we can’t read about his latest misadventures among the rich and infamous until the April issue of The Atlantic comes out.
Posted on March 4th, 2004 by Nils
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I was standing at a downtown traffic light this morning when I noticed that the person standing next to me had a book under her arm. The title: Clinical Pharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple.
It’s comforting to know that publishers are doing their part to make sure that a medical degree is not out of reach for […]
Posted on March 3rd, 2004 by Nils
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