I refuse to force this ridiculous meme onto others but because people I respect have asked: 1. I am a Jewish intellectual from Northern California 2. There were three times in my life when I genuinely thought I was going to die. In retrospect, the first time I was just being overly dramatic — a [...]
I have been listening to this piece (and the string quartet from which it’s been extracted) for a month now. You should pay a buck and listen to it too if, and only if, you want to listen to really really ravishingly beautiful music: Musica Celestis for String Orchestra is available on “iTunes”:http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=135478800&id=135478574&s=143441 and “eMusic”:http://www.emusic.com/downloads/emp/song/10915884/14013152.emp?gb=lm. [...]
I have a new column on “The Flaws of Facebook”:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/02/03/golub up at Inside Higher Ed, which is mostly about the reason that I don’t like to use Facebook.