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June 30, 2005
I found out about this too late to get numbers 1 through 5, but the BBC is offering free downloads of Beethoven's Symphonies, as performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Get them here and hurry - 6 goes away on Monday. a
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I found out about this too late to get numbers 1 through 5, but the BBC is offering free downloads of Beethoven's Symphonies, as performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Get them here and hurry - 6 goes away on Monday. sunday sermonette
June 19, 2005
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering.
- Bertrand Russell
Book: "Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects", 1957 (p. vi)
(for the genesis of the Sunday Sermonette meme, see Majikthise and James Wolcott) hey, ann arbor bloggers
June 10, 2005
George told me it would be easiest to invite you all to our place through upcoming.org, and I believed him. So here's the invite info for our party:
martinis at mitten's
It doesn't look like there's anything else going on in town that night, so you have no excuse for not being there. And with the promise of free beer, how can you go wrong?
While I'm at it, come see CinemaSlam, too. dead russian composer meme
June 6, 2005
If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Sergei Rakhmaninov.I lived in the early Twentieth Century and was well known for my compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet I am melancholy despite this talent. My famous works include my nearly-impossible piano concerti.Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test being
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