Byzantium's Shores
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| Blog Name: | Byzantium's Shores |
| Url: | http://byzantiumshores.blogspot.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | SF and Fantasy, Music, Everything |
| Description: | "The occasional meditations of an unrepentant dreamer": moving through life armed only with my laptop under my arms, my ten-in-one screwdriver in my pocket, and six U-Haul trucks filled with books, CDs, and DVDs. It's a tie-dyed world: boom de yada! |
| Popularity: | 29 Followers |
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Sentential Links #188
Linkage of the week::: Very few phrases fill me with dread and/or irritation as the response, "Oh, it's EASY!" And it bugs me on two separate but related levels.:: I really do believe that there are blessings in ALL my experiences. Some float right up to the surface, like those breaching whales and leaping dolphins. Others are harder to identify. But if I look deep, they are always there.:: Walking into the San
Linkage of the week::: Very few phrases fill me with dread and/or irritation as the response, "Oh, it's EASY!" And it bugs me on two separate but related levels.:: I really do believe that there are blessings in ALL my experiences. Some float right up to the surface, like those breaching whales and leaping dolphins. Others are harder to identify. But if I look deep, they are always there.:: Walking into the San
Under Heaven: the cover revealed!
Via BrightWeavings.com, I see that the cover art for the forthcoming new novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven, has been revealed. Here's what American and Canadian readers will see:The British art can be seen
Via BrightWeavings.com, I see that the cover art for the forthcoming new novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven, has been revealed. Here's what American and Canadian readers will see:The British art can be seen
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
Oddities abound!:: Jellyfish of unusual size? I don't believe they exist.:: "Hey Jude", flowcharted.:: Ever want to combine a dead-blow hammer with a mouse sander? No? Well, maybe they won't make one, then. (They actually weren't, anyhow.)More next week!
Oddities abound!:: Jellyfish of unusual size? I don't believe they exist.:: "Hey Jude", flowcharted.:: Ever want to combine a dead-blow hammer with a mouse sander? No? Well, maybe they won't make one, then. (They actually weren't, anyhow.)More next week!
Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil (III)
I'm not the biggest Stephen King fan in the world. I find that he can be hit or miss, which is probably to be expected of a writer so prolific as he. I haven't read everything of his; not even close. I've read some stuff of his that I liked a good amount (Salem's Lot), som
I'm not the biggest Stephen King fan in the world. I find that he can be hit or miss, which is probably to be expected of a writer so prolific as he. I haven't read everything of his; not even close. I've read some stuff of his that I liked a good amount (Salem's Lot), som
Something for Thursday
Nettl used this the other day, and it's sufficiently good for me to pass on to you all. Here's the first movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto:This has been one of my favorite concerted works -- in fact, one of my favorite works, period -- ever since I first heard it many years ago. Some of the things in this movement that always strike me are its lack of an introduction (the soloist comes in, playing the main melody of the movement, in the second bar), the placement of the cadenza in the middle of the movement instead of toward the end, and one of my ver
Nettl used this the other day, and it's sufficiently good for me to pass on to you all. Here's the first movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto:This has been one of my favorite concerted works -- in fact, one of my favorite works, period -- ever since I first heard it many years ago. Some of the things in this movement that always strike me are its lack of an introduction (the soloist comes in, playing the main melody of the movement, in the second bar), the placement of the cadenza in the middle of the movement instead of toward the end, and one of my ver
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