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Category Archives: Popular Culture
The Deplorables
It’s time for them to become the unconquerables.
[Saturday-morning update]
Roger Simon: The deplorables must cement control over the Republican Party.
The New Mad Left
Where did it come from?
The Expanse
An interesting interview on the challenges and rewards of making a physically accurate SF series.
Chuck Yeager
Homer Hickam remembers him.
A New Talent
I just discovered this young woman yesterday. This was recorded nine years ago, when she was fourteen years old, and had only been playing for two years.
Here’s something more recent.
Her technique is amazing, using lots of harmonics, and hitting the strings with both hands. She doesn’t look it, and you wouldn’t know by her name, but she’s Swedish.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s another very nice piece. Note the percussive effect of hitting the string with the backs of her fingers. It’s nice to see a young woman playing songs written decades before she was born.
[Update late afternoon]
OK, one more. This is the one that I discovered her with. Just amazing guitar work, recorded a couple months ago. The strength and precision of her fingers is incredible.
Bruce Herschensohn
RIP.
Both California and the nation would be better places if he, rather than Barbara Boxer, had ascended to the Senate in 1992.
Ellen Page
These are worse than Heinlein’s Crazy Years.
The UFO Phenomenon
Is it about to get real?