No love for Rafi??? He's so awesome!
The choreography for the Fifi tune is wonderfully 20-30s esque in part from what I've seen, I'm looking forward to the performance. The teacher has a solid jazz and tap background as well.
That one-two beat does give it a bit of a klezmoid feel but that's hardly unique to klezmer. And there's that clarinet-sounding doodle early on.
Oh bigly yay, and if my tap teacher doesn't use it I'll recommend it. Thanks.
clew! You probably already know about these, but just in case I think you'd enjoy the "ballet evolved" series of videos posted by the (UK) Royal Ballet, this link should get you to them: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=auDNcfK0Wcs
But I'm on my phone per usual so that may not get you to all of them. Lots of great stuff re the material influences on dance as it evolved through the ballet tradition, with charming demos.
Oh thanks dairy queen. Now walking around the dining room counter-rotating my wrists. Also suspecting the baroque slight rise made it right through the 19thc under the protection of Polish dance teachers. (It is a solid belief of the Scandic trad community here that the Polish officers mostly made their livings as dance teachers for a couple of generations, and I just ran across one in a George Eliot story. I will raise a glass to the vanished mustachios.)
While we're boring everyone else, what would you do to preserve a bumper crop of Asian pears, each with a small bite out of it on the sunny haunch?
I'm not really into Asian Pears (sounds like your garden marauder isn't either but has a really short memory) but I'd probably go for pickling.
What is ruining your fruit? And can you eat it instead?
We think the chipmunks are just taking the sweetest bite out of each one. Not hard to work around the tidy little bites, but we can't take it to a food bank, and we don't have pigs this year. Neighbor horses are getting pretty spoiled.
Maybe something like quince paste. And at least pickling is mostly cool.
This sounds like what the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack would have sounded like if the show had been made by Indians instead of Japanese people.
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Why is it when Unfogged comments go off topic the result is almost always good and often quite wonderful but when CT comments go off topic, and they almost always do, the result is almost always complete and utter shit.
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Because we don't have any Australians. Australians are generally perfectly nice people but online they turn into humorless prats.
Australians are generally perfectly nice people but online and on the sports field they turn into humorless prats.
FTFY. CT should assign Quiggin to keep the rest of them in line.
Don't know anything about the rest of it but I'm inhaling all that sidestream smoke and loving it.
So happy to bring you please, biohazard!
OT bleg: my mom and a friend are planning a road trip next week from Boston to Virginia Beach. They're looking for stops along the way of particular beauty, architectural interest, or tastiness. They want to stay within 75 miles of the coast and they've both lived on the East Coast for decades (Providence and Boston) so they don't need to hit the big tourist stops. Any suggestions?
14: No one here thinks any front-page poster stole, or otherwise appropriated, an academic position or book contract from them. Also, very low commenter-to-libertarian-commenter ratio.
We don't have many front pagers with academic positions or book contracts. I suppose more of them could try.
I'm having trouble just leaving my apartment on weekends unless I have some kind of family visit planned, which I guess is often enough that I don't feel too much like a shut-in, yet. I might start hiking again if the weather ever cools. Or buy a bike if I ever have savings.
Although nothing in 23 precludes me writing a book, I guess.
14: No one here thinks any front-page poster stole, or otherwise appropriated, an academic position or book contract from them.
Whaaaaaaat
Isn't that the sub- or super text to a lot of the droning, repetitive, bitterly resentful gibberish pettifogging at CT? Or has it changed so much in the last year or two?
All I know is never mention a certain country in Africa or else all sorts of tedious comments follow. But that's true here also.
I don't know! If there's a backstory of that kind I don't know it.
Above all else, the CT comments illustrate the great British concept of the "bore". This seems to be someone who spends 90% of his time alone with his thoughts, compiling them into a set of personal theories that he is eager to explain to people in depth on the rare occasions that someone talks to him. This person has no ability to process the statements of other people in real time, and thus conversations are purely a venue for his learned explanations. We have these people here in America too, but they tend to be paranoid or angry all the time. The British bore is truly boring because he is perfectly pleasant and nonthreatening.
Let's all write a book. Each of us separately. We can avoid Von Wafer's problems by making them shitty books.
Wait, is that guy with the Eastern Europe specialization and the two[?] phds who went to a country in Africa to teach still around?
Years ago, if this is the same person I remember, he had a blog, maybe still does, where he detailed his problems finding an academic job, which he attributed to the twin perils of academia: love for diversity and love for the left. I have no idea about his academic work, but I vaguely remember he didn't have teaching experience and he didn't seem uniquely persecuted among the many, many people who also did not land t-t jobs.
He used to comment at a bunch of history blogs, but I think he got to CT after I mostly stopped reading comments there. I think I learned he got a job in Africa from CT comments, though, not from his blog.
31 Realizing that may describe more than one guy. The one I know of has only the one PhD though, and comments not irregularly at LGM where he is frequently piled on for introducing irrelevant personal details.
I find him less funny now that he's less gung-ho pro-Ghana. It was awesome for a while how every conceivable subject could be turned into a lesson in the superiority of the Ghanan university system. But apparently being paid an ordinary civil servant's wage in a poor country actually kinda sucks.
It's not so bad in a relatively poor area of a wealthy county.
Also, I'm pretty sure you just tripped his google alert.
34 I liked him back when he was accusing a bunch of mostly anodyne liberals and slightly left of center commenters of being Stalinists on a regular basis (myself included, to be fair). That was always good for a laugh.
Yeah, it sounds like they pay shit there. He should come to Arrakis where the pay is much better.
36 Just don't repeat it three times while looking in the mirror and we should be ok.
I don't use mirrors or soap or shampoo or deodorant or a razor.
Huh, he apparently wrote two books before the phd. For whatever reason I thought he had one phd, wrote books, got another phd.
If he wrote two books, we could all write one each.