BillHeise | June 29, 2009
Okay, the first video is one of my favorite songs, but the video is bizarre, featuring people in life-sized plush animal costumes. So this would be the time to remind my faithful readers that I don’t often watch the videos themselves. Having said that, my wife walked in my office one day and found me [...]
BillHeise | June 22, 2009
This is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) coloratura arias in opera. If you aren’t familiar with coloratura, it starts out at 0:51 in the first video. It’s really hard to do, and that’s why every singer almost completely stops moving when they have to start singing the coloratura parts (see 2:05 – [...]
BillHeise | June 21, 2009
BillHeise | June 21, 2009
BillHeise | June 21, 2009
He wasn’t considered evil for selling cereal to boys and girls. That sugar bear was groovy and smooth.
BillHeise | June 19, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– I had put away my academic ambitions entirely devoted myself to building a business. I did this because academia was very difficult for me. Academics shared a dark sense of the world, and they [...]
BillHeise | June 19, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– Six months after I had my stroke, I was contacted by Joel Relihan asking me whether it was still okay to publish my article on the Menippean Boethius in the Middle Ages. I said [...]
BillHeise | June 16, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– I had dropped out of academia for the second time in my life. I had made huge gains in my field, where I pointed out that the development of allegory was influenced Aristotle and [...]
BillHeise | June 16, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– As I said before in this blog, I started out my dissertation thinking that I could write a short paper explaining the logic of Raison’s “demonstration of indemonstrables.” But over time I kept growing [...]
BillHeise | June 15, 2009
This is an article associated with the article “15 Memorable Books.” See the article for an explanation of this article. —– The culmination of my graduate school career turned out to be my reading of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. This was something I had always intended to address out of graduate school, but I [...]
