William Heise | July 31, 2010
I don’t think so, but I found this article, entitled “Will Washington’s Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?,” on the Internet today. The article is filled with anecdotal evidence that we may be heading towards a future that only a new American Revolution can correct: The Wall Street Journal’s steadfast Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that Barack [...]
William Heise | July 27, 2010
Found this on the web today. It is an exchange between Pat Buchanan and Zbigniew Brzezinski on the Morning Joe program on MSNBC. Buchanan is trying to articulate a point about the complicated political atmosphere in America today, and Brzezinski credits this to a return of a ‘national malaise’ to American politics. The Old Malaise [...]
William Heise | July 26, 2010
There are several reasons I prefer the 80s over the 70s. Perhaps the most important was that I missed the high point of the 80s electronic music. This was on account of my having lived through the 70s, with its sappy music. I was paying attention in the 70s. But by the 80s, I dropped [...]
William Heise | July 21, 2010
Busy, busy, busy this week. No time to write much. I was researching what I intended to write about this week, but I ran out of time. In the course of my research, I found an article about gamelan music. I don’t know much about gamelan music, and I’m sure this is a bastardized version, [...]
William Heise | July 12, 2010
So I’ve been meaning to get around to my defense of the 80s over the 70s as a great era of musical innovation, so here goes. I’ll start out with my experience in college. The 60s and 70s were great, and their influences endure (see my post on Higher, which reworks very old and respectable [...]
William Heise | July 11, 2010
This just in: they have found King Arthur’s Round Table. Silly me. I had always thought that it was just a myth, but world-renowned King Arthur expert Chris Gidlow, who’s written a book entitled The Reign of Arthur, said: “The first accounts of the Round Table show that it was nothing like a dining table [...]
William Heise | July 11, 2010
Okay, let’s review. Here’s how I look at art. The viewer starts out with a Status Quo (that’s ‘the way things are now,’ for the less Latin inclined). But the clever artist has identified a conflict in the Status Quo. The introduction of conflict into the previously untroubled world of the Status Quo means that [...]
William Heise | July 10, 2010
I found this on the the Internet today. It’s a question to Michael Berube, future President of the MLA (the organization for bigwigs in language and literature) and author of a book about the sad, sad state of the job market, Employment of English, about whether he or she should go to graduate school or [...]
William Heise | July 8, 2010
William Heise | July 6, 2010
…and I’m still traumatized. The good stuff starts at 0:55 and continues through 1:20 or so. What was wrong with my teachers?
