BillHeise | November 30, 2011
The Music Man is my favorite musical from my childhood. It came out the year I was born, and when I was very young, my parents shipped me off the the library, where they played movies for kiddies so that parents could have an hour off. I love this movie, but 25 years ago, I [...]
BillHeise | November 7, 2010
It seems clear that Obama’s political education has come through Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, so I bought a copy and started reading. Written in the late sixties and early seventies, it’s a book providing a short course in change for people who want to carry out a program of practical reform in the ‘real [...]
BillHeise | October 27, 2010
I have fairly pedestrian tastes in literature. William Shakespeare is my favorite poet of all time, as well as my favorite dramatist. James Joyce is my favorite novelist. Most every aspect of the modern novel passes through Joyce, and this means that the greatest strengths as well as the greatest weaknesses that have appeared in [...]
BillHeise | October 15, 2010
One of the most consistent things I’ve done on my blog is to write each week about What I’m Listening to This Week. No one cares what I’m listening to this (or any) week, but I continue to do it because it’s fun, and blogging should be fun. On the other hand, I started to [...]
BillHeise | May 8, 2010
Most Americans believe that equal distribution of resources is the natural state of affairs. When resources are placed in the hands of the few, then we want to redistribute them in a more equitable manner. In this case, nature and human nature have a common source. Nature distributes resources equally and man, though his corrupt [...]
BillHeise | April 19, 2010
As usual, I am late.I intended to write and publish my second book review several Fridays ago. However, events (read fate) intervened, and I’ve only got around to it today. I will try to do better in the following weeks. My Approach to Book Reviews I found Ezra Klein’s article called “My favorite books—or not” [...]
BillHeise | March 18, 2010
As I said in my previous post, I’m planning on venturing out my safe and secure space of talking about music, which, it is held, is a matter of individual taste and conscience. As I also said in my previous post the world of books is generally held to express a greater purpose. They connect [...]
BillHeise | March 18, 2010
I’ve decided that I’m going to try to write a series of book reviews on my blog, just as I have been posting “What I Am Listening to This Week” for over a year. My plan is to write a book review week for a hundred weeks. This is probably too ambitious, but we’ll see. [...]
