Blossom is the Cleveland Orchestra’s equivalent to the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood: the weekend venue during the summer, when the Orchestra plays in an open-air pavilion and the audience sprawls out on the surrounding lawn with their picnics. I don’t think New York City actually has an equivalent: the Philharmonic’s parks concerts aren’t as frequent [...]
A couple notes on the old Honda Civic:
I just changed the bulb for the right headlamp. I had noticed the low-beam wasn’t working back in late May, but hadn’t gotten around to changing the thing until now. I was careful not to drive this car at night, so it wasn’t that much of [...]
The pizzas from Friday ultimately came out sort of triangle shaped, because I wasn’t very good at shaping the dough into classically round pies. Some of the dough was also undercooked, because I wasn’t very good at making a uniform thickness. I suppose the two problems are related: they both concern rolling out [...]
History did not turn on its hinge yesterday. 7/7 will simply become another stanza in the litany of atrocities that go back to 3/11, to Bali, to 9/11 — when history did turn on its hinge and our perception of the world changed. It was London’s worst day since the Second World War, [...]
It seems to be Madrid again, but I feel closer to London than to Madrid, knowing some people there (friends and co-worker) and having visited.
I’m not sure if anything new needs to be said that wasn’t already said about Madrid. It’s still early, regardless.
News comes in slowly. I found out about the bombings [...]
I’m going to try making pizza later this week (Friday?), as part of the general yeast-bread making experiments over the past month. Here’s one blogger’s guide to doing this: BillyReisinger.com :: The Ridiculously Thorough Guide to Making Your Own Pizza.
I don’t have a pizza stone — I was thinking of going to Home Depot [...]
Here are the fireworks pics for Cleveland’s July 4th show.
The fireworks were shot from an area near the mouth of the Cuyohoga River, with the best viewing areas in the East Flats. Most spectators were camped out on the grassy slopes near the RTA station there, next to the vans from the radio station [...]
The world moves on: I’ve updated the blog software from version 1.2 to 1.5.1.3 in response to this security notice. PEAR’s XML module has also been updated to address the general issue.
In the meantime, various things will be broken/odd until I get the various pieces updated or rewritten, but the site’s overall functionality should [...]