I did not know Keats was a doctor! Too bad he lived in the era before the understanding of bateriology - he could have saved himself!
Sure, but germ theory is so much less poetic that bleeding some wan, fainting, patient to release bad humours.
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Trudy Booth - Dec 16, 2009 11:02:56 am PST #2159 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Hayden - Dec 16, 2009 11:04:30 am PST #2160 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Flea: nice! Do you know who her dissertation advisor is?
flea - Dec 16, 2009 11:06:14 am PST #2161 of 6436
information libertarian
Peter G. Filene: [link]
Hayden - Dec 16, 2009 6:58:51 pm PST #2162 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Thanks! Don't know him, though. Awesome topic.
Fiona - Dec 17, 2009 3:01:24 am PST #2163 of 6436
Brian Cox used to be in D:Ream, the 90s northern Irish dance band (famous for "Things Can Only Get Better"). He has a PhD and quite a high profile in Britain for his popularisation of science.
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2009 4:19:57 am PST #2164 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Slate on the 25th anniversary of The Replacements' Let it Be....
This past October was the 25th anniversary of the best rock album you don't own. Let It Be, the third full-length record by the now long-defunct Minnesota quartet the Replacements, was released at the tail end of 1984, a miraculous year, looking back on it, in music history. That year saw the dawn of the global pop mega-star. Madonna (Like a Virgin), Michael Jackson (John Landis' video for "Thriller" was released in December '83 and played on loop for the following calendar year), and Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.) gave fledgling rock 'n' roll bands a new and coherent sense of what they didn't want to be when they grew up. In a telling shift in nomenclature, something called "punk" or "post-punk" became "alternative," and one hardly had to ask "To what?" The music was aimed at a fan base tuning out MTV, dialing in to college radio, and getting its hands stamped at shows in rec centers and converted lunch halls. The trade-off was breadth of audience for intensity of devotion. In 1984 alone, in quick succession, the hungry cognoscenti got Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minutemen, Meat Puppets II, Husker Du's Zen Arcade, the Smiths' debut album, and R.E.M.'s Reckoning.
Let It Be is arguably the finest of the lot, and also the decade....
Interesting article, but of course I gotta take exception to "the best rock album you don't own."
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2009 5:30:12 am PST #2165 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just listened to Let it Be and am now listening to Tim.
So, what's the best Replacements album? I'd rank Tim slightly ahead of Let it Be. And then Hootenanny, with Pleased to Meet Me right behind....
DavidS - Dec 17, 2009 6:23:47 am PST #2166 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Let It Be is their most Replacements-like album, and I think it has their definitive high points -- "Androgynous," "Answering Machine," "I Will Dare." But it's also more uneven and has some dopier songs. Tim is stronger on a track to track basis and I listen to it more often.
But I think Zen Arcade, Reckoning, The Smiths and Meat Pups II are all better albums.
sumi - Dec 17, 2009 6:35:27 am PST #2167 of 6436
Art Crawl!!!
I Love Let it Be.
Also: Hootenanny.
It's an irrational thing.
Fred Pete - Dec 17, 2009 6:44:07 am PST #2168 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
Peter G. Filene
Not Dr. Kasson? He was the pop culture guy when I was there. Of course, that was mumblety-mumble years ago.
And while he didn't get a Ph.D. out of it, my favorite bit of rock musician-education trivia is that Mick Jagger studied at the London School of Economics.