Enjoying other people’s pilgrimages–Stu Savory is blogging a slow post-boat ride up through a bunch of fjords in Norway, up over the Arctic Circle to midnight sun. Great photos too…
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What would Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women have done with blogging? How about
I loved all those books, and now a project to invite “10 leading women bloggers and 10 broadway bloggers” to see Little Women the Musical has invited me to go see the show. Disclosure–I’m thrilled to have the chance to hang out with Judith Meskill and Mary Hodder and Nichelle Stephens and Pen-Elayne Riggs — and to meet Kaliya Hamlin, who organized this event and the musical’s blog. If you get your tickets from Orchard House they get a donation… |
Tags: Metablogging
If you ever go to Madrid, eat at Casa Lucio–everyone else does, including the Spanish king.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez had eaten lunch there on May 10, so when Frank was dragooned to sign their “golden book” that night, his page is right after another Nobel laureate. All the staff made much of us–the owner and his daughter came over and got their photographs taken with Frank–it’s no wonder that celebrities like to go there!
After we finished our dinner (about half-past midnight) and were making our way to the door, with Frank being introduced to various patrons and shaking their hands, we met a second entourage of young jet-set types arriving for dinner.
Frank and young Mr. JetSet were urged to shake hands with each other, which they duly did, both smiling with baffled but friendly amiability. As the two entourages drew them apart in their different directions, one of our Spanish friends asked, “Do you know who that was? That was the goalkeeper for Madrid Real!”
Madrid Real is the local soccer team, and I have used Google to guess that the name right after Frank’s in the golden book is Iker Casillas. And I’m guessing his bafflement about being introduced to Frank was at least as great as Frank’s at being introduced to him.
Of course, food is the real reason to go to Casa Lucio –and the English menu dutifully and honestly translates its local specialties … “gills of hake” … “fat capon” …. “Gills of hake” is a kind of gray soup with fish gills floating in it–but since four out of the nine people at our table ordered it, it probably tastes better than it looks or sounds…
Tags: Pilgrimages
Stockholm’s Grand Hotel played host to a record number of bodyguards when we were there in December, because the Israeli Nobel laureates arrived with a squadron of high-tech, mini-earphoned muscle–and then Jennifer Lopez showed up for a move premiere with her own complement of protectors.
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Laurie Duncan http://www.tuaw.com
Judith Meskill http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/
Elizabeth Speirs http://www.mediabistro.com
Mary Hodder http://www.napsterization.org
Liza Sabater http://www.cultuerkitchen.com
Suzy Conn http://www.blogwaybaby.com
Betsy Devine http://betsydevine.weblogger.com/
Chris Hampton http://www.uffish.com/
Nichelle Stephens http://www.blogsheroes.com/
Elayne Riggs http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/
Jen Bekman http://www.jenbekman.com
Andrew Horwitz http://www.culturebot.org/
Robert Diamond http://www.broadwayworld.com
| Laurie Duncan | http://www.tuaw.com |
| Judith Meskill | http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/ |
| Elizabeth Speirs | http://www.mediabistro.com |
| Mary Hodder | http://www.napsterization.org |
| Liza Sabater | http://www.cultuerkitchen.com |
| Suzy Conn | http://www.blogwaybaby.com |
| Betsy Devine | http://betsydevine.weblogger.com/ |
| Chris Hampton | http://www.uffish.com/ |
| Nichelle Stephens | http://www.blogsheroes.com/ |
| Elayne Riggs | http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/ |
| Jen Bekman | http://www.jenbekman.com |
| Andrew Horwitz | http://www.culturebot.org/ |
| Robert Diamond | http://www.broadwayworld.com |
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Excellent PR in 1551: the Spanish Emperor Carlos V in (removeable) armor triumphs over a naked Protestant in chains.* Humiliating a helpless enemy–is that OK, as long as our side is doing it? Rumors continue that US interrogators humiliate Muslim prisoners — even by defiling their Holy Book — and I think the US blogiverse should be more upset. So should the White House, which is instead trying to turn this into a non-story about Newsweek.
Hello world–it’s not 1551 now! * To prove the victim is devil-spawn, he’s got six toes. Our guide at Madrid’s Prado also showed us the hinges on Carlos’s armor. The patron couldn’t decide whether to show the hero classically naked or respectably clad, so both options were offered. Modern taste likes the latter–so Carlos is now naked only when his armor is getting cleaned. * * Neither Catholics nor Protestants in 1551 had managed to read the New Testament up to Luke vi, 26) — they were still stuck on the parts of the Bible where Jesus rages against abortion, homosexuals, and suggestive cheerleading, and urges his followers to “draw the sword” against unbelievers… |
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| This 1551 statue shows Emperor Carlo subduing a naked figure in chains. The naked victim of his Catholic majesty represents Protestants* — | |
* Christians in those days hadn’t managed to read the New Testament up to Luke vi, 26) — they were still stuck on the parts of the Bible where Jesus rages against abortion, homosexuals, and suggestive cheerleading, and urges his followers to attack their opponents by any means possible… er, if you can find some of these passages in your New Testament, could you let me know? They seem to be somehow missing from my old copy…
Tags: Editorial
“I was delighted too when I heard about the Nobel Prize, thinking as you did that my bongo playing was at last recognised. Imagine my chagrin when I realised that there had been some mistake they cited some marks I made on paper some 15 years ago and not one word about percussion technique. I know you share in my disappointment.”
Excerpts from RP Feynman’s letters, with link to a new book of them.
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I’m home again–and outdoors there are lilacs! I didn’t miss seeing them this year after all!
When we left home, on April 29, the lilacs in front of my house were covered with buds–blue, pink, lavender, mauve, and, well, just plain lilac-colored. I was sure our departure meant I’d miss all their flowers–last year, and I checked this, I blogged lilacs April 15.
But today, all Cambridge is still covered with lilacs, and rich with their perfume. |
Tags: Pilgrimages
Long ago, in a galaxy far away…that is, on April 30, 2005, in Princeton…
portraits of Frank Wilczek and David Gross were added to the gallery of Princetons Nobel Prize winners in Jadwin Hall.
I just posted my whole “roast” dinner speech; here’s some of it…
In 1973, when this work was being done, Frank and I used to admire those portraits of Nobel laureates, on our many long late-night strolls through the bowels of Princeton…
Jadwin Hall basement had that wonderful gallery, and it also had the blackboards full of wonderful gnomic writings by our fellow-midnight-wanderer John Nash. And if I think back to the younger self I was then, I would have been very pleased but not too surprised to know Frank would end up with his picture in Jadwin Hall. But I would have been darn surprised that John Nash got a Nobel Prize before Frank did!
Anyway, the rest of it is here…
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