Thursday, November 12 2009
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
A preponderance of headless corpses and eccentric scientists means that this is certainly a macabre book, but the silliness of the pseudo-sciences it debunks makes it more entertaining than unnerving.
Friday, June 8 2007
On Lexus, Hairapy, and the Scherzo from Beethoven’s Ninth (with a nod to Kubrick)
By making Beethoven's Ninth an image of our humanity, we have conditioned ourselves to filter out all of those elements in the music that make it a worthwhile (if troubling) listening experience.
