The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  (Douglas Tilden's The Tired Boxer: you & me both, bro) Wow, the new computer set-up is all much, much more time-consuming & ir...

My computer died on Labor Day weekend. It was sudden but not unexpected. It was showing signs, warning signs, but of course I put off dealin...

I have been having major issues with Internet access, and I've been trying for nearly a month to get AT&T to resolve them; regular p...

The good news is that Computer Crisis 2016 is nearing an end. So I'm just going to lie low until I'm fully functional again, which s...

I started this blog on 12 February 2006 (at 4:05 PM Pacific time, if you want to be exact), so . . . it's been ten years. That's...

Not to sound too Harold Bloom here, but I recently re-read The Egoist and was wondering if I was the only person left who still reads Georg...

Seven years of reverberating , so happy blogaversary to me. Many thanks to all who visit. Please continue to do so! These are the BART ...

cherry blossoms drop and absence makes hearts fonder: haiku hiatus After posting at least one haiku a day for the past four years I felt...

A few weeks ago at First Congregational Church in Berkeley I heard Philharmonia Baroque ’s performance of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast; or...

The other day I received an e-mail from someone named Amanda Ameer with the subject line "Who is the best arts blogger in America?...

When I posted my August preview the other day I mentioned that whoever scheduled the Merola production of Barber of Seville was, to quote my...

Five years of reverberating. Deepest thanks to all visitors and readers, casual or constant, and particularly (and always) to V, who sugges...

So after being without a phone for several weeks, I called AT&T and they sent someone out to take a look. And now I have neither phone o...

I was tired enough last night so that I figured the perfect way to occupy myself was the rhythmic reformatting required to post, at long pos...

My statcounter hasn’t been that amusing lately, not that I blame you personally; lots of people just search for my name or reverberate hills...

Back in the early days, I had to trudge through ten miles of snow to find a previous blog entry. Now all you need to do is check out the Lab...

This is my favorite picture of myself ever ! The photo is courtesy of Civic Center's fabulous sfmike . In case you can't tell what t...

After one of my recent postings on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, artist Andrea Way e-mailed me and told me she had spent last year doing a painti...

I’ve been meme-tagged twice, first by Susan-being-kept-awake-by-opera and next by the Opera Tattler , so I guess I’d better cowboy up. This ...

I had been dimly aware of Meredith Monk for years, but only as an occasional comet I would read about streaking through distant avant-garde ...