by Rhiannon Paine | Dec 16, 2011 | Artists & the Arts, General, Just for Fun
Great works of literature can be discouraging for the novice writer. You labor for months to create something as enduring as Persuasion or Middlemarch, all the while suspecting that you’re not going to make it with your own book, Bread-Pudding Days. But even the...
by Rhiannon Paine | Dec 8, 2011 | General, Speaking Out
It’s official: austerity is the new black. Yes, austerity is what you’ll be wearing for spring, unless you’re in the 1%, and Google Analytics tells me that only one of my readers falls into that category. (Hi there, super-rich person! Are you looking for a good cause?...
by Rhiannon Paine | Dec 3, 2011 | General, Signs of the Times
It takes a spy to catch a spy. That’s how developer Trevor Eckhart found a “mole” application that’s installed on smartphones, can’t be turned off, and logs the numbers you dial, the URLs you visit, even the content of your text messages. Less logging is done for...
by Rhiannon Paine | Nov 18, 2011 | General, Signs of the Times, Speaking Out
In Middlemarch, Edward Casaubon spends his life searching for the Key to all Mythologies. Another great work of literature, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, concerns the quest for the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Key? Meaning? Are you kidding me...
by Rhiannon Paine | Nov 11, 2011 | Artists & the Arts, General, Just for Fun
The New York Met’s current production of Wagner’s Siegfried has got me thinking: how would a blog post by the man himself turn out? Maybe something like this? My crappy childhood Hello everyone. My name is Siegfried. No last name. Just Siegfried. I was...
