Ain’t no riot like a classical music riot.
A classical music riot is violent, disorderly behavior that occurs upon (usually) the premiere of a controversial piece of classical music. via en.wikipedia.org And it turns out there have been at least 10 of them. This one really got them going: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring#Premiere
The Hunger Games Trilogy
After a bunch of recommendations, I read The Hunger Games trilogy. These are Young Adult books, and they are violent, bloody, disturbing … and also impossible to put down. The books really are pretty brutal. They make the deaths in Harry Potter look light by comparison, and the Hunger Games heroine Katniss makes Twilight's Bella Swan look pretty weak too. But it's framed in such a way that it pulls you in rather than drives you away, which is an impressive feat considering the subject matter. And the author lets her characters wrestle with the morality surrounding the violence. I don't Read more…
The Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
via michaelyingling.com What a hilarious idea for a search engine. And handy.
Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly …
… but mostly I want to talk about The Good. Yesterday I "interviewed" Andrew Fry for City Club's lunch program about social media. I thought Andrew talked about some great topics and his story-telling was really great. An all around great program. A lot of the topic was dedicated to the above questions: what's good, bad, and ugly, about social media. And that makes a lot of sense for a 45 minute presentation. But to me, the good waaayyy outweighs the bad. Since I didn't delve into it yesterday (and I shouldn't have, it was Andrew's program, I was just Read more…
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