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22 Jun 2007, 4:51 am
Have I said this before? I figure that on my 70th birthday I garnered two new privileges: I can call any woman "dear."I can wear socks with shorts and sandals. It's amazing how many women actually like being called "dear." And as one who never met a non-beautiful woman, I am happy to oblige. As to the other matter, apparently, George W. Bush and I have at last found something we on which we can agree (link). [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 9:49 pm
When I was first living on my own and earning the princely sum of $37 a week, I decided to tone up my squalid existence with a bit of classical music. I bought three LP records: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet; Mozart's Horn Concertos, and somebody's (Toscanini's?) rendering of "Wagner's Greatest Hits." I can't imagine what prompted me (pretty much untutored) to make such an auspicious beginning. Is there anything more affable than the… [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 6:09 am
Also en route to Chez Buce: weekend guests, so I undertake to whip up a batch of Paula Wolfert's [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 10:19 pm
Buce disported themselves last week, lounging about in a regime of compulsory idleness. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 9:46 am
with any literary or other of my posts that even remotely have a touch of the fine arts, thanks to Buce [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 7:27 am
Went out to turn the compost after lunch this afternoon. Man, I have never seen so many worms in my life. All complaining about overcrowding and illegal immigrants. I told them it just made the polity stronger. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 9:40 am
Buce reminds me of the story of Barack Obama's wife--how, in their dating days, she sent him out [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 7:59 am
Another hat tip to Buce for pointing out the story. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 9:28 am
Buce points out, there must be two CNN types in ignorance here: one, the talking head, and the other [read post]
28 May 2007, 2:28 am
#039;re comin' in the door.So goes the old vaudeville song, and so it feels this morning at Chez Buce [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 10:30 pm
learned of it only last year and saw it for the first time last night on the big screen at Il Teatro Buce [read post]
4 Apr 2007, 6:49 am
As Buce's Wichita bureau points out, there's a rich irony here: as a device for getting out [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 2:48 pm
Has there ever been a more unreservedly joyous piece of music than Rossini's Il barbiere di Sivigliaâ€â [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 10:21 pm
From our perch, they seemed just about as big as the HDTV in the Buce living room. [read post]
16 Nov 2008, 2:46 am
[Italics mine-Buce]Mark Perry, who is somewhere to the right of Ivanhoe Bruce Bartlett on this one, points [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 7:47 am
Buce will not be inquiring: Prince Bandar keeps his kitchen in the basement, but for us it is the center [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 7:01 pm
Here's Bob in an academic but non-bankrupt mood:I recommend Straight Man by Richard Russo because Buce [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 5:15 pm
Getting ready for tonight's PBS special on health care (cf. link)--somebody must have thought of this, but I haven't seen it elsewhere so I will make the point now. That is: when we talk about "health care," we are talking about two rather different problems, not solvable in the same way (if solvable at all). One is the problem of catastrophic loss. Only the unlucky few of us will run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of health care bills. It's the kind of risk that can… [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 1:32 am
Buce suggests another possibility: it is not the moderns but the ancients that are less well trained [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 8:17 pm
truly afflicted from the merely seriously annoying (e.g., my colleagues at a faculty meeting, or the Buce [read post]
