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  1. 8 days ago on Doonesbury

    iTunes provided an interesting step along the way of this evolution. For prices comparable to those of the prevailing physical medium of CDs and to the inflation-adjusted prices of vinyl, consumers could believe everyone got fair value from the deal. Meanwhile, an industry in panic over declining CD sales could celebrate an arrangement that looked to the consumer like a purchase but looked to the industry like a license. And artists…well, as always, they took what deals they could get to reach an audience, and the most successful could continue to do quite well in that system. They might even be able to afford to hire someone to manage their MySpace.

  2. 8 days ago on Doonesbury

    Some years before the standoff with Spotify, Swift initiated a standoff with Apple, saying she was speaking up not just for herself but other artists. Nobody, except maybe the EU and China, wins standoffs with Apple. Swift won.

  3. 8 days ago on Doonesbury

    “What is Jeff Bezos doing lately for the public?” Sometimes the material writes itself.

  4. 19 days ago on Doonesbury

    e.g. The String Cheese Incident (I actually had one of those, and it cost me a car. But the details are both “too ludicrous for words” and “too offensive for depiction.”)

  5. 19 days ago on Doonesbury

    Your comment reminds me of the likelihood that Trudeau’s publisher, and only his publisher, makes decisions about access to commenting.

  6. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

    Some years back, I read that “Highway to Hell” topped the charts for European funerals.

  7. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

    You studied Sanskrit where, exactly?

  8. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

    Dark, no burn: fog. Still white, no burn: snow.

  9. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

    As already noted, literary convention, which continued more or less in that form through the 19th century and into the earlier 20th. The various crises in faith since then, and lessening interest in classic Greek and Roman mythology, leaves us with more or less empty linguistic references to the figures of Christian myth, and new usages such as “higher power”, “the universe”, “the Goddess”, and “Gaia”.

  10. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

    Decades ago, a German magazine ran a photo of the damage from the bombing of a US embassy—as it was described here. The embassy was huge. It was perfectly plausible that the damage in the photo was confined to what the magazine casually described as “the CIA wing.”