tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post3028943523906718592..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Friday MiscellaneaBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-80943366042939986172015-11-14T16:31:52.710-06:002015-11-14T16:31:52.710-06:00Vanessa Mae was the first "classical" ar...Vanessa Mae was the first "classical" artist that I can recall that really sold herself as a sex-object. And still showing everyone else how it is done! Let it not be said that classical artists run very far behind Miley Cyrus in shameless exploitation.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-20247486561020285082015-11-14T15:50:00.636-06:002015-11-14T15:50:00.636-06:00I don't mean to turn the comments section of y...I don't mean to turn the comments section of your fine blog into a cheap porn forum but what exactly is Vanessa Mae trying to hide? Is the producer trying to corner the pedophile market? These people are shameless!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-7862833226582456962015-11-14T08:00:03.751-06:002015-11-14T08:00:03.751-06:00Thanks, Christine and let me extend my heartfelt s...Thanks, Christine and let me extend my heartfelt sympathies to you and everyone in France.<br /><br />Stepping back for a moment, this whole climate change kerfuffle is extremely perplexing. There are all sorts of people and fora where it is simply taken for granted that there is no significant disagreement or controversy over anthropogenic climate change and its causes and solutions. But turn around and there seem to be as many places where you can read the exact opposite: a huge number of scientists do not agree, the amount of human influence on climate change is very unclear and there is an enormous amount of political pressure promoting the first position and denying the second. So I guess my question is, who do these scientists work for? If they are all employed by politically-funded institutions then I'm not sure they are unbiased.<br /><br />Twenty or perhaps even ten years ago I wouldn't have seen this as very controversial, but every day I read something that makes me more doubtful. That article I linked in the miscellanea was from the Nation!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-65263443563962241752015-11-14T01:45:58.121-06:002015-11-14T01:45:58.121-06:00By the way I recently taught a group of scientists...By the way I recently taught a group of scientists including a few climatologists.I thought a discussion of the accuracy of anthropomorphic climate change would keep them busy for at least an hour. Alas they informed me that there is no scientific controversy on the subject, only a political one. And that was that.Three minutes. I did consider informing them that they were victims of a plot but I was seriously outnumbered and under informed.Christine Lacroixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006109075551438090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-86957969441707531722015-11-14T01:37:52.396-06:002015-11-14T01:37:52.396-06:00That was a great Friday miscellanea, Bryan. Just t...That was a great Friday miscellanea, Bryan. Just the antidote to the news in France this Saturday morning.<br />I found the story of the violin player falling off his chair hilarious. I would be ashamed of myself but years ago I was paid to participate on a study done at U California on sense of humor related to IQ and personality. We underwent a battery of tests and then were asked to evaluate jokes on how funny they were. I noticed with horror that the jokes that had people falling down, getting crushed, sucked into tornados,blown out of airplanes were the ones that tickled my funny bone the most. I refuse to think about what that means or feel guilty about it since it's certainly outside of my control. In the meantime I suffer from severe stage fright at all live performances for fear that one of the performers might do one or all of the above.Christine Lacroixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006109075551438090noreply@blogger.com