Archives for April 8, 2009

I’ll be appearing today on Soundcheck, WNYC’s daily talk show about music, to discuss my recent Wall Street Journal column on booing with John Schaefer, the host, and Ben Zimmer, a linguist who has studied the origins of the custom.
Soundcheck airs each afternoon at two p.m. EDT. You can listen to WNYC via terrestrial radio by tuning to 93.9 FM. Go here for more information on today’s episode or to listen live via streaming audio on your computer.

Tex Avery’s “King-Size Canary,” released in 1947:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

“‘Marriage’: this I call the will that moves two to create the one which is more than those who created it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra