If a Tree Falls in the Forest.... According to Daniel Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton, 2006, $24.95), if there's no one to ...

Bart, Homer, Greeks, and U.S./us Here's a Reuters filler from today's L.A. Times , "We Know Bart, but Homer's Greek to Us....

Book Review: Light, Freedom & Song I sent this off to The Blanket ; a shorter version I posted on Amazon. A sample of my lit crit for th...

No Wonder This Review Quotes Beckett! This discouraging summary in the Sunday L.A. Times Book Review , August 13, of someone arguably more d...

Harper's Magazine Sept. 2006: My treadmill tidbits Forcing myself to mount the hamster wheel, I tell myself at least I can read a magazi...

Carraigín, tae, nó mise ? Leo brought home from Trader Joe's the other day a box of decaf Irish Breakfast Tea . Precisely what I was cur...

"Sam Beckett's Secrets of Business & Branding Success" So promises Stephen Brand in Business Horizons, March-April, excerp...

Most Oppressed People Ever, or The Other White Meat With "The Sopranos" apparently winding down to its last season whenever, who...

Top 15 "LPs" & Best/Worst CDs 2005 With a Corgi on my lap and a half-poodle at my bare feet, I try to type. I provide here a s...

My Blog. Welcome to it. This is a blog. I also put the same profile on eBlogger. http://www.myspace.com/fionnchu See my Amazon.com revie...