in memoriam

nizza & armiliato's 'mia gelosa'

the miracle season

okay -- here's what's going to happen

the indians won't lose another game, for the rest of the season

then they're going to get swept in the first round of the playoffs

but then there's a great outcry from all over the world -- because during their three-month winning streak, they'd become the darlings of baseball -- of the whole country,...and beyond -- making cleveland the cinderella city -- it was like in the movie 'a field of dreams' -- people came from all over the world, to witness this...miracle -- so, a great uproar...descended on major league baseball, from sports fans, from all over the world -- this miracle cannot end like this -- it was a tsunami,...beyond the capacity of any force to resist

so baseball decided to let the indians play the loser of the other series -- they did, and they won the rest of the games, and became champions

they made a federal case of it -- all the losers -- protested to major league baseball -- then to the legal courts -- the case went all the way up to the supreme court -- the conservatives on the court decided that the rules could not be changed, in the middle of the game -- the liberals said it isn't fair -- it isn't fair that there's only one champion -- everybody should be a champion -- all should get a trophy

but as the court was divided, 4-4, it was a hung jury -- indians win

look what rajai can do

we know, now, that he can juggle, over his shoulder, running, full blast, in the opposite direction, but look what he did, a couple of years ago -- especially,...what he did from second

the greatest

he was my hero, from the time i was a little boy in baghdad

churchill and his 'black dog'

an article by a psychiatry professor, on 'winston churchill and his 'black dog' of greatness'

dessay & calleja, in lucia sextet

explication of the sextet, from the royal opera house, covent garden