Edits, RSS and You

(As excised from the previous post.)

Edit: Do those of you subscribing, all three of you, get repeated notices for posts, one for every time I edit them? If so, I'd best type each of them a couple of days ahead, for good measure.

Edit 2: No, seriously, I feel very guilty now, if I'm making your readers go berserk. Or worse yet, if they don't update, and you end up reading the unedited versions of the posts. Hm. Distressing.

Edit 3: Firstly, I shrunk the edits. Secondly, I think I've gotten the hang of the spacing in this interface, at last. Significantly fewer edits predicted, regardless of what's going on in your readers.

Edit 4: The edits won't shrink, so I'm moving them to a different post.

"...Bearing Gifts"

Heads-up on the movies, tonight, again.

Unfortunately still no Dark Knight, but "Bad Company" on the television menu: Chris Rock trying to act, (failing miserably), twin to a murdered secret agent, Anthony Hopkins the CIA mentor that trains "Kevin" (Rock) for the act. Pleasant flick, nothing more.

But: The terrorists who, according to the motley script, were ultimately planning on unleashing nuclear terror on New York via Grand Central Station, part of a large international network, they weren't Middle Eastern, as is the tradition for these films.

No. After one of them, a tall, sinister looking bald man called his accomplice to verify codes for a portable nuclear device, the grand revelation (to the viewer in the know) was made:

They were Greek, the nasty buggers.

For once, the script is on my side.

A Personal Tip

Even though there's very little content in it right now, anyway, I'd like to point your attention to the fact that the most insufferably obnoxious posts in the Sorcerer are usually tagged "Personal".

Therefore, if you want to sample only the (incidental, if not accidental) post of occasional serious commentary, the kind of which has obviously yet to appear in the blog, by all means filter out anything with the "Personal" tag on it. Including the present post.

Thank you.

Period Rabbit & Omelet

So I call my parents, today, and catch them eating lunch. "I'm listening to the Trout", I mention - the Schubert quintet: "we're eating rabbit, here, and some omelet", responds my father.

I'll keep that in mind if I compose a quintet one day. I'm sure the "Rabbit & Omelet" will be just as popular as the Trout; if not more!

On other news, I've had a wonderful morning listening to parts of the recent Anima Eterna Beethoven sympony cycle, Jos van Immerseel conducting, truly a (period) delight.

And I say this as someone who is not particularly fond of "historically informed" (period performance) Beethoven interpretation.

 Yet this cycle "delivers the goods", as they say...

Finally, I at last acquired a very persistently elusive 1964 recording of the "Heroic" Polonaise (in A flat) by, of course, Frédéric Chopin, courtesy of the late and great Artur Rubinstein.

 Which I admit was available via an easy-to-get RCA release all along. But I wish record labels would be wiser in promoting their wares, repeating the same wish every time I see another bland recording of "crowd pleaser A" get the spotlight instead of the real treasures in the respective label's catalogue. End of rant.

[Lots of editing, as is the custom.

Make what you will of the content, before it changes again!]

[Ouch. What a typo! Thankfully it's gone now. Then you ask why I keep editing those posts; or you don't ask, but I answer regardless...]

Old Republic, New Frontiers (TM)

It seems I missed the official confirmation of the Bioware/Lucasarts/EA (Knights of the) Old Republic MMO. Just as well, as it won't exactly be going gold next week, anyhow.

Still, it's Bioware's name "on the tin". If Mass Effect is to be of any indication of their work's current level, I'd say the prospects are good.

Colour me interested, EALucaBiowarts!

Now if only they could avoid trivialising Jedi and the Force, under the excuse of their great numbers...

But I'll withhold my scepticism until more details surface, I promise.