The Looney Tunes purge, and the difficulty of collecting them all
Slate has a post about HBO Max pulling Looney Tunes cartoons from the service unexpectedly. Specifically they cut more than 250 cartoons from the service, from 1950 to 2004, including the classic “What’s Opera, Doc?” The thread on Hacker News led me down the rabbit hole (heh) to a...
“The Sound of Jacqueline du Pré” by Jacqueline du Pré (No. 70)
For nearly as long as I can remember, I’ve been a music junkie. The radio always seemed to be on the “oldies*” station when I was a young’un in the early 70s, and I got bit by the Beatlemania bug big time when I was a mere seven years...