Life in the Palace

Remember when Uday and Qusay Hussein bought the farm last July? They had a reeeeeaaally nice pad on a hilltop overlooking Mosul. That pad is now my Carnegie Hall. On most evenings, when the work is winding down, I haul my fiddle or mandolin into the massive foyer and let it echo. Ah, acoustic catharsis. I'll have to subscribe to Audioblog to give you a dose of expat pickin' and fiddlin'.

A book I've been working through is T.Z. Lavine's "From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest." Heady stuff, but well-written. I always wondered what Descartes dualism was all about...