1. I’ve found pretty much the best use of Photoshop outside of True American Dog: LiarTown USA, source of this potential bestseller:

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2. That Radiolab about Beethoven tempi (I have to use the right plural; I was a music major) I posted last week turned me on to Glenn Gould playing Beethoven sonatas. (Here’s all of them in a four-hour chunk; Spotify has them, too.) Glenn’s the man! And this quote is so true:

“Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas
and listen to them for ten years.”

William F. Buckley