Where to find a good online vendor for hard-to-find DVDs?
Any recommendations for an online vendor for out-of-print/never-released films on DVD, specifically classic musicals. I'm looking for copies of The Big Broadcast, The Big Broadcast of 1936 and The Big...
View ArticleWhere to find heavy wool pants that I can wear to the office?
I'm looking for good-quality black and dark gray winter wool dress pants that I can wear to my office. I have a better mental image than a verbal description, but pants that will look professional,...
View ArticleA Canticle for Leibowitz halfway done--what's my next read?
I'm halfway through A Canticle for Leibowitz and am enjoying it so much that I'm doling it out slowly. It reminds me in a lot of ways of another favorite book The Name of the Rose. I'd love...
View ArticleWhere to find Spanish popular music of the '20s and '30s?
I'm trying to find recordings, be they on CD or downloadable, of popular music from Spain of the 1920 and '30s. I'm hampered by the fact that I don't really know much about Spanish popular music--were...
View ArticleIs this a genuine text or a modern pastiche?
I recently ran across this text on a Virgil-centered site: The Secret History of Virgil by Alexander Neckam said to be based on a History by Gaius Asinius Pollio From a Manuscript in Old Royal Library...
View ArticleRecommendations for int'l packers/movers from NYC to South America?
I'm helping someone move from Queens, NYC to Bolivia, and I'd appreciate recommendations on reliable packers/movers that have international moving experience. This would be a small apartment's worth of...
View ArticleWhat is this UK radio broadcast called?
A long string of obscure messages. Almost like code. Said in a low voice, a hypnotic monotone. I though it might be the Shipping Forecast, but that has some sense to it, in that it uses recognizable...
View ArticleWhy does health club agreement waive my litigation rights?
The "health club" in my apt. building (some free weights, a few weight machines, treadmills, ellipticals) requires tenants to sign an agreement, the first two clauses of which involve litigation: The...
View ArticleWhere to find a history of the Purim Spiel?
I know that the Purim Spiel (or "shpiel") dates back to late medieval times, but I haven't been able to find any English-language theater or other histories that describe its origins and evolution, nor...
View ArticleiPad app for word-level embedding of files/comments plus Pencil writing?
I may be chasing an imaginary beast, but here goes: I'm looking for an app for my iPad Pro and all its screen real estate that will allow me to take text (whether copied in or written in the app) and...
View ArticleWhat is this mystery play?
Yesterday, I ran across the proverb "Great cry and little wool, as the devil said when he sheared the hogs," along with the explanation that this came from "an old mystery play, David and Abigail,...
View ArticleHow many backup layers to secure my hard-drive music files?
I have a newish iMac and three external hard drives of varying age and corresponding capacity (500 GB, 2 TB, 4 TB). I have ca. 2 TB of music divided between the latter two. What is the best way of...
View ArticleHow big a print can I make of a digital drawing?
I've used Procreate to make a number of drawings on my first-gen iPad Pro (using the "screen size" setting of 2,038 x 2,732), and I'd like to print tests of several of them in a large format (local...
View ArticleWhere online to view BBC adaptation of Oresteia - The Serpent Son?
The BBC produced, in 1979, a three-part version of Aeschylus'Oresteia trilogy titled The Serpent Son that featured Diana Rigg as Clytemnestra and Helen Mirren as Cassandra. I'd love to see it, but can...
View ArticleHow to diagnose/repair bad FLAC files?
I was trying to listen, on my iMac (10.14.1) to some FLAC files I'd gotten a while back and never tried. While some are fine, others stop 30 seconds in or fade out halfway through. I've tried playing...
View ArticleHow to fix battery corrosion in Walkman battery pack?
I opened up my Walkman Pro (WM-D6C) and found that, however long ago I'd last used it, a) I'd left batteries in the battery pack, and b) they corroded. I cleaned it up a bit and tried new batteries,...
View ArticleAnnotated French edition of Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval?
Late last night, I was researching, online, editions of Perceval ou le Conte du Graal and found one that had the original poem with ample footnotes, in French, on each page that explained individual...
View ArticleAny use for old Mac OS CDs?
Spring cleaning, and what to do with the stack of old MacOS CDs (OS 7.5, 8.5, 10) and assorted software (Word, Office, etc.) that I keep shoving out of sight. Most are on sale on eBay, and there are...
View ArticleThe most comfortable mens' pants...?
Nearly a year of not wearing office/dress pants as I work remotely has left me with the realization that the few casual pants I do own are unsuitable for sitting for long periods of time, and I'm tired...
View ArticleIs there a common dance language in TikTok videos?
TikTok videos show up periodically on my Tumblr TL, and a number of them feature people, usually women, dancing to some song or another. What's caught my eye about them is that there seems to be an...
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