“We will be lending African musicians to U2 to try to refurbish their sound to satisfy the urgent and growing needs for diversionary entertainment at a time of crisis in the global music and financial sectors.”
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John Adams on concert coughing
→ Read moreSo the loud cough, most likely completely unconscious, is a way of saying “I can’t handle this, folks. You all may be crowding round Mahler’s deathbed for one final intimate confession.
The connoisseur of prostitution
Likely no good economist, surely a bloody good writer. Gems:
3. “You lie to two people in your life; your partner and the police. Everyone else gets the truth. → Read more
My first (and last) public karaoke performance
…represents the validation of my long held opinion that I have no comparative advantage whatsoever in this area. My team partner for this impromptu exercise, Ian Walker, among other things the current editor-in-chief of Labour Economics, performed rather reasonably, but there was no chance to ultimately rank decently among the brave competitors– my colleague economists from the Aarhus School of Business, some of them natural born karaoke stars– precisely because of teaming up with yours truly.
→ Read more Oysters
→ Read moreYou start with an oyster. You put it inside a large olive. Then you put the olive inside an ortolan (a wee bird called ‘the garden bunting’, in case you are among the underprivileged), and the ortolan inside a lark, and so on and so on.