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David Byrne Journal: 09.21.2008: On the Road Again. I know that this post was primarily about the new show and not about David Byrne’s Life in the Bush of Hampton Roads, but I can’t resist the pointer:
In Newport News, a group of us biked to the beach on the banks of the James River — [...]

My copy of the Virginia Glee Club’s 1972 record, A Shadow’s On the Sundial, arrived today. I haven’t listened to much of it yet, but a quick scan of the first few tracks on the first side and a review of the liner notes (transcribed) provide the following observations:

This is a completely different group than [...]

Editor’s note: The Virginia Glee Club’s 1972 record A Shadow’s on the Sundial was recorded to commemorate the group’s 100th anniversary and to raise funds for its 1972 European tour. The credits and liner notes are below. Judging from the notes, the album may have originally been called Songs of the University of Virginia, after [...]

Continuing this week’s back to school theme (hey, in the fall I get a little nostalgic for UVA), I did a little more spelunking through the broken Cavalier Daily archives and turned up a review of the Glee Club’s 1972 European tour. Check out Around the Western World in Eighteen Days: A Glee Club Diary, [...]

Editor’s note: This article, originally published in the May 12, 1972 issue of the Cavalier Daily, gives a summary of the Virginia Glee Club’s 1972 European Tour. The original source was extracted from the raw XML file of the issue in the UVA library’s electronic archive.
Around The Western World In Eighteen Days: A Glee Club [...]

I had a nice walk tonight from the docks at the end of King Street in Alexandria, Virginia to my hotel. Or, it was nice for the first three blocks until the heavens opened up. Man, I forgot what thunderstorms in June are like here. I made it to the hotel, drenched, and rested a [...]

Google started baking some mashups into the main Google Maps interface earlier this week. As a Wikipedia editor, the one that intrigued me was the ability to hover over a feature on a map and click through to a related Wikipedia article. The question I had was, how do I change my article so that [...]

It was an amazing weekend. I spent the last half of last week dying of some sort of cold/allergy–it was so bad that I think I was running a fever a couple of nights. But on Saturday morning I could move again. And it was a good thing: since it rained the whole previous weekend, [...]

I started thinking about my days in the Virginia Glee Club a few weeks back. Probably because of my imminent 10-year reunion. Then out of the blue I got an email from a current Club member and Clubhouse resident who had found my page about my time in the group.
I reprint my reply to him [...]