The Fredösphere

I'm busy with composing today, so instead of sprinkling my scintillating wit about like some Disneyfied Tinkerbell, I'll send you to Mixolydian Mode, who found a fascinating article describing the influence of the Eucharist on the Japanese tea ceremony, and to Alex Ross' long post with insights (at the end) on advertising and the high-low cultural divide, but which begins with effusive praise for Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, which must be deserved:  judging from her photo, her goodness causes beams of otherworldly radiance to shoot from her armpits, and Daniel Wolf, [no, I'm not saying Daniel Wolf is also shooting from Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's armpits; this latest "and" connects Wolf to Mixolydian Mode and Alex Ross -- get it?] who warns against overuse of  the ol' "justify this note!" mentality in composition pedagogy, with an illustration from mystery fiction.