The single most infamous song of the backward masking craze of the 1980s was surely Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” A message from the devil or a trick of the imagination? I’ll say the latter. But when we were kids, playing “Stairway to Heaven” backward on the record player was still a memorable way to […]
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What? No Bible at the Hard Rock Hotel? (Notes on Orlando Part 1)
Early this morning I returned from a few days family vacation at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. In the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous 1835 treatise Democracy in America written following his visit to the new world, I have compiled my own modest notes on my visit to Orlando. This first installment is inspired by our stay […]
