The naming of names
A confab with our redoubtable Internets Guru Nick Scholl just now resulted in two innovations. First, for those of you who want a quick and handy way to keep up with recent comments, there is now a comments feed button in the left navigation bar just beneath the display of the most recent mots from the cher public. You can click on it to see the last 20 comments, or else subscribe to the feed and keep up that way.
Second, and in the broad view surely far more important, there is now a term to refer to a single member of the cher public, other than “member of the cher public.” A hint:
Cherpube???
As a cher pube, I have another suggestion. Would it be possible to arrange things so that, when one clicks on a link on Parterre Box, the destination site opens up in a separate window? It would obviate overuse of my back button.
hndymn’s suggestion is I think best. It’s considered bad practice in web design to micromanage the user’s windows. La Cieca does use a “new window” option for the resources (link to Sirius, score, etc.) in chat postings because presumably readers will always want to open them that way. For everything else (if you want) please use CTRL-click (or the right-click menu on Windows).
it might be helpful to point out that if you hold down the CTRL key when you click on the link, it automatically opens in a new tab. The original page stays open in it’s own tab.
I am seriously loving the comments feed.
I could sing “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” tomorrow. It’s a question of color and tessitura and several tens of thousands’ worth of plastic surgery.
Suzuki say: “oh la mia testa!!”
First I could not find the comment feed for a long time, but I finally found it and it’s great. Many thanks. I will post the same text on another page of Parterre to see how it works.
I don’t understand the new comment feed feature. I posted two comments, one here in 6 above and the same one on the Elaine Strich/Domingo page shortly thereafter. Neither comment appears in the new comment feed. Maybe it takes some time for comments to appear there? Does one have to install something extra in the browser to use comment feed?
Quanto, the comments feed is how I found your post, so it is working for you. You don’t need to download anything extra. Just comment as you usually do.
Cher privates? (opposite of “cher public”?)
My first reaction was Cher pubic, maybe cher pussies, but that sounded too harsh
I thought “rhinestone-enhanced tummy tucks,” but it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
Well, we could be called RETTs or Cher Retts. It sounds very French.
I wouldn’t mind RETTS so much, but Cher RETTS makes me think of Tourette’s. Although, that might not be inapt in many cases.
Has anyone already posted a link to news of the BBC’s promotion of opera over the coming months?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/7061557/Dame-Kiri-Te-Kanawa-to-judge-Opera-X-factor.html
This quote is typical of the guff that ‘cultural leaders’ come out with in the UK:
Jan Younghusband, the BBC’s commissioning editor for music and events, said: “Opera is a serious art form, but it is also a great piece of entertainment and with the broad range of programmes the BBC will be delivering, I hope it will show that opera is great fun and bring it to a wider audience.
“Opera can communicate in a much broader way when you take it out on to the streets, so I hope that by showing how accessible it is, more people will come to it.”
“Opera can communicate in a much broader way when you take it out on to the streets, so I hope that by showing how accessible it is, more people will come to it.”
That kind of bullshit isn’t limited to Auntie Beeb, it’s rampant here in America too. What amazes me is that they never think it through: fine, someone gets their interest piqued by a “Boheme” on the widescreen in the plaza at Covent Garden. Are they they going to pony up the dosh to sit even in the gods at the ROH with those high prices? And the big, dirty secret about opera: it’s very very very time and effort intensive to get to the point where you can enjoy it. It’s one thing for punters to like Nessun Dorma, that doesn’t mean they’ll be queuing up for Pelleas et Melisande or whatever.