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Semantics and Pragmatics is a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language. While the journal isn’t focused directly on computational methods, they expect to also publish material relevant to philosophers, psychologists and computer scientists. Hopefully it will be more than the occasional submission that is of interest to CS people. I’m looking forward to the first issue.
So I’ve mentioned Slumber Party before. They are a detroit girl band (femme doom rock) and are freakin awesome. Seriously, I can’t get enough. They are just brilliant to me. So anyhow, I saw they had a Christmas album with 2 unnamed songs. According to the website, it’s a limited edition of 50 hand made single CDs. Sure enough, the CD arrived wrapped up like a Christmas present and the CD looks hand-painted, but I can’t be sure. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
The first song on the CD was decent, but not really special in the way I look for from Slumber Party. The second song made the whole CD worth it. A quirky combination of spoken lyrics, a childrens choir, 50’s harmonies, and haunting female vocals — it’s my new favorite Christmas song.
