November 2008
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Referring to people as “humans,” as in the sentence “humans have always created art.” I take it to be one of the many constructs which English speakers have come up with to avoid the gendered nature of our language; in the past one might have said (and many of us would still say) “man has…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 16, 2008 So we made a quick overnight trip for my uncle Ed’s funeral, leaving here on Friday morning, driving 350 miles (560km) to Athens, Alabama, leaving there on Saturday afternoon and driving the 350 miles back, arriving around 11pm. I’ve gotten so accustomed to the warm and colorless autumn…
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Ok, I’m going to confess a guilty pleasure, because I really ought to give these folks a bit of publicity, at least, for all the enjoyment they’ve given me over the years. The guilty pleasure is what’s variously called ambient or space music, or, more bluntly, background music—except that it isn’t only background music, because…
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Why is this so dang funny? Or, if you don’t think it is, why not? (Hat tip to Will.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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There’s a guy up the road in Spanish Fort, a veteran who’s very active in veterans’ affairs, who had a series of “Veterans for McCain” signs on this building (which I think he owns) during the campaign. This appeared the day after the election and I stopped and took a picture of it. Not a…
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I’m not talking about the famous talking horse, but about my uncle, James Edwin Horton, known to his family and many of his friends by the name his farmhands used, Mister Ed. He died this past Saturday, and today is Veteran’s Day, an appropriate time for me to mention him. He was my father’s brother,…
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Before this game recedes too far into history, I want to make it a matter of public record that a little of the credit for Alabama’s victory goes to me. I contributed by not watching the overtime period. When Leigh Tiffin’s last-second field goal attempt was blocked, I left the room and waited for my…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 9, 2008 In the past I’ve done a few posts in which I gave capsule reviews of the movies I’d seen since the last such post. I think the last one was almost a year ago, but I know I’ve posted about a number of specific movies since then—for instance,…
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Procol Harum, “Nothing That I Didn’t Know,” from the partly great album Home. Fairly poor sound, but listenable. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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This is really sweet: From 52 to 48. (Obama got 52% of the popular vote—actually I think it’s up to 53% now.) We love y’all, too. A 48-hour thought on the election: last night my wife and I were both late heading for home and decided (via mobile phone—how times have changed) to meet and…
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