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…I sorta wish I had done this: You’ve probably seen the story. It happened one day last week in Austin, but I was too busy to post anything about it: somebody reprogrammed a couple of those automated traffic warning displays with some rather more interesting messages. There is a story with a video at the…

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I’ve decided to take the suggestion that I repost an old Sunday Night Journal every week while I’m taking a long and possibly permanent break from writing it. Today being Super Bowl Sunday, I picked one occasioned by the 2004 Super Bowl: The Entertainment Industry and the Ratchet Effect. Speaking of the Super Bowl: I…

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Okay, Ryan, I finally gave Costello a fair look, courtesy of an Amazon $1.99 special. My old friend Robert, who once seemed to buy or somehow manage to hear every pop album, bought this when it came out. It was a time when I wasn’t hearing a lot of pop music, but I’d heard of…

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It might be more accurate to say I knew this would happen. At the very least I knew the odds of it happening were greater than the odds of it not happening. At the end of December I dropped my self-imposed commitment to writing something more substantial than a one- or two-paragraph blog post every…

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