May 2009
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This is where my wife found the cartoons from which she extracted the chicken signature: Flannery O’Connor, Cartoonist. The one with the signature is actually down in the comments. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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After complaining loudly that it was raining where I work but probably not where I live, twenty or so miles (about 30km) southeast, I came home tonight to see this: over three and a half inches (about 9cm) of rain in the rain gauge. Beautiful. Janet, you can keep the rest of the rain now.…
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My wife is now reading the Flannery O’Connor biography discussed here a week or two ago. Being a visual sort of person, she wanted very much to see the the signature used by (Mary) Flannery O’Connor on the cartoons she published in her college newspaper, a chicken formed of the initials MFOC, which the book…
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Amazon has posted this list. I would expect that the number one pick would be a great surprise to most people; it was to me. I do think it’s a great album, but greatest? Well, not really. More than that, I was beginning to mutter with outrage that only two albums by John Coltrane are…
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Luther Allison, ”Watching You,“ also known as ”Cherry Red Wine“: If you don’t stop drinking that bad wine, baby, even the grass that grows on your grave will be cherry red. I’m not sending a message to anyone, I just like the song. In fact it’s a good drinking song. It’s a little over ten…
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From “Why I Fired My Broker”, a piece in the May Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, in which he tries to figure out what the hell happened to his investments a few months ago: It turns out that my crucial mistake was believing that the brokers and wealth managers and cable-television oracles who make up the…
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