July 2009
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What should have happened. I’ve always said there is something strange about tequila. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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When people in your town or state do something really dumb, the best thing to do is just roll with it. In that spirit, I present to you: the Crichton leprechaun. Perhaps you never heard of the Crichton leprechaun. Crichton is a neighborhood in Mobile. A few years ago, around St. Patrick’s Day, someone in…
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I finished reading it several days ago and am now, as time permits, skimming over it again, re-reading passages I’d marked, and thinking about it. I’m going to try to write something about it this weekend, so I invite anyone else who’s ready to discuss it to do so then. Two broad observations: (1) it…
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There’s a feeling I getWhen I look to the west… This is what I saw from my front yard last Thursday evening. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I’ve sometimes heard people of my generation joke about this phrase, as if everyone was familiar with it, and with drills held in schools where the children were taught to hide under their desks to protect themselves in a nuclear attack. I never knew the origin of the jokes, as these lessons apparently never reached…
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I suppose it’s inevitable that as one gets older the tendency to think that the world is declining gets stronger. I do try to keep that tendency in check, but sometimes the evidence is really pretty persuasive: for instance in the case of television journalism. I was never a great admirer of Walter Cronkite. Watching…
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I’ve really given it a fair shot. Over the past couple of months my wife and I have seen four of the most highly regarded Leone westerns: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Once Upon a Time in the West. And it’s not because…
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Antiaphrodite AKA Thornweaver has moved her blog to WordPress. It’s still called Fountains of Angelwine, or rather fountains of angelwine, and I’ve changed the sidebar link accordingly. This one is considerably more readable, I think. Also, you don’t have to register in order to comment. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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It’s hard to believe that The Dawn Patrol is going away. I’m not sure how long I’ve been a regular reader but it’s measured in years; perhaps five. Her archives go back to 2002 and I don’t think there was more than a year or two there when I first ran across it. I can’t…
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Three things I’ve run across in the past few days: xkcd hits the mark again. See if you recognize yourself in this. I did. Some years ago I read a short story by Ursula LeGuin (not by any means a favorite writer of mine) which really slammed this point home. I don’t remember the name…
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