September 2012
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…to buy one of these? Go to the shopping page at space.com if you have to have one.
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But sometimes it's applicable. As of Monday, there will no longer be a daily newspaper in Mobile. I'll miss it, though it's been in very visible decline for several years, seeming to shrink in size and in depth of coverage almost from one day to the next. When I moved to Mobile in 1990, the…
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Weekend Music The strange thing about the mid-'60s English sound of The Clientele is that you think they sound a lot like somebody but you can't figure out exactly who. At least that's the way they affect me. I've written about them before, in 2007 and 2008. About this album, in fact. Although I have a…
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Heather King is the author of several memoirs, which I have not read but plan to, and of some shorter things which I have read and liked very much. Here is a video in which she walks to Mass in her Los Angeles neighborhood, talking as she goes about the place and about being Catholic. It's half…
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Yes, as I was saying, our racial problems are serious. But this scene is a nice reminder of how much things have improved. It could not have taken place fifty years ago. http://vp.mgnetwork.net/viewer.swf?u=98ca54682581102faba2001ec92a4a0d&z=KRG&embed_player=1 Alan Sealls is a local meteorologist whom I call the prince of weathermen–he's tremendously knowledgeable, and has this infectious enthusiasm for the subject.…
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Bah. Psycho Christian death cult. Obviously I'm prejudiced, but I didn't think it was a very good story even apart from the annoying specifics. The episode is called "Before the Frost," and is based on a novel of the same name. Aside from compliments to the actors and photographers, I really have only one good…
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk Some months ago I saw a copy of this priced at fifty cents or dollar at a used book sale, thought "I really should read that sometime," and bought it. Well, I was right about that, more or less: I should have read it a long time ago.…
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A photo gallery for the fall equinox, from the Hearts of Space radio program. "Fall" here only means somewhat less hot and humid, at least until well into October, but still, the light does fade. It also means this voice:
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Weekend Music I have a real find for you this week, if you don't already know the song. And if you know the song but not the video, you still have a treat coming. I'm still listening to one of my CDs full of random mp3s, and this song, as performed by Iain Matthews, came…
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I watched the second episode of season 3, The Dogs of Riga, a couple of nights ago. I think I liked the first one a little better. This one shared the atmosphere of the other, but is more gruesome and has more action and suspense–several people are tortured and murdered in a rather horrible way,…
Light On Dark Water 