June 2013
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Weekend Music A poignant reflection by a young man whose ex-girlfriend has become famous.
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It’s pretty funny, since I’m the one who works in technology, that my wife is more interested in the new hand-held electronic toys than I am. Having procured for herself a bargain-priced iPad (from a relative who no longer wanted it), she passed her Kindle along to me. I don’t like reading on it anywhere…
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After my first day of school in Victoria, my mother was walking me home and I asked, "How long do I have to keep going there?" She said, "About 12 years." I burst into tears and was inconsolable for the rest of the day. from a blog which someone linked to on Facebook yesterday. Is…
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I've been going through the Sunday Night Journal pieces, picking the ones to be included in a book, and have just read this one, which is relevant to the conversation we've been having about where in the popular-to-high-art spectrum great movies lie. It's a review of The Third Man, which despite the intentions expressed in the…
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Smartphones, of course, are not the only crazy-making technology we have to contend with. One day last week I ate lunch at a sports bar of which one whole two-story wall was filled with TV screens, two huge and eight very large. That's a total of ten video screens, which were playing a total of…
Light On Dark Water 