January 2015
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Lyle Lovett has made some fine music over the years, and I haven't heard all of it, but I'm doubtful that he's produced another album as consistently good as this one, his first second. I had forgotten how good it is until yesterday, when I listened to it on the way over and back to…
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At least two people recommended this movie in a discussion here a month or two back, and I watched it over this past weekend. It is excellent, and I add my recommendation to Janet and Rob's. Among other things, it's a tour de force of acting. Unless there was a glimpse of someone in the…
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Except diehard loyalists of the incumbent party. Nor should they, it seems. I suppose most of us, or at least those of us who aspire to be Informed Citizens, think of it as something we should pay attention to, but really have no interest in, and will be entirely unaffected by, except for a certain…
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That boy who, with his father, wrote a book describing his experience of heaven after a near-fatal accident has now says the story was false. These return-from-the-dead stories appear from time to time, and I usually find them both intriguing and puzzling. But they aren't all equally plausible, and this one struck me as less…
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I've been watching the 35th Annual Blues Music Awards, recorded a while back from PBS, in segments of fifteen minutes or so every day while I eat my lunch. This is taken from that broadcast. I had never heard of Doug MacLeod before Tuesday. "Protest songs," as they used to be called in the '60s, generally…
Light On Dark Water 