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TypePad is doing more hardware and software upgrades tonight beginning at 8pm Central Time (the email says CST but it's probably CDT). They don't say how long they expect it to last but I assume a few hours or so. I gather they won't necessarily be offline during the whole period. But if you can't
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Week 1: Meet the Beatles (The Beatles) Week 2: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (The Pogues) Week 3: Waving, Not Drowning (Rupert Hine) Week 4: Fragments of a Rainy Season (John Cale) Week 5: Rain Dogs (Tom Waits) Week 6: SHEL Week 7: Something Else (The Kinks) Week 8: Hi-Fi In Focuse (Chet Atkins) Week 9: Slow Turning (John Hiatt) Week 10: Swagger (The Blue
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The term “global village” was apparently coined by Marshall McLuhan to describe the effects of world-wide electronic communication, but if McLuhan was as brilliant a man as he is reputed to be–his works are among the many which I have never gotten around to reading, so I don’t know–then it was surely a moment of
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…how they ship shipping materials? I was at the local UPS facility a week or two ago when a guy came in pushing a long cart from which he unloaded all the stuff you see in the windows here, and more. I wonder what it costs to ship a bag of plastic peanuts that's a
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…anyone who uses the word "era" for a period of less than a century will be fined. Anyone who defines an era by reference to a celebrity will be jailed for 30 days. For I am merciful.
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Well, I owe Jane and k.d. a bit of an apology. In a comment on that recent post about Leonard Cohen's death, I described this song thusly: "…a duet of which the lyrics were mostly the names of female saints. It's probably meant as a feminist-lesbian thing, but whatever, it's really beautiful." Of the three
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I have a cold which includes a very sore throat. But it's almost worth it, because it lowers my voice to a point where I can sing along with Leonard Cohen.
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I'm seeing ads that say "Underwear has evolved." I don't like the sound of that at all.
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Something bad seems to have happened to it even as it was composing its comment. It's like those movie scenes where the killer catches up with someone just as he's phoning for help: Hello! This post could not be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my good abdaeefbeadcdaea I was initially flattered
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A group of young politically-minded Catholics have set out to reform the nation with a combination of traditionalist faith and socialist politics. Here's their "Tradinista" manifesto. I wish them well. I really do, although in my opinion the socialist direction is the wrong way to go. I think that sort of movement would only further empower
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