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…I sorta wish I had done this: You’ve probably seen the story. It happened one day last week in Austin, but I was too busy to post anything about it: somebody reprogrammed a couple of those automated traffic warning displays with some rather more interesting messages. There is a story with a video at the…
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I’ve decided to take the suggestion that I repost an old Sunday Night Journal every week while I’m taking a long and possibly permanent break from writing it. Today being Super Bowl Sunday, I picked one occasioned by the 2004 Super Bowl: The Entertainment Industry and the Ratchet Effect. Speaking of the Super Bowl: I…
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Okay, Ryan, I finally gave Costello a fair look, courtesy of an Amazon $1.99 special. My old friend Robert, who once seemed to buy or somehow manage to hear every pop album, bought this when it came out. It was a time when I wasn’t hearing a lot of pop music, but I’d heard of…
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It might be more accurate to say I knew this would happen. At the very least I knew the odds of it happening were greater than the odds of it not happening. At the end of December I dropped my self-imposed commitment to writing something more substantial than a one- or two-paragraph blog post every…
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From Douglas Woodruff, in Evelyn Waugh and His World: [Waugh] said that one of the particular pleasures of being a father was when the children believed what they were told, and he would point to the golf links near Dursley and expound how it was a punishment ground or exercise yard in which poor colonels…
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…reading the newspaper online in 1981. Then you'll probably want to try to forget. This comes via Will, who observes: “The caption ‘Owns Home Computer’ is the funniest part. Who knew that those Internets would become so powerful? Now we just have to figure out what all these young people with their FaceTubes and GoogleyPods…
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This is a collection of reminiscences of Waugh by various people who knew him, edited by David Pryce-Jones. I checked it out of the college library many months ago, read about half of it, got a bit bored with it, and put it aside for a while. But since I’m a staff member and am…
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This is a slightly dishonest post, because apart from a few graceful short stories I’ve read nothing of Updike. So I can’t say we’ve lost a giant of literature etc. Mainly I just want to quote this remark of his, which appears in a Washington Post obit (hat tip to Clairity), on the subject of…
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Via Will, an amazing ginormous pannable-zoomable picture of the inauguration. Play with it and you'll be amazed at how much detail you can see. For instance, if you knew someone sitting on the top row of the seats sort of directly across from you, in front of those trees, you'd be able to identify them—maybe…
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An interesting and sometimes amusing set of reactions at Crunchy Con. (I think it is, as you know.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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