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This is weirdly brilliant.
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Off and on for the past week I've realized that this song was playing in my head, or rather the chorus was, because that's all I could remember. At first I couldn't figure out why it was there, and then I realized that it was because of all the talk about India in the Rumer
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…And they, since theyWere not the one dead, turned to their affairs. That's Frost, from "Out, Out—", a poem you may know, and should know if you don't. It's one of his masterpieces. You can read it online at the Poetry Foundation. It's been on my mind for the past couple of days. I got word
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I don't even want to read the dadblamed thing.
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Not his personal ones, but the ones he painted, a series of fourteen on the seven virtues and seven vices. Janet is doing a series of posts on them, and they're fascinating. I have much less interest in the visual arts than in literature and music, and I rarely pay truly close attention to paintings.
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(Click on the image if you're having trouble reading the text.) That the drought has been a factor in the war is easy to believe. That the drought was caused by climate change is almost surely a much shakier assertion. I remember a conversation with a climate change affirmer in which she said something
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A week or two ago someone posted a news story on Facebook saying that it had the greatest headline ever written–something about a goat on a roof that only respected one man. I think this one is just as good: Tiger vomits on course, shoots 69 No doubt you realized, as I did, almost immediately
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Robert Randolph There was another guy on the Crossroads 2007 DVD who played a guitar that lies flat and was pretty amazing. This is worlds away from last week's Indian music. Surprisingly, I can't find the 2007 clip on YouTube, but here's one from the 2004 festival. He looks like he's having so damn
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Does anybody else ever see this annoyance? Now and then when I click on something on the comments page I find myself abruptly redirected to a full-screen advertisment titled something like "A message from our sponsors." It's a very crummy-looking ad that attempts to hold the screen for 30 seconds. I think it may be
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Schedule January 5: D’Anna – Percy January 12: Janet – Howard January 19: El Gaucho – Rushdie January 26: Rob G – Helprin February 2: Robert Gotcher – de Lubac February 8: godescalc – Sheckley February 15: Mac – P.G. Wodehouse February 22: Grumpy – Hans Urs von Balthasar March 1: Rob G – Ronald
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